updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[ViperAFK]

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).

I've always used the bookmark star like a normal person :rofl:

[Udedenkz]

pdf.js GUI looks like something ported from Ubuntu - large and oversimplified.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

FF11 will not have Trace Monkey Javascript engine (introduced in 3.5) at all:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698201

After FF10 shiftly to FF11 (on Nightly), it will get some memory shrinks from huge progress from Brian (TI JS engine developer):

http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/11/01/spidermonkey-is-on-a-diet/

[Brandon H Supervisor]

FF11 will not have Trace Monkey Javascript engine (introduced in 3.5) at all:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=698201

After FF10 shiftly to FF11 (on Nightly), it will get some memory shrinks from huge progress from Brian (TI JS engine developer):

http://blog.mozilla....y-is-on-a-diet/

when's the channel shift supposed to begin?

[Mayhem]

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 believe it is - extensions.tabutils.autoStack

[+Zlip792 MVC]

when's the channel shift supposed to begin?

On November 8, current FF10 get code freeze and development of FF11 will start.

Relanded - will reduce CPU usage:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666446

[Udedenkz]

On November 8, current FF10 get code freeze and development of FF11 will start.

Relanded - will reduce CPU usage:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=666446

Re-opened,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691775

Will probably stall things until 11

[.beta]

Anyone know an addon to bring back tab animations? I miss it D:

[mancode20]

Anyone know an addon to bring back tab animations? I miss it D:

Yeah, someone needs to make one if possible.That would be really cool. Also, I'd like the developer of TabMixPlus or TabUtilities to add a feature for renaming tabs. The old extension Tabrenamizer works, but there is an annoying bug that happens every once in awhile with it.

[kilara1988]

Why would someone make addon for tab animations when they are still going to implement them back,just with out the limitations the previous implementation had?

[mancode20]

Why would someone make addon for tab animations when they are still going to implement them back,just with out the limitations the previous implementation had?

Because it's probably going to take a long time for them to add it back. Why not have an alternative while we're waiting?

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Fixed

Little startup improvement:

https://bugzilla.moz...ug.cgi?id=94199

Long awaited bug - Un-group separate instances on Windows 7 Superbar

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=577867

Speed up for Google Docs:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=684638

Last clownshoes Memory bug:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=678977

[Jub]

Because it's probably going to take a long time for them to add it back. Why not have an alternative while we're waiting?

I agree. I know it's stupid, but I can't use Firefox without its tab animations. I don't know if it's because I'm a designer, but it just hurts my mind when drag tabs without it.

[boogerjones]

Looks like FF 8 release just hit the build system.

[max22]

Looks like FF 8 release just hit the build system.

Yep! Good times ahead!

[remixedcat]

it's annoying without the tab animations, dragging tabs takes longer without it and my HDD has more grinding from it. grrr that's annoying.

[fr33k]

the unofficial release of 8/0 final

hmm sorry the link is dead now :(

it was good a few minutes ago

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0/win32/

[ad!k1337]

the unofficial release of 8/0 final

hmm sorry the link is dead now :(

it was good a few minutes ago

http://releases.mozi...ases/8.0/win32/

It's here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%208.0.exe

[maeby]

damn i just updated to 8 beta a few days ago, guess its time to go to 9 ;P

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

it's annoying without the tab animations, dragging tabs takes longer without it and my HDD has more grinding from it. grrr that's annoying.

Your hard drive shouldn't be "grinding", that sounds bad.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Last dependent bug of Incremental GC got update after a long time:

https://bugzilla.moz...i?id=641027#c22

Full screen API in inbound:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=700151

(Now FF users can full screen HTML5 video)

Many IndexedDB pages landed on Central.

Sweet fix:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577867

[dnast]

Looks like the second bug just changes the preference to enable the Full Screen API by default. However, I didn't know anything about that preference, so it's news to me.

Just tried it on YouTube and I'm glad to see it's working. Going back to the in-page view doesn't seem to be working so well, yet.

[mancode20]

I'm eager to switch to Firefox 9 Beta. Has the switch happened yet? 8.0 should be Final today, right? 9 Beta should be out soon. Is it on the server yet? I know I can download Aurora or Nightly, but I prefer the Firefox branding, which is why I'm currently using 8 Beta.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Looks like the second bug just changes the preference to enable the Full Screen API by default. However, I didn't know anything about that preference, so it's news to me.

Just tried it on YouTube and I'm glad to see it's working. Going back to the in-page view doesn't seem to be working so well, yet.

One fixing bug of it also landed with it so I think it will address your issue also, if not then later in development period they will fix it.

[dnast]

One fixing bug of it also landed with it so I think it will address your issue also, if not then later in development period they will fix it.

Thanks! Sounds good. I'll give it a try after the update. :)