Ok /g/, today a new update for Firefox, it's stable will be Firefox 47.
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/07/firefox-47/
Opinions, comments, concerns? What do you think of the update /g/?
>using a browser with a single-digit and decreasing marketshare
>>54957161
>Appealing to popularity
>>54957179
when you want webdevs to adapt to your browser's quirks, then yes, you need popularity.
Ask Opera how lack of popularity worked out for them
>>54957260
Firefox is going fine right now with web developers.
>>54957260
I really wish I could use flexboxes on shit but if you ever try to do anything complicated with them Chrome shits itself.
I've stopped updating firefox and this is really bad for my security.
They just can't stop fucking the browser up.
I've got another machine where I let the updates run wild and it just keeps disabling functionality and changing shit around.
It's actual work to unfuck the browser every time they update it
>>54956987
>shitfox
lol no
>>54957304
This is painfully true. I wish I could switch to SM but I need muh addons
>>54957304
Use the ESR channel.
>>54957376
I did this but firefox unESRd itself, so I gave up.
>>54957396
What the fuck did you do? ESR is on an entirely different channel from the main train.
>it's a firefox hangs for several seconds loading basic web pages episode
I'm clueless about browsers, the main reason I use Firefox is that Chrome is run by the google\NSA and track literally everything.
>>54957541
if you know what a browser is and know there are more than one you're not clueless
>>54957409
Well I just installed the ESR, and ubuntu's package manager just went NOPE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS and put me back on track to shit town
>>54957541
I'd say that paranoid delusions are worst than being clueless.
There are two big problems with Firefox: first, most if not all Mozilla employees care more about politics than software (bullying other employees over private donations to conservative causes is just the tip of the iceberg); secondly, it is just trying to become a worse version of chromium at this point.
For these reasons, it is impossible to recommend firefox to self-respecting GNU/Linux users. People reporting problems with firefox will simply be told to install chromium or, alternatively, to use emacs to browse the internet.
>not using a different fork of Firefox
I'm using the Nightly and still no proper fix to browser lag when loading 200+ comment threads.
Its been that way forever. My chromium build loads the page fast and without freezing for couple of seconds. Firefox meanwhile freezes for few seconds and then loads, AND the cpu spikes up in usage comparatively.
Its just pathetic.
>>54957881
Pale Moon is the only decent fork of Firefox and few on /g/ are willing to switch to it.
>Using Firefox
>>54958004
>Shitposting
>>54957999
>no MSE
>>54957999
Do you mean Waterfox?
I use it for my second browser now since I use chromium, but since developer removes disable-directwrite flag I'm stuck now.
>start up chrome and firefox at the same time
>chrome opens up in less than a second while firefox takes up to 5min to open
literally why
>>54957999
Using fury fox.
Using furry fox after the dev threw up his hands and said he can't even continue updating.
I used it for a while, after one of the latest updates broke everthing and they just rolled back to the old version I gave up.
>>54957584
So it's your own fault for not disabling firefox from the ubuntu repos and not firefox's. But keep blaming software for your own stupidity.
>>54958076
What are you doing nigger
>>54958145
i have upwards 700 tabs open in cyberfox 22, in the process of upgrading the browser and moving away from chrome due to chrome's constant updates requiring me to restart my computer till the shit works without crashing, but even then, it takes less than 20 seconds to load.
There is not one legit reason to still be using this in 2016.
>>54958309
go away google shill
>>54958065
>Do you mean Waterfox?
Definitely not.
>>54958283
>i have upwards 700 tabs open
Fucking why
>>54958315
Name one
>>54958389
As a proud cuck, Mozilla is the company most supportive of my lifestyle.
>tfw can't switch to chromium because i miss the awesome bar too much
>>54957376
it's the same
just at a slower rate
>>54958347
autism anon
>>54957967
idk mang seems fine on my end
>>54957967
Do you have HTTPS Everywhere with SSL Observatory activated?
>>54959005
>all the stuttering and freezing
Fucking disgusting.
>>54958092
I'm using ubuntu BECAUSE I don't know what I'm doing
>>54958347
i use tabs as bookmarks, short/long term.
I read a bunch of shit, need to get shit done, but can put it off, I suspend the tab and move on. Then I end up not getting to it for a long time, and we are at why i have little over 1000 tabs open in chrome... thankfully suspended, but still, over 1000 tabs.
>>54957438
This, fucking youtube
>>54959544
You have a problem. Learn to let go or use a proper bookmarking feature like Pocket.
>>54959566
>blaming Google's inability to make proper websites on Mozilla
>>54959439
He has smooth scrolling disabled, retard.
>>54957161
This is /g/. People here are tinkerers and curious people who want to try all alternatives.
Braindead consumer retards like you should fuck off
>>54959852
Brain-dead consumers are the majority of modern /g/.
>>54959443
don't be hard on yourselt. ubuntu is a bit of a mess
>>54956987
>not just sticking to version 32
>>54959890
Brain-dead people are the majority of 4chan.
>>54959941
Why?
>>54957161
Give up, Google shill. You'll not get /g/ to use your botnet browser.
>>54959639
>Pocket.
shit doesn't get looked at then, i may accumulate hundreds of tabs, but suspend them and they are basicly bookmarks that are in my face constantly.
when the fuck are they gonna add some kind of mark to show that you already have a page bookmarked? old firefox had a fucking star at the url if the page was already bookmarked. shit makes me create so many dupes.
is there an addon or something for this?
One thing I really like about this update is how YouTube embedded videos that use the older <object> tag that requires flash will be automatically converted to the html5 player if you have flash disabled or not installed. I'll never again see the warning that you need flash installed to view a YouTube embedded video.
I am on a firefox 42, should I update or just leave it like that?
>3D View has been removed.
FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
It was quite useful on websites that doesn't let you directly right click on images. Yeah, you can browse the source code, but with 3D view it was a lot less time consuming. Fucking Mozilla is at it again.
>>54960323
Always update you stupid faggot. Do you even understand basic security?
>>54960323
Extended release version is 45 now. You're way behind.
>>54960338
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tilt/
>>54960423
Yay, another add on to bring back a removed functionality.
Thanks for the tip tho.
>>54960454
>Wtf, what is this Hello shit, it should be an add-on and not integrated into the browser
>Wtf, why did they remove (useless functionality almost nobody ever used) and put it into an add-on instead
Make up your mind.
>>54960485
I honestly think more people used 3D view in a month than people used Hello ever since it's been developed.
>>54960323
You should really stay on a supported release anon. If you don't want to upgrade every month you can use ESR which has one upgrade a year and security releases in-between.
ESR doesn't let you dodge feature changes though it just puts them off for a year, if you want to avoid all feature changes you need to move on to a fork like palemoon
>>54960503
No, you're projecting your own personal case into the "people"
>>54960503
Don't even know what that is desu
>>54960342
Yeah yeah, I know, but I really don't like getting fucked in the ass by mozilla removing useful features and adding useless bloat.
>>54960395
>>54960515
Thanks anons, I'll check it out, hopefully it'll be good enough.
>>54960540
Yeah, it's pretty good. You won't get today's update till ESR 52, but you also will only have to remove bloat and whatever once a year.
Anybody had a problem like that? Menus have transparency background and font is terrible. How to fix it?
>>54956987
> using old, obsolete versions of a browser
You're just axing for troubles, nigga
I bet Firefox can't do this at a click of a button
>>54960754
it's probably your shitty theme that is fucking it up
>>54959566
Youtube shits on everything
>>54960856
I remember having a userscript that could do that years ago. I forgot what it was called
Does it finally support WebP?
Anyone interested in WebP should go to >>54949381
pic related is a scaled down version of the comparison, anon uploaded the full res one on the WebP thread.
>>54960856
you what?
>>54960867
It's not this
>>54959890
They're not /g/ though. They're reddit and /v/
>>54960950
You need an extension to do that, I don't
>>54960961
That's still not the default theme.
>>54960851
Are you retarded?
>>54960976
Too bad that for everythng else you also need an extension. Or you might need one, since chances are you won't find it.
>>54960991
>firefox
what?
>>54957660
>>54960990
It is
>>54961034
Are you using Linux? The issue is probably with your GTK theme then.
>>54961034
You are literally the only one having that problem.
>>54961016
You must get called crazy a lot considering you saved that
Nightly just got updated to 50, as well.
>>54957438
>>54959566
What the fuck are you guys doing? Firefox runs just fine on my shitbox, there's no reason it should be crashing on you guys' computers.
>>54961048
Yes, I'm. I was changing gtk theme lot of times with no result. I see in logs ff is always searching adwaita, and can't find it (but it is in /usr/share/themes and i'm using it now)
>>54958347
Redirect them to stdout to have plain text and then make a html file out of it. Saves performance
>>54960991
It's stable enough - it has never crashed on me.
>>54961331
Yeah right
>>54961129
Probably they're one of those 500+ tabs people
>>54956987
I just updated firefox and my computer now only shows this screen when I turn it on. WTF!?!?!?
>>54962521
It's time to panic.
