Firefox 39.0 Brings New Features, HTML5 Changes

[xeekei]

The biggest problem I have with Firefox is that it refuses to save my Firefox Sync password. It might have something to do with me using GNOME Keyring to store all my passwords, but it works with Chromium and everything else, so...

[andrei_me]

The performance with the 10something multi-thread is better

Probably you are referring to e10s, electrolysis, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis


I'm using the nightly builds, besides some quirks with Google Sheets and my Intel mesa driver, it is pretty stable.

Besides new APIs, each releases improves the memory consumption, those improvements are explained better on https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/

[treba]

The biggest problem I have with Firefox is that it refuses to save my Firefox Sync password. It might have something to do with me using GNOME Keyring to store all my passwords, but it works with Chromium and everything else, so...

gnome keyring is broken for some time now in firefox
for thunderbird now, too. Hoping for a new version

[Pajn]

hurry up with finishing HTML5

Firefox is generally very good. What are you missing?

[monraaf]

I don't like Firefox on Linux because it is still wasting space. Tabs should be in titlebar since 2008 when Chrome was released. People were attracted to it because it was so clean, simple and minimalistic compared to all other browsers of that time. Firefox is always the last to get cool stuff. It was one of the last browsers to implement speed dial (top sites) tab. Averege people care about usability more than about HTML standards.

[finalzone]

I don't like Firefox on Linux because it is still wasting space. Tabs should be in titlebar since 2008 when Chrome was released.

Have you tried HTitle extension?

[grndzro]

I don't like Firefox on Linux because it is still wasting space. Tabs should be in titlebar since 2008 when Chrome was released. People were attracted to it because it was so clean, simple and minimalistic compared to all other browsers of that time. Firefox is always the last to get cool stuff. It was one of the last browsers to implement speed dial (top sites) tab. Averege people care about usability more than about HTML standards.

Htitle, and Hide caption titlebar plus have been available for quite a while.

[schmidtbag]

Firefox is generally very good. What are you missing?

Off the top of my head, MSE needs improvement, rendering performance could be better, and some things like the "date" input type doesn't work properly. Overall FF is decent with HTML5, just has room for improvement.

[liam]

Eh, I've seen some pretty good releases in the past 2 years. I've been using it for a long while myself, but I'll probably be switching away from it pretty soon. If they can adopt PPAPI I might switch back.

But yeah, they do really need to stop adding this stupid misc crap and hurry up with finishing HTML5 and GTK3.

Ppapi is dead, Jim.

[liam]

I don't like Firefox on Linux because it is still wasting space. Tabs should be in titlebar since 2008 when Chrome was released. People were attracted to it because it was so clean, simple and minimalistic compared to all other browsers of that time. Firefox is always the last to get cool stuff. It was one of the last browsers to implement speed dial (top sites) tab. Averege people care about usability more than about HTML standards.

Use full screen then. That hides everything except the webview. What's nice about it vs other browser implementations of fs is that you can mouse to the top of the screen and get a nice animated pulldown of just the tabs.