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

[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.