firefox offers best technical advancement since sliced bread.
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You can also mute the sound by just clicking the speaker. Not exactly ground breaking but good none the less.
Yeah, I prefer Firefox, but this feature has always been something I've loved Chrome for. I've often moved from tab to tab trying to find the origin of the sound and then just getting frustrated and closing the entire browser. I hate ads that make sounds when the tab is inactive.tippy2k2 said:
OT: I thought this thread was going to be about the improved privacy mode in Firefox. It now blocks ads that leave a trace on your computer and tracks you. That's something I consider quite nice.
Yeah... I was gonna say. Opera has been doing this for quite a few versions...
Probably one of the things that they get with basically no effort from using chromium as the base for it...
Ugh...
So many lost features because of that switch though.
I mean, it took forever to even get bookmarks back. Wow.
I miss being able to make tab groups... >_>
Probably one of the things that they get with basically no effort from using chromium as the base for it...
Ugh...
So many lost features because of that switch though.
I mean, it took forever to even get bookmarks back. Wow.
I miss being able to make tab groups... >_>
The "Sliced bread" thing is actually really impressive considering how pre-sliced, packaged bread that didn't go stale is a fairly recent phenomenon that took a fairly long time of technical achievement to develop. It also changed the ways in which and the amounts of bread was consumed. It was originally marketed as ?the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped? - which has since become the current saying of "the greatest thing since sliced bread".Barbas said:
Here's a cool breakdown:
http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-sliced-bread/
I still keep the old version installed, even though I never use it...CrystalShadow said:
I miss the themes (no, changing the speed dial background is not a theme), especially the transparent ones. My old version with IBIS inspire still looks so much better than the current one. I also can't stand the way it opens a new tab next to the active one instead of at the end of the tab bar, but classic tabs extension fixes that. Too bad it can't fix the tab grouping.
Yep, that's been in chrome and for quite a while. It's not that amazing. Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.
Yeah, I think I still have version 12 installed, but it was developing a lot of weird performance and other issues.Major_Tom said:
And given that codebase is no longer being used...
Well, some of the lost features, while minor, are definitely frustrating.
yes it does. its fully supported on windows, but, if your using Linux your have to go into the 'about:config' settings to enable 60FPS as the codecs are not open-source.mad825 said:
That was very interesting to read. Thank you. While I think the saying's outdated by this stage as the invention's surely been supplanted by more influential things, I will say it's a good way to honour the dedication of an inventor whose efforts significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people during and after his lifetime.chikusho said:
As a Chrome user (I finally got fed up with Firefox eating every ounce of memory it could get its grubby little digital hands on), this is how I feel about OPs announcement.
I mean, it is a fantastic step in the right direction... but it ain't new.
I mean, it is a fantastic step in the right direction... but it ain't new.
Yeah - few years back, I decided to go with Opera as my second browser. Until then it was Firefox, then Chrome and very occasionally I had used Opera, so I basically wanted to swap the last two. When I installed Opera, I wanted to change some fairly trivial setting - can't remember right now what it is, but it was something fairly obvious that I assumed should have been changeable. But I couldn't - I went to the options and...erm, how should I put it - there were no options. There was a single screen of few settings you could choose and going to advanced revealed something like 3-4 more but, it's not what I'd call "options". Especially from Opera which is a browser I know as giving users a large amount of ability to tinker with it. I was confused, for a bit I thought I must have installed some bootlegged version of Opera. I had to google around until I found what had happened.CrystalShadow said:
With the lack of any sensible options, I had to sadly abandon Opera. And I did like Opera until then, I knew it as the browser which drove the innovation and user experience in other browsers - lots of features that became a de facto standard for browsers were started by them - for example tabs and userscripts. I was really sad the browser had moved away from this. Sure, it's still around, and sure, it does do some stuff here and there but it's not really the same, especially when it scrapped some interesting features it had, like tab groups. I waited for so long for this to be added to other browsers but...it wasn't. And I don't think it would now.
Yeah, it's not what it once was. Honestly, initially it seemed mostly like an anemic clone of Chrome with most of the features missing after the switchover.DoPo said:
It's improved, but it's still pretty far off what it once was.
Though speaking of settings I remember in the old version their were several options and setting screens that weren't obvious.
You had to put in the correct thing in the address bar, that was literally the only way to get at some of the more advanced settings...
(There were a lot of them, but hidden amongst like 6 or so such 'settings' pages).
Not sure if any of them still exist, but with the general lack of most of the more complex features of the older opera... I doubt it.