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That's only a temporary solution as a) Australis will eventually land on ESR and b) there's rumors going around that Mozilla might drop ESR builds (which would be very a idiotic and shortsighted thing to do).

i somehow donbt  Mozilla would get rid of the ESR builds , companies like Redhat  depend on the ESR for there Enterprise Product

so now that Australis is coming to beta is there a way to get forecastfox working with it yet?

also this is a helpful addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-addon-bar if anyone likes the addon bar

so now that Australis is coming to beta is there a way to get forecastfox working with it yet?

also this is a helpful addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-addon-bar if anyone likes the addon bar

annoy the Author of the Extension as its there problem to get Extensions working with Australis,.

annoy the Author of the Extension as its there problem to get Extensions working with Australis,.

i think development may have been abandoned on forecastfox as it hasn't been updated since 2012. are there any good alternatives out there or a way to force it to work on firefox 29?

In the latest Firefox UX Nightly 31.0a1 (March 21st), I've noticed I can no longer use middle click to open links in new tabs. Is that something they have changed? Chrome is doing the same thing with their most recent stable version. I'm hoping there is an about:config change I can make. Is there one? Thanks!

In the latest Firefox UX Nightly 31.0a1 (March 21st), I've noticed I can no longer use middle click to open links in new tabs. Is that something they have changed? Chrome is doing the same thing with their most recent stable version. I'm hoping there is an about:config change I can make. Is there one? Thanks!

Now it seems it's working again. Strange. Might've had something to do with an extension.

Anyone know of a good zoom extension that works with the latest UX Nightly 31.0a1? I don't think NoSquint works anymore.

 

I used to use AliceWhite extension but it also makes Nightly works abnormal. So I think a common bug affected all zoom related extensions. What I think recent landing of zoom stuff related to Electrolysis (e10s) broke it.

For people wondering about New Tab Page, here its new look of New Tab Page.

Firefox devs are also planning to integrate search bar on NTP like Chrome:

 

kcJFQT6.png

 

@Konstantine

 

Not possible without use of addons or userstyles.

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Anyone know of a good zoom extension that works with the latest UX Nightly 31.0a1? I don't think NoSquint works anymore.

 

Try this available FullZoom text experimental addon, its working on Nightly. Although its work in progress. Alice is trusted person, you can install from other amo as well.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13397111#p13397111

I have a question, forgive me if it's ignorant.

 

Which would be better to use, Aurora or Australis nightlies?

 

I'm reading this and that about the different versions, etc.  So many ways to go.   Trunk, branch, nightlies, etc.

 

TIA

For people wondering about New Tab Page, here its new look of New Tab Page.

Firefox devs are also planning to integrate search bar on NTP like Chrome:

These are way too small at high resolution

SYRLxkb.jpg

If you know some addon or a userstyle that can "fix" it, then share it please. Thanks!

 

 

Do you have Stylish installed if Yes, I can create Userstyle for you?

 

Try below one, its work like charm for me with 1680*1050 full window Firefox Nightly. Although it will introduce horizontal scrollbar when you reduce window size. No scrollbar till 1096*713 window using Responsive Mode Developer tool and below mentioned code.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url("about:newtab") {
    
.newtab-cell {
  height: 200px !important;
  width: 320px !important;
}

}
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Which would be better to use, Aurora or Australis nightlies?

that's not a valid question. i'm guessing you don't understand what each is.

 

Aurora is the Alpha 2 branch (pre-beta branch). Australis is the name of the new firefox theme

I have a question, forgive me if it's ignorant.

 

Which would be better to use, Aurora or Australis nightlies?

 

I'm reading this and that about the different versions, etc.  So many ways to go.   Trunk, branch, nightlies, etc.

 

TIA

 

No issue.. Does not matter.. We are here to help..

 

Aurora - little stable, less new features popup but more consistent improvements patches to make it stable.

Nightly - bleeding edge trunk branch which get cut off each day and build is made from mozilla-central branch. Get more frequent updates and features.

 

If you rely heavily on addons, I don't recommend Nightly. Neither if you are on limited bandwidth connection.

 

For Australis testing, best is if you stick with Aurora unless you want to see all upcoming changes then you should go with new profile on Nightly.

 

Do you have Stylish installed if Yes, I can create Userstyle for you?

 

Try below one, its work like charm for me with 1680*1050 full window Firefox Nightly. Although it will introduce horizontal scrollbar when you reduce window size. No scrollbar till 1096*713 window using Responsive Mode Developer tool and below mentioned code.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url("about:newtab") {
    
.newtab-cell {
  height: 200px !important;
  width: 320px !important;
}

}

 

Thanks a lot! You nailed it! :)

that's not a valid question. i'm guessing you don't understand what each is.

 

Aurora is the Alpha 2 branch (pre-beta branch). Australis is the name of the new firefox theme

 

Not valid?   It was why I asked, so I could understand better.  Thanks for the links.

 

No issue.. Does not matter.. We are here to help..

 

Aurora - little stable, less new features popup but more consistent improvements patches to make it stable.

Nightly - bleeding edge trunk branch which get cut off each day and build is made from mozilla-central branch. Get more frequent updates and features.

 

If you rely heavily on addons, I don't recommend Nightly. Neither if you are on limited bandwidth connection.

 

For Australis testing, best is if you stick with Aurora unless you want to see all upcoming changes then you should go with new profile on Nightly.

 

Thank you very much.  Your explanation and Brando's links helped a lot.  (Y)

 

I'll use Aurora then.  I'm liking the new (Australis) interface a lot.

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Not valid?   It was why I asked, so I could understand better.  Thanks for the links.

 

 

Thank you very much.  Your explanation and Brando's links helped a lot.  (Y)

 

I'll use Aurora then.  I'm liking the new (Australis) interface a lot.

Australis is on the Beta Branch now too if you want something that's guaranteed more stable

Australis is on the Beta Branch now too if you want something that's guaranteed more stable

 

Thank you.  Aurora seems to be what I was looking for.  ADblock+ works (Neowin whitelisted of course) the only extension I use.

Just installed the beta. Few thought:

 

-It looks okay. People were making too big of a fuss regarding the curved tabs, and I guess it's a userstyle away from looking like it did before.

-Seems a bit more responsive (though I never had issues with Firefox performance-wise).

-Easy to use sync. F'ING FINALLY. Not that this was a deal-breaker as Xmarks always worked nicely, but I guess now it's one less add-on to think about. The previous way it worked was just awful.

 

How it looks (Windows 8 with Aero enabled):

 

ff_29_b1.png

 

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