updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[Konstantine]

Obviously I do know.. Why do you think I am noob?? LOL!!!

Where are all those bugfixes you were posting? On top of that, you've started talking like a complete idiot, no offence.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Where are all those bugfixes you were posting? On top of that, you've started talking like a complete idiot, no offence.

Well, I use to post but nowadays I am busy. If seriously talking truth is being stupid then I am OK with being stupid. BTW several of new CSS3 and HTML5 support coming like scoped stylesheet, CSS3 variables, download attribute and inline iframe sandbox.

[bogas04]

Is it me or the Social API is laggy on FF 19/20 ?

I also was able to capture this by clicking all the three buttons at very small intervals , and it stayed like this until clicked again or a new notification appeared.

[bawz]

Finalizing Menu and Panel Customization overhaul. Visual design and addressing remaining intreaction questions:

-Initial Rejected Ideas: https://www.dropbox....lo/jBe9Ba6yNV#/

-Better Zoomable version 2: https://www.dropbox....rxmc/4oU6ADfinO

-Sliding Panel Idea: https://www.dropbox....4f8t/0IOw126b2o

-Final Customization Mode Visual Design Pass:https://www.dropbox....e6pu/hcgPz71a-Z

Blair (engineering) started on customization: http://prntscr.com/jr5mr

got this from http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2512745&start=90

[LAMj]

Is it me or the Social API is laggy on FF 19/20 ?

It's not you. Until Mozilla ever going to redo their gecko layout engine from scratch, lagginess is a permanent "feature" in firefox. They finally brough back the tab order animation and it still lags. They also seem to stop caring about the jerkiness of the newtab animation. I have to disable all the bell and whistle in about:config to make Firefox livable.

[mancode20]

How do you make the downloads panel display ALL downloads from the PANEL? Meaning I don't want the separate window opening up. It used to do that, but then they changed it to only display 3 or 4 at a time, or whatever the number is. Anyone know what I mean and how to fix it? I'm hoping there's an about:config option, so I can set it to display all current downloads without having to click on show all downloads to see the rest of the downloads.

[bogas04]

How do you make the downloads panel display ALL downloads from the PANEL? Meaning I don't want the separate window opening up. It used to do that, but then they changed it to only display 3 or 4 at a time, or whatever the number is. Anyone know what I mean and how to fix it? I'm hoping there's an about:config option, so I can set it to display all current downloads without having to click on show all downloads to see the rest of the downloads.

That is as per design , and I think you can't do that as of now. What is the problem with current method ? Earlier it used to take entire vertical space and look annoying , also you couldn't use search feature to find a particular download.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/candidates/18.0b1-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/

Firefox 18 Beta 1 available above. It is a Candidate . I am using it and it works great Built from the same change set as what Mozilla shows to be released on Monday the 26th. http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/59a280d63905

[Konstantine]

It's not you. Until Mozilla ever going to redo their gecko layout engine from scratch, lagginess is a permanent "feature" in firefox. They finally brough back the tab order animation and it still lags. They also seem to stop caring about the jerkiness of the newtab animation. I have to disable all the bell and whistle in about:config to make Firefox livable.

Care to tell us which things you disable in about:config? ;) :)

[evieluvsrainbows]

They are always releasing new versions of Firefox, which is nice. I like Firefox a lot. But I like Google Chrome more.

[torrentthief]

firefox 18 beta 1 is so much faaster than v17, ionmonkey is nice :)

[+Zlip792 MVC]

firefox 18 beta 1 is so much faaster than v17, ionmonkey is nice :)

Nightly is roaring on my side and Yes! FF17 and FF18 has many great snappy fixes. Although Ion Monkey is not much ready for its prime time, although since now Brian Hackett is back, goods think and JS Team will be little more active now like today or tomorrow Nightly will have "Off the Main thread compilation" which will not block main thread during JS compilation.

[evieluvsrainbows]

If you think Firefox is laggy, use Google Chrome. It's very fast.

[mr_han_solo]

Does FF18 include a Metro version if I install it on Windows 8?

[evieluvsrainbows]

Yes, you just gotta make it the default browser.

[Konstantine]

No it doesn't. Even Nightly doesn't have Metro Fx... how do you expect beta to have it?

[mr_han_solo]

Yes, you just gotta make it the default browser.

No it doesn't. Even Nightly doesn't have Metro Fx... how do you expect beta to have it?

Now I'm just confused. I'll probably just go ahead and install it and if Metro isn't included then I'll just keep it on there until it lands.

I thought a read on the Firefox Wiki or Firefox blog two months ago that Metro about was going to land on 18.

[Detection]

Now I'm just confused. I'll probably just go ahead and install it and if Metro isn't included then I'll just keep it on there until it lands.

I thought a read on the Firefox Wiki or Firefox blog two months ago that Metro about was going to land on 18.

I believe these are the Metro builds

http://ftp.mozilla.o...tly/latest-elm/

More info about them here

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration#Metro_Builds

[evieluvsrainbows]

No it doesn't. Even Nightly doesn't have Metro Fx... how do you expect beta to have it?

I believe these are the Metro builds

http://ftp.mozilla.o...tly/latest-elm/

More info about them here

https://wiki.mozilla...on#Metro_Builds

Now I'm just confused. I'll probably just go ahead and install it and if Metro isn't included then I'll just keep it on there until it lands.

I thought a read on the Firefox Wiki or Firefox blog two months ago that Metro about was going to land on 18.

Yes, Detection is right. Firefox 18 does have the Metro UI when you make it the default browser. Download Firefox Aurora to get the Metro User Interface. But you will have to make it the default browser and you will have to launch Firefox from the Start Screen.

[Konstantine]

Yes, Detection is right. Firefox 18 does have the Metro UI when you make it the default browser. Download Firefox Aurora to get the Metro User Interface. But you will have to make it the default browser and you will have to launch Firefox from the Start Screen.

I have Nightly as my default browser and no Metro UI from Start Page. :/ You need to download a specific build, not just some aurora...

[Detection]

I have Nightly as my default browser and no Metro UI from Start Page. :/ You need to download a specific build, not just some aurora...

Which is why I posted the links if you read up ^^^

[evieluvsrainbows]

Thanks for the links. But I was sure that the Stub installer would install the latest one with the Metro UI, oh well.

[kilara1988]

That is the thing.The Metro builds are a different branch than the Nightly,Aurora and the others.So they are not the "latest",just different branch builds.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Metro work is being carried on "elm" branch which is different from mozilla-central from where the Nightly builds are formed, elm branch keep update by merging mozilla-central on regular interval, only elm branch builds have "Metro UI". Once elm branch will merge with mozilla-central then Nightly will get Metro UI.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Metro work is being carried on "elm" branch which is different from mozilla-central from where the Nightly builds are formed, elm branch keep update by merging mozilla-central on regular interval, only elm branch builds have "Metro UI". Once elm branch will merge with mozilla-central then Nightly will get Metro UI.

When that happens I stop using the Nightly builds unless it is a choice.