The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky.<p>The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google subdomain and set it to "always open in this container" with three or four clicks. The other <i>major</i> issue is that there's no way to have links outside those domains open outside the container, so whenever I click a link on Gmail that goes to Github, Github opens in the Google container and I always have to copy/paste the address to a new tab.<p>Fixing those two annoyances would make the built-in containers feature amazing. Maybe I should file a feature request.<p>EDIT: I have filed a feature request: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621276" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621276</a>
So Firefox sent me an email with a title "Get Facebook Out". I tried to unsubscribe, but that forces me to login first, for which I don't remember the password. So I had to reset the password, and then unsubscribe from their "tips" emails.<p>Shouldn't Firefox offer a one click unsubscribe botton?
I don't know what is up with mozilla/firefox. I'm still using firefox but not because I like it, only because the alternatives are worse. I signed up for a firefox account almost right after they were announced. At the time and multiple times since I've unsubscribed from "all" their emails because I'm not interested in them. They just either invent a new list and auto-subscribe me to it or they just ignore my preferences and spam me anyway. Today I got an email from mozilla telling me to "Get the 'F' out." So I did, I reset my password, logged into their service, unsubscribed (again!!) from all their lists, and then deleted my account. Yes, I was forced to reset my password and log in just to unsubscribe.<p>Not mentioned in the changelog for this release is that in the URL bar, when I start typing and the suggestion list drops down, the first result is now highlighted in an eye-destroying bright green (even in dark mode, which I'm using).
I'd love to hear if they made any progress in tracking down the 'interesting WebRender bug' from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359574" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359574</a>
The 74 release says "New: Facebook container..."<p>Do they mean the facebook container addon will come as standard, pre-installed with 74 or do they only mean they updated the addon? Little bit confused, feels a bit strange if they meant the later (under the new firefox release), but a at the same time when I updated 73 to 74 I could not see any traces of the "facebook container" in 74, no added addon. Is it meant fb container should should be like an pre-installed addon?
It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?
Eagerly awaiting a Firefox release that improves power consumption on Mac to a point where it is at least close to competitive with Safari. That, plus the rumors that iOS will soon allow 3rd party default browsers and I'm all in Firefox for sure.
> Firefox has added support for the new JavaScript optional chaining operator (?.)<p>Cool! This sounds like something all programming languages should have had decades ago.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Optional_chaining" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...</a>
I am surprised that browsing experience looks mostly the same as it did in the beginning of web browsing. Browsers are almost operating systems, yet they look like, well.. content readers. Nowadays I tend to work on several "projects" or tasks in paralel and for each project I open multiple tabs. I am opening multiple windows but it's easy to get lost in what each of these windows belongs to, difficult to switch between them, browser windows all look the same. Containers are not exactly good for this as they have their own cookies/local storage (different use case). It seems to me that browsers are not evolving in the actual end user usability that much. Also, more generally, why can't we have electron built-in in the browser, integrated with OS (so windows would look like a native app with it's own icon, title, etc)? Why does there need to be a separate Electron "browser" for every webapp instead of reusing already running browser with extra, per-app elevated API access? Why are browsers using vague version numbering instead of semver as it used to be? I don't know if FF 74 is the massive upgrade from 73 or if it is similar to the change from 72 to 73 or 71 to 72. And will it still take 2 seconds to get visual feedback after clicking the button in that fancy marerial SPA on my cutting-edge desktop machine?
I wish they’d fix Lockwise on iOS. Not really working. In my case takes ages to open when set as default, and never auto suggests login for the active site, either from Firefox or any other app.
After updating Firefox opens this page (using Google trackers) <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/whatsnew/all/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/whatsnew/all/</a> with a huge banner for Facebook container. Notably Mozilla hasn't made or advertises a Google container (probably has nothing to do with their heavy use of Google analytics or the search deal they have with Google).
Please just fix the macOS CoreAnimation patch. It was introduced with so much fanfare ~6 months ago but it doesn't do anything, in terms of power use, for a large contingent of Firefox users. Firefox still nukes batteries, especially with video playing.
"Going forward, only users can install add-ons; they cannot be installed by an application."<p>Surely that depends on how hard the application wants to try? I suppose they might mean that installing add-ons externally is now unsupported.
It says a lot that there's a new feature bullet for Facebook alone. I wonder if at some point Firefox is going to be so effective at hampering FB's goals that FB decides it needs to be crushed
I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.
Any way to get rid of this "Your browser is being managed by your organization" tomfoolery without nuking the relevant code in EnterprisePolicies.js[1] and rebuilding Firefox?<p>[1]: <a href="https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/enterprisepolicies/EnterprisePolicies.js#568" rel="nofollow">https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compo...</a>
Switched to Firefox nightly and preview recently; it's great once you enable webrender and mess with a few other about:config options. Lockwise on Android is the only issue, it doesn't always suggest my saved passwords.
The desktop version should be a lower-level priority in the mobile driven world. The Android version of the browser is still annoyingly slow and too complex to be a daily default.<p>Brave, with it's dead easy setup should be an example to follow.
The browser is unusable on Twitch or YouTube. It is so slow. It also starts lagging my 2700x CPU, which is insane. As always performance is an issue with Firefox and always will be
> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ...<p>Features just for insta? I thought this was a web browser not an instagram browser. I guess same goes for the facebook container... what's up with building browser features for facebook? Why no reddit container, or google container, or amazon container?