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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by unhammer on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:26AM (#24565670)
Try the very latest release (81). I wrote earlier[0] that FF79 was too slow to start, buggy on tab switches, and missing most recent sites on the new tab. That's all been fixed as of FF81 as far as I can see.

I also really like the new swipe-url-to-switch-tabs feature =D

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280554

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by conradfr on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:27AM (#24568171)
The last update seems to have added yet another unnecessary click to access a pinned site (whatever it's called).

It used to be "click on the url bar -> click big site preview", now it's "click on the tab counter -> click the plus icon -> click to dismiss some overlay -> click small site icon".

Thanks Mozilla, I hate it.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by endless1234 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:39AM (#24576597)
Yeah, it's not great. But you can get to "new tab" by longpressing the tab counter thingy. Yep, I noticed it by accident.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by conradfr on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:00PM (#24582243)
Ha, not bad, it puts the action where you finger is already on the screen and it removes on step (the url/search overlay).

Thanks !

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by antman on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:52PM (#24570533)
Same think with sharing button, also added a significant delay to the sharing menu for good measure.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by TheRealPomax on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:40AM (#24568317)
Then try it on a tablet, and go "What is this BS?" and start using Chrome, despite the fact that there is no NoScript, about:config, etc.

Oh wait, no, just NoScript, because about:config doesn't work in Firefox for Android anymore.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by Dahoon on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:41PM (#24571035)
About:config works just fine on my Android phone with Firefox 81.1.1-beta5. What seems to be the problem?
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by neckardt on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:03PM (#24573768)
about:config was not working on my Android phone, 80.1.3. Ran the latest update to 81.1.1, still not working. Guess it might be in the next release?
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by dblohm7 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:39PM (#24574749)
It is only enabled on Nightly and Beta.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by neckardt on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:45PM (#24574771)
Why is that? about:config is something I use all the time.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by marumari on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:53AM (#24578119)
Because huge chunks of are broken in the new browser engine, and could leave your browser in an unrecoverable state.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by dblohm7 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:39AM (#24579645)
(I work on GeckoView at Mozilla.)

about:config prefs are not "broken," but many of them work much differently in GeckoView than they work in desktop.

Setting some prefs to the wrong value could completely disconnect Gecko from the embedding app.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by marumari on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:57AM (#24579895)
I guess we just have different definitions of what "broken" means, since disconnecting Gecko sounds fairly broken to me. :)
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by panpanna on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:59AM (#24565934)
Just updated and you are correct, 81 feels much snappier!
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