My issues are with the windows version, albeit on an old (5 years!!!) and somewhat flaky pc:
1) the 'firefox is already running' dialog, needed by no other application in history (though chrome is a famous memory hog, maybe it just ignores orphaned processes)2) this one is weird - slack and gmail and no other sites take an eternity to load, often it will just give up, the loading spinner will stop though the tab is still blank. multiple refreshes needed to get them to load.3) i can't read messages in slack threads - it opens the sidebar, doesn't load any messages4) slack brought it down completely yesterday
seems to be some bad firefox/slack confluence going on, i know the idiots at slack focus on chrome (you can't do video calls in firefox).
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
Slack posted an advisory yesterday, they were having trouble...
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
i installed the slack app to my desktop but still run slack in Firefox and that seems to have fixed a lot of those issues
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 09:32 (three years ago) link
will give that a go, ta.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
Slack (and gmail, though only about 1/3rd as much as slack ime) is a notorious memory hog. How many workspaces are you using on slack?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
only one!
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Slack and facebook are the biggest memory hogs. Just closing a tab w/ slack or fb in Firefox instantly drops my overall memory usage w/ 15%, according to my memory cleaner app
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
Desktop Firefox is going thru a shonky phase at the moment imo
The Android version is currently dogshit, as others have indicated
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
in Mozilla's slight defense, the Android version now has a back button and a download manager, but the other issues haven't been resolved (including the lack of a tab bar) and the whole thing still feels like a beta. apparently the latest version of Nightly supports add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet and I'm still using Kiwi for the time being even though it's no longer being updated
― (peech) or (buht ih-moh-jee) (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
something i complained about here (back button being disabled when clicking on image urls) is explained here:
https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1254496
instagram and facebook now open in a container in firefox and that ditches all the history / referer details when making the new container. makes sense but i wonder whether i can force it to use a new tab for those links so i still have everything in the original tab.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
firefox has been at the crayons again, changing stuff, making it look dumber.
top bar with the tabs in it now looks a lot taller but the favicons and tab names are the same size so you lose vertical space for no real gain.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
yeah that spacing ffs. I had to create a lot more bookmark folders because eff having to scroll to see my bookmark lists
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
it's annoying
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
had to change that this morning. wordy fix below
about:config <-- in address bar. "accept risk and continue"browser.compactmode.show <--- set to true. exit about:config. maybe restart firefox.
find 'customize' under 'more tools' in the drop down menu that is an icon that looks like 3 small horizontal lines
set density to compact.
protip-- if you use menu bar and bookmarks toolbar, drag the bookmark toolbar items onto the menu bar from the customize screen
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
oops! one more important step-- turn off the bookmarks toolbar if you move the bookmark toolbar items up to the menu bar or never use it.
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
hmm, didn't seem to change anything. Although my Density setting was "Compact (not supported)".
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
try turning off your bookmarks toolbar
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
ah but it's the bookmarks toolbar i want the compact to affect. Is that not possible to change then?
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
i can't confirm it myself because i'm running ESR but apparently setting browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config unfucks things a bit
enjoy it until mozilla inevitably removes it next version
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
There is also browser.uidensity that should be set to 1 (if it isn't already)
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
xp, chih, tried it and things got even more compact :)
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
I think Ste meant the Bookmarks dropdown menu from the menubar was no longer compact. I decided to test disabling all Proton entries in about:config and discovered the one that fixes the issue by resetting to how it was before.
set to false:browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled
and while were at it we might as well set the entry chihuahuau mentioned to false as well:browser.proton.enabled
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
i dunno if this is new but i'm forever closing tabs i don't want to close.
the visible tab is highlighted in a lighter colour than usual, the tab the mouse is over is highlighted using a darker colour than usual. it's easy to glance up, see a highlighted tab and hit middle button to close it without registering it was the wrong kind of highlight.
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link