Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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Udedenkz

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Fail? WebGL and WebM aren't going anywhere.

Neither is really used anywhere, and if it is it is opt-in.

Neither technology is impressive, quite on the contrary actually.

Both technologies have competition which offers more impressive closed source alternatives.

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+Zlip792 MVC

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Tab detach animation is backout from Nightly as well. I liked it and enjoyed it but it was making performance hit too much. So good move. But hoping new implemention does not take 3 years.

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+Gary7 Subscriber²

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Neither is really used anywhere, and if it is it is opt-in.

Neither technology is impressive, quite on the contrary actually.

Both technologies have competition which offers more impressive closed source alternatives.

I wonder how much time Mozilla wasted on this?

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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Neither is really used anywhere, and if it is it is opt-in.

Neither technology is impressive, quite on the contrary actually.

Both technologies have competition which offers more impressive closed source alternatives.

Your first point doesn't make much sense (You opt into using it, by using it?)

Second point is a personal thing (I think OpenGL in the browser is quite impressive)

And the Flash Stage3D stuff (I assume that's what you're talking about), Adobe themselves have said that's based off what WebGL offers.

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BetaAddict

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Then either file a bug report or start using Chrome. Preferably the former. :)

Problem is that very few of us in this thread are registered and have the time start a bug report, yet alone follow up on it. Hope someone else can file the bug report though.

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Brandon H Supervisor

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Problem is that very few of us in this thread are registered and have the time start a bug report, yet alone follow up on it. Hope someone else can file the bug report though.

what will all that take? a whole 5 minutes?

no offense but it just sounds like you're being lazy, if you want the feature so badly file a bug report

personally I like the way they're going with the new dropdown download button, and for those who prefer it, they can get the downloadstatusbar add-on

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I'm having that issue I mentioned before with the extension Tab Utilities. There's a feature called Tab Stacking, that all of a sudden turned itself back on! The smooth moving animation when moving tabs is no longer there, and now it auto stacks tabs when moving them. I went to about:config and searched for the entry, but it's still set to false. That means it shouldn't be on, but yet it is. extensions.tabutils.autoCollapseNewStack is set to false. I don't know what's going on, cause this just all of a sudden started happening. Maybe a new version came out and auto installed itself? I know I heard that they took out the smooth animated tabs, but is that for the latest Firefox 8.0 Beta 5 also?

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+Gary7 Subscriber²

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I'm having that issue I mentioned before with the extension Tab Utilities. There's a feature called Tab Stacking, that all of a sudden turned itself back on! The smooth moving animation when moving tabs is no longer there, and now it auto stacks tabs when moving them. I went to about:config and searched for the entry, but it's still set to false. That means it shouldn't be on, but yet it is. extensions.tabutils.autoCollapseNewStack is set to false. I don't know what's going on, cause this just all of a sudden started happening. Maybe a new version came out and auto installed itself? I know I heard that they took out the smooth animated tabs, but is that for the latest Firefox 8.0 Beta 5 also?

I use Tab Mix Plus Dev release and it works great. You can find it HERE

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mancode20

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I use Tab Mix Plus Dev release and it works great. You can find it HERE

Yeah, I might have to go back to using that if I can't get used to this Tab Stacking thing. I think it's because they took out the smooth animated moving tabs in Firefox 8.0 Beta 5. They were in Beta 4. Can anyone confirm? Kind of snuck up on me. I heard they were removing it for the Nightly releases, but I wasn't sure it was going to be removed in the latest beta.

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mancode20

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I'm pretty annoyed that they backed out the tab animations even on the dev builds.

Me too. I don't get why they would do it on the beta builds or nightly releases. Experimental features should be in them! That's what makes them experimental releases! Take it out of the released stable version if you must, but let us people that want to experiment continue to do so. That's pretty lame to have a cool and useful feature, then just take it away. I understand they are working on bringing it back better than ever, so I will try and show some patience. It is a free browser, so I can't complain much. Unless it's my imagination, it does seem to be a little snappier when closing tabs now. I'm guessing that's because they removed the animation. I hope they can make it like Chrome's someday. I really don't understand why they can't just leave the feature in, but have an option to enable or disable it. The best of both worlds.

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remixedcat

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I'm pretty annoyed that they backed out the tab animations even on the dev builds.

yeah just updated and noticed the tab animation is gone! why???? it's back to the older look.

I never had problems with the tab animation thing... sometimes CPU was high for like 4 days and that issue was resolved! it only uses like .5-2% more CPU usage.... if this was all people griped about than that sucks becuase it was smoother to move tabs around. it was much easier. I don't care about the extra 1 or 2% CPU usage it had if it makes it smoother it's worth it for a better experience. my page fault delta didn't even change much with the tab animations.

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@remixedcat

Neither in terms of CPU-usage nor the animation itself were smoth enough... Despite the fact that it broke Add-ons.

If you want to see how tab-animation is to be smooth, check Chrome. They will re-implement it with another way. None knows when, though.

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ViperAFK

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@remixedcat

Neither in terms of CPU-usage nor the animation itself were smoth... Despite the fact that it broke Add-ons.

If you want to see how tab-animation is to be smooth, check Chrome. They will re-implement it with another way. None knows when, though.

It was perfectly smooth on all my machines, even my old pentium 4 box.

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V23

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So I installed the PDF.js extension but whenever I load a pdf it still uses the Adobe plug-in and when I disable that it doesn't load at all. How can I make PDF.js the default PDF handler?

Also, does anyone know a simple way of removing plug-ins? I installed BitComet ages ago to check something and have since uninstalled it, but the plugin BitCometAgent is still in firefox's plug-ins? There is only an option to disable it, none to remove.

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So I installed the PDF.js extension but whenever I load a pdf it still uses the Adobe plug-in and when I disable that it doesn't load at all. How can I make PDF.js the default PDF handler?

I simply installed the extension and disable my previous plugin and it worked, so i don't know :/

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phendrome

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I'm pretty annoyed that they backed out the tab animations even on the dev builds.

I'm guessing that one of the reasons they removed the tab animations is that people usually drag their tabs into their bookmark button and that didn't work at all with the tab animations enabled (you could not bookmark a site when dragging the tab).

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V23

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I simply installed the extension and disable my previous plugin and it worked, so i don't know :/

It's working now. I'm not sure why the toolbar buttons have to be so big, I assume that they're just placeholders for the moment. Also, it would be good if they added the hand icon so that I could drag the pdf around.

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