Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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been testing silk in nightly, definitely a nice improvement in the smooth scrolling animation and interface animations. a super noticeable example is the animation when going into the 'customize' screen. In current versions of firefox there's some very noticeable dropped frames during this animation, in nightly with silk enabled the animation is totally smooth with no dropped frames.

 

Firefox with apz + silk feels competitive with IE11 in scrolling smoothness with the mousewheel :) (and firefox's middle click autoscroll is way better than ie11's)

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It's what Servo's written in, and eventually parts of Firefox (That's the plan at least)

So, in the future, developers could make extensions in this language?

been testing silk in nightly, definitely a nice improvement in the smooth scrolling animation and interface animations. a super noticeable example is the animation when going into the 'customize' screen. In current versions of firefox there's some very noticeable dropped frames during this animation, in nightly with silk enabled the animation is totally smooth with no dropped frames.

 

Firefox with apz + silk feels competitive with IE11 in scrolling smoothness with the mousewheel :) (and firefox's middle click autoscroll is way better than ie11's)

That's good.

I use Firefox for web development all the time hopefully it will be more responsive once this makes it into release.

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So, in the future, developers could make extensions in this language?

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Probably, but as an alternative to C, not as an alternative to JS.

With ctypes (The JS bindings to native code) you can write code in pretty much any language as long as it exposes the Windows ABI and doesn't do anything special.

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- Asynchronous Plugin Initialization landing with default ON soon though backout now..
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1116806
 
- Disable Flash Protected Mode if experience Flash Hangs twice once in a session & Toggle Button in Addon Manager
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133003
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1133000
 
For UI - https://bug1133000.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8564285
 
- Reader Mode for Desktop (dependent bugs)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129106 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132925
 
- Reading List on Desktop
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123517
 
- Text Highlighting Regression Fixed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128722
 
- Text Selection fixes (Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera 12.x are the best in this area, Opera team fixed few issues in this regard in Blink but they yet have to make it comparable to before)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129078
 
- Update pdfjs to latest
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135021

 

- Printing Regression fix [Not closed yet]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134891

 

- In-Content preference regression

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1047586

 

- Search from about:home & about:newtab using Middle mouse button & right click opens in same tab bug

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071558

 

- New search UI breaks if too many open search providers are offered

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113747

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Do any of you know if they have any plans to make Firefox look at least OK on Yosemite? It's been almost a year since it was first shown...

 

They landed several fixes during Firefox 37 Nightly time, so I guess slowly they will make UI compatible with Yosemite.

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Do any of you know if they have any plans to make Firefox look at least OK on Yosemite? It's been almost a year since it was first shown...

Firefox 39 Nightly looks like this on OS X 10.10:

 

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It's not too bad, is it?

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Good lord, I had to expand my window across my laptop and 1080p monitor just to see that image.  If that's taken from your desktop, I'm somewhat envious.

Retina Macbook Pro with the resolution set to scale to 1920x1200. With the retina feature active a fullscreen screenshot is 3840x2400. 

 

That said Chrome and Safari at least scale the embedded screenshot so it fits into the browser window. 

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Firefox 39 Nightly looks like this on OS X 10.10:

 

It's not too bad, is it?

 

Thanks. Not too bad, but still has a way to go I suppose. I did find that the light developer theme looks pretty sweet on Yosemite though!

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Am I the only one who hasn't received 36 on my Android devices? My PC updated itself like 3 days ago yet according to the play store 35 is the newest.

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Retina Macbook Pro with the resolution set to scale to 1920x1200. With the retina feature active a fullscreen screenshot is 3840x2400.

That said Chrome and Safari at least scale the embedded screenshot so it fits into the browser window.

That's a Chrome/Safari bug, well to be more precise it's a non-standard CSS implementation, but with Google/Apple trying to relive the IE6 glory days they have no interest in fixing it.

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Am I the only one who hasn't received 36 on my Android devices? My PC updated itself like 3 days ago yet according to the play store 35 is the newest.

Edit: Oh yeah

That's a Chrome/Safari bug, well to be more precise it's a non-standard CSS implementation, but with Google/Apple trying to relive the IE6 glory days they have no interest in fixing it.

i use tghe Beta's but i noticed even Firefox Beta 37 hasnt even landed for Android either

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64-bit Developer Edition and 64-bit Firefox Beta for the Windows is on their way:

 

Next Firefox 37 Beta 2 will be also available for 64-bit on Windows

 

Source - http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/28/mozilla-releases-64-bit-firefox-developer-edition-for-windows

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Firefox 37 beta shows the options menu in a new tab instead of in a popup window which is great, this was supposed to be in a stable version of firefox months ago, better late than never.

 

Btw downloadhelper 5.0.0 alpha 1 addon is available, it allows you to download videos from youtube and other websites, you can get it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/video-downloadhelper-5

 

The addon has be re-written from scratch with firefox addon sdk instead of XUL so it should support e10s a.k.a electrolysis.

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Firefox 37 beta shows the options menu in a new tab instead of in a popup window which is great, this was supposed to be in a stable version of firefox months ago, better late than never.

 

You can already use that new options tab and its fully functional, just go to about:preferences.

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