updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[aznkid25]

Anyone else using Aurora 13a2 builds not able to view youtube or flash videos? All I get is a black window. When I right-click on it, it says "Movie not loaded." I have version 11.2.202.221 installed.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

I can view them fine here, on Aurora 13a2 as well

[Lion and Lamb Ministry]

Anyone else using Aurora 13a2 builds not able to view youtube or flash videos? All I get is a black window. When I right-click on it, it says "Movie not loaded." I have version 11.2.202.221 installed.

Right click on a flash video, click settings and UN-check: Enable Hardware Acceleration

See if that helps

[aznkid25]

Right click on a flash video, click settings and UN-check: Enable Hardware Acceleration

See if that helps

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I can't do that. the only two things that are in the right-click menu are "Movie not loaded" & "About Adobe Flash Player"

[Tech Star]

I just installed nightly, but I did not get the new design that they are going to implement. How can I get it or is it a custom theme?

[bogas04]

I just installed nightly, but I did not get the new design that they are going to implement. How can I get it or is it a custom theme?

Right now only navbar buttons and slight coloring has been updated. Other than that the NewTabPage and About:Home have been refreshed. If you are referring to curved/chromelike tabs , they have not been worked upon currently. You can use Australis Theme , other themes or this user style

[bogas04]

Pdf.js ( Default inbuilt HTML5 based PDF reader) is landing to tomorrow's nightly :) Bye bye foxit/adobe plugins :)

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The current look of the default theme in the Nightly builds:

[bogas04]

^ something is wrong with your caption button size and spacing between tabs and app button ...

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

^ something is wrong with your caption button size and spacing between tabs and app button ...

I have reduced the title bar height and border padding (personal preference). Hence the smaller gap between tabs and app button.

[ViperAFK]

The new new tab page hardly works for me in aurora on both my computers. It refuses to generate thumbnails for certain sites, and sometimes just closing firefox will cause all the thumbnails to be gone when I open it.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

The new new tab page hardly works for me in aurora on both my computers. It refuses to generate thumbnails for certain sites, and sometimes just closing firefox will cause all the thumbnails to be gone when I open it.

1. Did you disabled "Disk Cache"?

For thumbnail service, you have to enable Disk Cache

2. Did you have Settings "Clear your cache on exit"?

This will wipe out your thumbnails next time you open browser window.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

With today's Nightly, Mozilla has turned this Browser into a Fugly mess. The Home and arrow buttons look terrible.

[Karl-Johan]

and UX yesterday and todays build are completely messed up.

[Lels]

Yeah, I would say completely messed up is a good term for it.

[ViperAFK]

1. Did you disabled "Disk Cache"?

For thumbnail service, you have to enable Disk Cache

2. Did you have Settings "Clear your cache on exit"?

This will wipe out your thumbnails next time you open browser window.

I tried clearing my cache, and yes disk cache is enabled (I have all my cache settings at the defaults). This behavior is on two totally different installs too, one is on my windows 7 desktop which has been running aurora for some time, and the other is my laptop running ubuntu 12.04, and its a fresh install of aurora. The new tab page's thumbnails are quite unreliable on both.

Gmail for example consistently never creates a thumbnail.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I tried clearing my cache, and yes disk cache is enabled (I have all my cache settings at the defaults). This behavior is on two totally different installs too, one is on my windows 7 desktop which has been running aurora for some time, and the other is my laptop running ubuntu 12.04, and its a fresh install of aurora. The new tab page's thumbnails are quite unreliable on both.

Gmail for example consistently never creates a thumbnail.

I think might be there was one patch which yet not landed on Aurora. I try to find that one.

[Semtex]

With today's Nightly, Mozilla has turned this Browser into a Fugly mess. The Home and arrow buttons look terrible.

Most Users say that :lol: , hope someone handy will push some user script to get buttons border back, foxxyn8 come back!! ;)

[torrentthief]

can't believe they are integrating pdf.js when there are 258 issues logged and with it being so slow at rendering, they really should hold off :(

[ViperAFK]

can't believe they are integrating pdf.js when there are 258 issues logged and with it being so slow at rendering, they really should hold off :(

To be fair it will be landing in the bleeding edge nightly build.

[torrentthief]

just found out that it will be disabled by default :) They are testing how it integrates well and hope more people will test it out to find bugs and fix them which is a good idea.

[Anthonyd]

Pdf.js ( Default inbuilt HTML5 based PDF reader) is landing to tomorrow's nightly :) Bye bye foxit/adobe plugins :)

I might be a little off topic, buy why would anyone wants another PDF reader ?

The best behavior IMO is to open PDF files with the default application installed on your OS. Adobe reader is blasing fast to start since a while. This also causes less security issue and Mozilla is wasting a lot of time into such things.

[ViperAFK]

I might be a little off topic, buy why would anyone wants another PDF reader ?

The best behavior IMO is to open PDF files with the default application installed on your OS. Adobe reader is blasing fast to start since a while. This also causes less security issue and Mozilla is wasting a lot of time into such things.

Personally I think its a good idea. I love chrome's integrated reader. We should not need a whole separate application for opening pdfs in this day and age, it just seems archaic, especially one as bloated as adobe reader :p. If I do have to use a separate reader I use something really lightweight like Sumatra.

[Anthonyd]

Personally I think its a good idea. I love chrome's integrated reader. We should not need a whole separate application for opening pdfs in this day and age, it just seems archaic, especially one as bloated as adobe reader :p. If I do have to use a separate reader I use something really lightweight like Sumatra.

How is Adobe Reader "bloated"? Be constructive plz, else your post will be considered as fud.

Also, when reading PDF from the file explorer, why would it open Chrome? Yes you need a whole separate application for opening PDF. The Windows 8 reader is almost perfect, it just needs to be opened multiple times at once and per pages printing option (although this one is related to WinRT, not the reader), I don't see why I'd need another PDF reader.

[Orry Verducci]

How is Adobe Reader "bloated"? Be constructive plz, else your post will be considered as fud.

Also, when reading PDF from the file explorer, why would it open Chrome? Yes you need a whole separate application for opening PDF. The Windows 8 reader is almost perfect, it just needs to be opened multiple times at once and per pages printing option (although this one is related to WinRT, not the reader), I don't see why I'd need another PDF reader.

Strictly speaking it won't be another PDF reader, I'm not sure how Chome works but I believe the intention is to still keep PDFs associated with Adobe Reader or whatever application it is you have installed, just if you open a PDF on the internet rather than loading a plugin it can display it in the browser natively.

Given how common PDFs are now, it makes sense to include PDF rendering support in much the same way the browsers support other common formats like images and video. It also means Mozilla can optimize it to work in Firefox as efficiently as possible, and fix security issues immediately as part of the usual updates to Firefox, rather than waiting on 3rd party developers to 'fix their plugins'.

It also has the immediate benefit that you can view PDFs straight away without having to download Adobe Reader, which may not be a big deal for us, but you'd be surprised how many times I've been asked by friends and family "why won't it open PDFs" when they get new computers not realising they have to go to the Adobe site and download the reader.