updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[flexkeyboard]

I personally don't expect anything to come out of the UI design for Firefox next. Remember all those concepts that came out for Firefox 4 that looks really good? Now compare that to what it actually look for FF4+, it's garbage. It's just a bunch of XUL horribly squashed together. They should just disband the UX team. Hell, if it weren't for BoneyardBrew and SoapyHamHocks, I don't know if I would even be looking at Firefox right now.

[mancode20]

For anyone that is using 13.0 Beta 1, did the new download manager make it in? I know smooth scrolling, new home page, and most visted sites upon opening a new tab made it in, so I was curious about that. I assume it might make it into the final version if it hasn't already been implemented.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

But you can easily disable DirectWrite without any addon or whatever (it's an option in the menus). To me it's unlikely that we'll see option for the UI.

Sure (Although that option disables all HWA, you can't disable DirectWrite without disabling Direct2D either), but they shouldn't put every single thing behind a UI visible menu item, the amount of work required would be immense.

People complain about how slow the theme progresses, now think about them maintaining 2-3 themes at the same time, just in case a user hates the new tabs, or new button style, or new site identity block, etc.

[Kaoxt]

I personally don't expect anything to come out of the UI design for Firefox next. Remember all those concepts that came out for Firefox 4 that looks really good? Now compare that to what it actually look for FF4+, it's garbage. It's just a bunch of XUL horribly squashed together. They should just disband the UX team. Hell, if it weren't for BoneyardBrew and SoapyHamHocks, I don't know if I would even be looking at Firefox right now.

If you compare it to the Mockups for Firefox 4, it's pretty darn close. The only difference is really the tabs being "square" compared to how they were more rounded on the edges.

New rounded tabs IMO look great! The default ones we have now IMO are way too plain.

[Anthonyd]

Sure (Although that option disables all HWA, you can't disable DirectWrite without disabling Direct2D either), but they shouldn't put every single thing behind a UI visible menu item, the amount of work required would be immense.

People complain about how slow the theme progresses, now think about them maintaining 2-3 themes at the same time, just in case a user hates the new tabs, or new button style, or new site identity block, etc.

Right, hopefully it can be disabled with an about:config entry.

If i've got enough time later, i'll post you my Firefox Screenshot, to show you how i think it should be done :D

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

For anyone that is using 13.0 Beta 1, did the new download manager make it in? I know smooth scrolling, new home page, and most visted sites upon opening a new tab made it in, so I was curious about that. I assume it might make it into the final version if it hasn't already been implemented.

No, the new download manager did not make it into Firefox 13 beta.

[Kyang]

For anyone else, in the latest Nightly, is the tab strip a little glitchy with the mechanisms it uses to handle overflow? For example, past a certain limit, the arrows are appearing then immediately disappearing with every new tab, and some other glitches.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

For anyone else, in the latest Nightly, is the tab strip a little glitchy with the mechanisms it uses to handle overflow? For example, past a certain limit, the arrows are appearing then immediately disappearing with every new tab, and some other glitches.

The bug (see Bugzilla entry here) has been resolved in today's nightly.

[Kyang]

Okay. Thanks for the quick reply. :) . I didn't even know what was causing it...

Would the scroll bars appearing in the download panel be related to this?

[Pikey]

No, the new download manager did not make it into Firefox 13 beta.

Doesn't seem to have made it into the FF Aurora (14) either .. not for me anyway!

[mancode20]

Doesn't seem to have made it into the FF Aurora (14) either .. not for me anyway!

Isn't there an about:config switch to enable it?

[grayscale]

Does anyone have this problem on the Nightly wherein when the click-to-play is enabled, the Adobe Reader plugin doesn't work? It displays the "click to play" but when clicked, it does not display the PDF. I noticed this since the click-to-play popped up on the nightly but chose to ignore it, well, since it is in the nightly but it's been there for a while now.

[bogas04]

Does anyone have this problem on the Nightly wherein when the click-to-play is enabled, the Adobe Reader plugin doesn't work? It displays the "click to play" but when clicked, it does not display the PDF. I noticed this since the click-to-play popped up on the nightly but chose to ignore it, well, since it is in the nightly but it's been there for a while now.

Possibly a bug , file it.

You can add exceptions for click to play from about:permissions :) or from the dialog

[grayscale]

Oh I see. The exceptions are only based on web sites. I wish we had an option to choose which plugins are automatically disabled by click-to-play. :)

[Orry Verducci]

I've had issues when both Adobe PDF Plugin and PDF.js are installed, where it will display a blank page instead of the PDF, so your issue could be related to that.

[bogas04]

PDFJS development build shows new UI which was shown in a mockup few days ago :)

The scrolling etc is also faster. Clearly a competitive alternative to Adobe's.

(I wish i had OSX , Firefox looks so good! Cant even try hackintosh , AMD/ATI :/ )

Download : mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/extensions/firefox/pdf.js.xpi ( NO RESTART REQUIRED :) )

[bogas04]

And if you dont want to install it , you can try it here (its a webpage demo) http://mozilla.githu...web/viewer.html

[ViperAFK]

Does adblock plus not work for anyone else in ff14 (aurora)? The filter subscription does nothing to block ads, I have to block them manually.

[V23]

Does adblock plus not work for anyone else in ff14 (aurora)? The filter subscription does nothing to block ads, I have to block them manually.

I installed Aurora 14 and ABP on another computer and the filter failed to download the first time so that may be your problem. I went into Ad Block Plus options, filter preferences and it said 'failed' next to Easy List so I selected 'actions' -> 'update filters'.

[grayscale]

I've had issues when both Adobe PDF Plugin and PDF.js are installed, where it will display a blank page instead of the PDF, so your issue could be related to that.

This is my problem but only when click-to-play is enabled regardless if FX's viewer is enabled/disabled. Is there another way of "disabling" it so we can check it?

I guess I'll just wait for the new update. The new viewer looks promising.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I installed Aurora 14 and ABP on another computer and the filter failed to download the first time so that may be your problem. I went into Ad Block Plus options, filter preferences and it said 'failed' next to Easy List so I selected 'actions' -> 'update filters'.

It was issue related to XHR2 so now development build of ABP is perfectly fine and uses WeakMap.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

did the new download manager make it into 14a2 Aurora? I heard it would be in it but disabled by default

if it did make it, how do you enable it

[bogas04]

did the new download manager make it into 14a2 Aurora? I heard it would be in it but disabled by default

if it did make it, how do you enable it

i guess it did not , anyways u can toggle between the two UIs by

browser.download.useToolkitUI
[/CODE]

(use it in about:config)

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Firefox got amazing new stuff in Inbound:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716439

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650353

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720753

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751467

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674225

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503370

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166240

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307039

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748313

[ArialBlue]

Seems like Firefox team may fix their neglected D2D support:

D2D is much more CPU intensive than GDI for chrome drawing.

Firefox got amazing new stuff in Inbound:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=716439

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=650353

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=720753

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=751467

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=674225

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=503370

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=166240

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=307039

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=748313

Nothing amazing about adding more bloated codecs.