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What's New in Firefox Post-Australis

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 20 2014, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the love-it-or-hate-it dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

The long expected, and often dreaded, Australis user interface for Firefox will have become fact a couple weeks from now. For those of us who don't immediately jump back to the last ESR build without it, rage quit web browsing entirely, start using lynx in protest, or just say fork it, Martin Brinkmann over at Ghacks has an interesting writeup on further UI changes being proposed. The only thing I found interesting are the changes proposed for the context menu but, as always, your mileage may vary.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @07:41PM (#33686)

    I've been using Seamonkey since I got sick of FF breaking my extensions every few weeks, and it seems to be very usable, although there are a few UI irritations I have with it (about:config doesn't respect the setting for placing the `close tab' button ON the tab, for example).

    For those who are swearing off Mozilla entirely, Midori [midori-browser.org] (based on Webkit) seems to have increased its noscript capabilities to the point where I can now pick and choose which domains to allow (instead of a global on/off toggle) on a certain page. You have to enable the `NoJS' extension, however. I haven't seen that on any other webkit-based browser.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 20 2014, @10:20PM (#33748)

    Midori doesn't run on Mac OS X? A webkit browser that doesn't run on Mac ... hmm. Their downloads page makes it clear that Mac is not supported, but its hard to tell what Midori's requirements are. From their website:

    On which platforms does Midori run currently?
    Midori is basically very portable and should run on all platforms that its dependencies support.

    Those are some mighty nice meaningless words considering Midori doesn't list what its dependancies are.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 21 2014, @02:27PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 21 2014, @02:27PM (#33979)

    I've been wondering why NoScript doesn't already do this since I started using it...if I want to actually *use* facebook (I know, I know...) I *have* to unblock the domain. But then every other site can pull whatever shit from it that I specifically don't want them to be able to do.

    For an extension that seems designed to minimize XSS*, it sure seems to have given up in the 8th inning.

    * Yeah, I'm probably using the term wrong.

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