Firefox 43 Now Officially Available, But GTK3 Gets Disabled

[monraaf]

Does GTK3 mean that Firefox will finally have CSD (tabs in titlebar) by default? That's awesome!!! I've been waiting this for so long!!!
It had that in Windows version for years but Firefox for Linux was second class citizen. Better later than never!
I'm still using Firefox even though it is lagging behind other browsers but news like this makes me happy! It proves that Firefox is not dead, it just takes more time to embrace cool new underlying technologies!

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Keep gtk2 or even better port it to QT4/QT5 ... i don't have any gnome3 trash on my computer nor gtk3

gnome people already said that GTK3 is for gnome usage and it will change for gnome... they don't care about other projects using GTK... so leave GTK3 alone or you will be sorry later. This is why several tools switched to QT, FLTK or keep GKT2

Are you twelve, or just think like a twelve year old? I'll take GNOME 3.18+ over any KDE product. I use Qt 5 products, but the KDE stuff is 99% junk. There isn't a single KDE app I care to use. If you want to see how C++ can leave a bad taste in your mouth just look at KDE on top of Qt.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Firefox/Iceweasel 42 is a bug POS throughout. Randomly crashing with or without flash and no plugins or extensions enabled. 46 Alpha Nightly is more stable. It rarely crashes. For a company who flag ship product is still the browser it is a giant mess and memory hog.

[foobaz]

I'm disappointed. I have GTK3 installed, but not GTK2. Why doesn't Mozilla care about users like me? I have a hi-dpi screen so GTK2 apps look terrible, whereas GTK3 has hi-dpi support so those apps look great. I use nightly builds of Firefox (Aurora) for the GTK3 support. Even GDM and LightDM require GTK3 these days.

[higuita]

Keep gtk2 or even better port it to QT4/QT5 ... i don't have any gnome3 trash on my computer nor gtk3

gnome people already said that GTK3 is for gnome usage and it will change for gnome... they don't care about other projects using GTK... so leave GTK3 alone or you will be sorry later. This is why several tools switched to QT, FLTK or keep GKT2

[GreatEmerald]

Well, you've just described all the distros an enterprise would use.

But the Firefox an enterprise would use is ESR.

[schmidtbag]

Well, you've just described all the distros an enterprise would use.

That's irrelevant - enterprise hardware won't have a reason to run firefox, and if they did, firefox would be outdated along with everything else.

[Dea1993]

i've just update, and on my notebook firefox 43 use gtk3.
furthermore, now use ffmpeg, and now html5 support on youtube is finally complete (we can select every resolution)

[bug77]

Jeesus christ! If user's distro is not stale shit like RHEL or some LTS fossil

Well, you've just described all the distros an enterprise would use.
Still, distros shipping GTK3 will most likely compile FF w/ GTK3 support enabled anyway.

[emblemparade]

The news is that just the binaries downloaded from Mozilla will have GTK+2. Distribution packagers can decide for themselves what compilation flags that want to use.

However, I imagine that most distributions will also be conservative and go with GTK+2 for now. This is a huge change to a very critical application and it's best to go slowly!

It actually would be nice if independent packagers (PPA for Ubuntu) would create a firefox-gtk3 package so some of us can help testing right now and help debug before Firefox 44.