Firefox's massive overhaul moves to beta

I've tried many things, but it seems to be changes they made to hardware acceleration. This would be a smart time for them to make some major improvements. With Windows 10 coming and IE being mostly hidden from the user it will lose a lot of market share. I don't expect that Edge will make up the difference.

 

Note that warning upon closing multiple tabs is an option in Tab Mix Plus in case that functionality needs to be restored.

 

Can someone tell me why some images do not get displayed in Firefox whereas they show with IE. I'm not sure at what point this happened, but I get a lot of square boxes showing up on various sites when browsing. Here's an example.
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Do you use the Firefox addon NoScript? If so, check option Forbid @font-face.

 

Well, I had a problem on Win10 where I was getting a tab loop in conjunction with the windows store app being launched. I couldn''t get rid of it even in safe mode. I had to do a refresh which fixed the loop and allowed the store app to launch, but now I am in the process off reinstalling my extensions. I haven't gotten to NoScript yet.

After looking into this a bit further, I found the problem is caused by not allowing sites to use their own fonts (Options, Content, Advanced...). A lot of sites don't do a good job on their fonts, so I had the option turned off. Turning this option on to get rid of the boxes is not a good solution for me, but more and more sites are starting to sarcasm: improve esarcasm: their design and the boxes are appearing more and more and sometimes you can't tell what they do when mousing over them (PITA). I did find another addon that alleviates the allow all or nothing problem though. It's called Document Font Toggle

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/22/firefox-40-features-a-windows-10-optimized-theme/

 

Is there a "Click to Play" like in Chrome? For videos.

 

Thanks JR.

 

Thanks, JR!
Just updated.

 

Thanks JR, just updated.

 

https://github.com/mozilla/idea-town

There are Idea Town UI/flow diagrams @ https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7dz7be1zm372mu/idea-town-WIRES.pdf?dl=0. Based on those and a couple of other datapoints, it appears Mozilla is intending to make this dependent upon, and revolve around, having a Firefox Account. In addition, it appears that these will be experiments involving code that requires testing. So in addition to bugs and possibly not yet incorporated safeguards that may jeopardize participants' security/privacy, there is likely to be phoned-home telemetry which may do so as well. Hopefully, the browser's telemetry related settings will be honored.

On a related note, Mozilla is pursuing something called Universal Search and it appears that it will be one of the Idea Town experiments. It appears to be a browser-based front end to searching, one that will have a monetization aspect to it, and one that will have a server/service component. One of the things I came across was an etherpad, which links to a related privacy study: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYs5oWhO5Okp2oUJaJGEjOPWC2fbx2nFAhT-Ne0zK0E/. It appears that the study involved looking at a somewhat similar Cliqz addon as well as the addon Mozilla is working on, and the results weren't good. So you might want to approach both with caution and dig deeper if you intend to expose yourself to either one.