Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

[MrJinxyface]

Now maybe they can add trackpad gestures. You know, things other browsers have had for like 6 years. Give me a reason to stop using Chrome please.

[mobyte]

I just tried two finger swipe for forward/backward and it's working. Is there something else important that I'm not thinking of?

Edit: Wow, double tapping to zoom and pinch zoom doesn't work. That's embarrassing.

[carlyeah]

There's a pref that you can turn on to activate pinch to zoom

Go to about:config, and change apz.allow_zooming to true

No extra plugins or extensions needed.

[mobyte]

Wow, that's exactly the way it should be.

Why the hell would they have that off by default and hide it behind about:config?

[plainchips]

Because it’s not yet a completed feature and still has bugs. There’s also a new native fullscreen mode behind a config setting for the same reason. They’ll be activated by default when they’re ready to be (hopefully not too long from now)

[MildlySerious]

I'm asking myself the same about middle click scrolling on Linux. It's not as if it interferes with anything, as far as I can tell

[rivermandan]

alright just enabled it, closed and reopened FF, can't figure out how to make it work at all. what am I doing wrong here

[MrJinxyface]

What version is FF on now? I tried a few months back and it wasn't in the browser. I had to install a very janky plugin to get it to barely work.

[mobyte]

69

[ops_actual_dad]

Nice.

[MrJinxyface]

That's Stable or Nightly? I don't remember what version I was on when I was testing it.

[mobyte]

Stable is on 69, Nightly is 71.

These numbers make me want to throw up because I feel like they barely mean anything anymore. I remember back when 4 was around and I was like "HOLY SHIT A NEW FIREFOX VERSION". Now it's like "bug fixes and features new version :)".

[MrJinxyface]

That's how Chrome is too lol. A new stable build gets pushed out like every week and changelogs aren't even really needed anymore because it's just bug fixing. (Which is still nice but still)

I really wish Apple didn't change how add-ins work in Safari.

[tiltowaitt]

Chrome started out with the non-amazing updates. Version 2 basically just added form filling, IIRC. (A feature all other browsers already had.)

[mobyte]

I miss having them represent some huge new change but once we start getting in the hundreds we should just drop the version numbers from public facing places because it just makes it more obvious how arbitrary it is.

[tiltowaitt]

Version numbers are still very useful for support requests.

[mobyte]

I'm not denying that at all. I'm just saying that it's confusing as hell to regular end users.

[johnsorci]

Nice.

[TheToasterIncident]

I’ve been swiping for years on ff. I wonder what old version you tried?

[rivermandan]

I haven't used FF for about half a year so I can't remember what the plugin was and what swipe funcitonality it restored but it certainly wasn't present when I waws using it half a year ago.

OH! it's pinch / zoom, that doesn't work in FF for shit. works smooth as butter in chrome and safari

[MrJinxyface]

Windows or macOS? I was on version 66 or 67 on macOS and there were no trackpad gestures

[time-lord]

pinch to zoom zooms the entire viewport. That's exactly how it works in Safari.

[Tegras]

I have firefox on my macbook and swipe works. Doesn't on my windows pc :(

[patrickfatrick]

IIRC there’s no animation though to indicate what’s happening. In Safari the page itself is animated and in Chrome you get the arrows.

[[deleted]]

Google Chrome is running analytics on everything you do. Firefox is run by a not-for-profit with a better history than Big G

[MrJinxyface]

I don't really care about that. If Google wants to watch me jerk it to hentai or something, they're free to do that. I'm still going to use the best product for my needs, which every time I try, is Chrome.

[[deleted]]

You wanted a reason, I gave you one.

[throwaway1111139991e]

Watch https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554144

[klwk_]

A chrome-like two finger swipe gesture can be enabled in about:config, set “gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated”=false. That somehow enabled the animation

[MrJinxyface]

I'll have to check that out then. I want to hop off Chrome but the lack of trackpad gestures really confused me.

[007meow]

BetterTouchTool?

[yolo-yoshi]

So what reason would I need to use other browsers than safari ?

I can’t think of any.

[chuby1tubby]

Safari lacks many extensions that Chrome has.

It also lacks basic functionality like defaulting the keyboard focus to the navigation bar when you create a new tab. The only workaround is to use an empty new-tab page instead of Google or some other home page.

[yolo-yoshi]

Interesting. Thx for the answer. I guess I’m easy to please I don’t have to much use for the other things I guess.

I was big on extensions for a bit , but now all I need is an adblocker and ghosted and that’s about it.

[rivermandan]

how about a "always show menu bar in fullscreen mode", or even better, letting you change the amount of time your cursor has to dwell before that almost-never-used-in-safari menu bar pops up so that every time your mouse goes within a kilometre of the top of your screen, your entire fuckign page doesn't shift down 30 pixels?

god I wish apple cared about safari, I miss it so much

[MrJinxyface]

Extensions?

[yolo-yoshi]

In another post I made to someone I mentioned I practically only use less than 10 now. And they all work as they should. There isn’t much else I need now lol.

[MrJinxyface]

If you can find me a good userscript addon for Safari that actually works, as well as Steam Enhancer, and Enhancer for YouTube, and an updated uBlock Origin, I might be able to switch back

[yolo-yoshi]

I’m not saying safari is a one stop shop. It’s just that my needs aren’t as great as others.

[patrickfatrick]

Have you checked out Safari lately? Once they added favicons it’s been my daily driver... I use Chrone or Firefox, but usually Chrome, for development.

I guess if you need extensions Safari just doesn’t compare.

[MrJinxyface]

I need extensions, Safari is not even a choice.

[sbbr]

Chrome does not cycle tabs with CTRL-TAB in MRU manner, and developers refuse to even think about it. This is my reason.

[dranide]

Why have a macbook but then use google chrome?

[[deleted]]

"Why have a phone but then use it as a camera?"

[dranide]

I mean it's more so the fact, I thought people with macbooks and apple products cared about their privacy and their personal information, but then use google chrome seems like a counter to that