Firefox's massive overhaul moves to beta

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  1. JRViejo

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    is a bit limited but a good starting point

    i always end here with a fuzzy search
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/

    or you like this list
    https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/collections/mozilla/featured-add-ons/

    ok, found a replacement for "magic actions..."
    https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/magic-actions-for-youtube/
    -> https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/

    nice feature since v57 - you can add/uninstall to test out without having theses remnants before because all settings of extension are no longer stored in prefs and delete after uninstalling. (like chrome(ium))

    thats the advise i can you (all) - do some research - you probably find a proper replacement for now, but the # is increasing.
    i dont really cant bear this fud about firefox any longer without any triage.
     
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    Excellent.
    Wish I could find a replacement for 'FaviconizeTab', but so far unsuccessful. One just gets so accustomed to some add-ons.
     
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    that can not be done any longer with an extension - denied. you have to use userchrome.css. one of the major changes.
     
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    FYI. Firefox 57 Beta 4 released September 29, 2017. Available via Internal Updater (6.7 MB - 64-bit).

    The Firefox Beta page's Download button downloads Firefox Installer.exe (300 KB).

    The Download Firefox Beta in your language page still downloads 57.0b3.exe's 32-bit & 64-bit versions @ time of post.
     
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    Actually, it seems that all I needed to do is to enable auto-play again, so I'm guessing certain players like the one from Ooyala changed something. On certain sites I'm still having problems, but I'm not sure if FF is solely to blame. Will soon switch to FF 57, let's see what happens.
     
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    Just me, or did the beta 4 version change bookmark folders to grey?
     
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    I am in Firefox 56, and see the change of color in bookmark folders. :)

    Bo
     
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    they are grey in beta-2/3 also. but not in my bookmarks toolbar folder - yellow as usual.

    update: beta4 now show also grey folder icons.

    solution:
    create a "chrome" subfolder in your profile and insert a "userchrome.css" with code:
    https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1049886#p1049886

    Code:
    @-moz-document
    url-prefix(chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul){
    
    treechildren::-moz-tree-image(container) {
      list-style-image: url(folder-item.png) !important;
      -moz-image-region: rect(0px 32px 16px 16px) !important;}
    }
    
    @-moz-document url-prefix(chrome://browser/content/browser.xul){
     
    .bookmark-item[container="true"]{
      list-style-image: url(folder-item.png) !important;
      -moz-image-region: rect(0px 32px 16px 16px) !important;}
    }
    
    "folder-item.png" is the old style in v54/55, put it to userchrome.css

    about rect
    https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/CSS/clip
     

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    I like the gray color. This is what folders look like in my Bookmarks sidebar (Firefox 56).. Isn't everyone seeing the gray folders in Firefox 56.

    Sin título.jpg

    Bo
     
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    those prefs are still working

    default values:
    browser.showQuitWarning;false

    browser.tabs.warnOnClose;true (here: false)
    new
    browser.tabs.warnOnCloseOtherTabs;true (here: false because annoying when closing tabs to the right/left/other)

    yesterday i also tried to use some userscripts - awfull. put some screipt here and there, insert there and there.
    the result: it dont work and i could not open about.config page and some more bugs

    could be beta4 but at least those userscripts are intruding firefox not the normal way and always need fixes to get along with current firefox, from my view waste of time.

    For now "Tab Session Manager" and this one will be a good replacement for "Session Manager"
    Undo Close Tab Button :: Add-ons for Firefox

    and some also created "OneTab" (modified) from the chrome Store
    OneTab-modified :: Add-ons für Firefox
    i need to check out if it saves its state, thats matter of some of my extensions i tried to convert.
    its a pretty nice replacement for Tab-groups

    my current list that far
    search latest creations
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...type=&cat=&platform=windows&appver=57.0&page=
     
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    I had been trying https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/undo-closed-tabs-revived/?src=ss. But trying https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/undo-close-tab-button/ now
    Nice find: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/right-click-link-new-tab/

    Edit: Strange thing. I had this set to true: browser.tabs.warnOnCloseOtherTabs;true and it was warning me, and it is still true. But now it's not warning me - I wonder if one of the new add-ons is interfering.

    Found it. It is the Undo Close Tab Button. S'pose it kinda makes sense, you can always reopen a closed tab from the list. Personally, I would prefer it wouldn't ignore the about:config setting, especially because it did warn once, so it is intermittent.

    Also intermittently not working in another profile now, without that add-on, so unpredictable here. :confused:
     
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  16. Brummelchen

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    running that too. i have similar for chrome because it opens a new tab instead using same tab.
    alternative: "tap to tab" which can use left double click or middle click to open links in new tabs.

    "one-tab modified" is crap, that far i came myself - it do not store the save tabs so restart means blank = nothing.
    in chromium it stores the tabs.

    btw please no full quotes
     
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    Centre clicking (scroll wheel on my mouse) opens links in a new tab.
     
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    Apologies.
    It doesn't on all mice apparently, not mine anyway.
     
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    I kept meaning to respond to this and kept getting pulled away from it... It seems that re-enabling auto-play fixed the YouTube issue, but no others. Progress made I guess. Weather.com still freezes and crashes Firefox. I really want to move to 57 but LastPass has no working add-on for it.
     
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    FYI. Firefox 57 Beta 5 released October 3, 2017. Available via Internal Updater (7.0 MB - 64-bit).

    The Firefox Beta page's Download button downloads Firefox Installer.exe (299 KB).

    The Download Firefox Beta in your language page downloads 57.0b5.exe's 32-bit & 64-bit versions.
     
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    There's talk about it in the LastPass forum with claims it will be ready when Firefox 57 is released, but no official announcement AFAICT. Since Firefox has been accepting web-extension add-ons for quite some time I have to wonder why LastPass appears to be so late to the party? Hard to imagine that they won't have it working for v57 release though; that will be a disaster for them.

    https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=271845&hilit=firefox 57&start=40
     
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    They used to be on top of this stuff but since the company has changed hands they have slowed down and doubled the price. I expect it will be ready when 57 goes final but I was hoping to update sooner. I have 57 on my work machine and would like to move my personal ones. If it's not ready when 57 is released I expect some people will be looking for a replacement.
     
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    To clarify, I was using FF v50, all sites do work correctly in FF 57, but I didn't want to disable auto-play to avoid screwing up things. But speaking about FF 57, I was disappointed. Most of my extensions are not working yet, obviously RAM usage is higher because of multi-process, I wonder if this can be turned off. No tab-based bookmark/history/download manager like in Vivaldi. No ability to put tabs on bottom, no ability to open tabs in background via middle-click. Browsing does feel a bit faster, but I'm guessing it will take 3 to 6 months before I can make the switch.
     
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    In v56 there is a Performance section under General Options where the content process limit can be set to "1".
     
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