Firefox 29?

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Firefox updates

I was shocked how it had updated yesterday and saw no threads… Was waiting to see.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0/releasenotes/

Sadly stylish seems broken and the other add-on to arrange tabs, sizes and so on. It also seems to be screwing with colour profiles on OS X. Seems undersaturated…

Do people suffer problems with the tab mini preview squares not updating? Been like this before v29. Still the same.

 

[marc2003]

stylish works for websites (for example my dark ocuk theme is running fine). if you mean purely for customising the firefox UI then your old scripts may well be obsolete given the changes.

i've not tried any of these but i saw a few customisation addons listed on another forum...

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/989780-meet-firefox-next/page-234#entry596379001

edit: this as well https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/

 

[IrishChr1s]

I haven't used ff in about a year, as chrome managed all my addons and bookmarks reasonably better.

Just installed ff and imported everything, websites are loading considerably faster, even though I thought chrome was lightening running off a ssd.

Going to stick with ff for a week or so to see what else has changed.

 

[KIA]

Loving the refreshed UI. I wish they would improve the pop-up blocker.

 

[mrk]

Use AdBlock Plus, I've not seen a popup in years with it being used in conjunction with the built in PB.

Gamepad API finalized and enabled

This will screw up time management for a lot of people I guess

Edit*
Got it how I like it with classic theme restorer tweaks:

 

[Columbo]

Loving the refreshed UI. I wish they would improve the pop-up blocker.

As mrk has said, just use adblock. I can't remember the last popup I saw.

 

[darael]

I didn't expect the new GUI when I installed the update. It looks rank so far.

 

[Elevon]

I hope they release an updated ForecastFox for FF29,I always use that.


Here's mine,

 

[meandu229]

Gotta say Im impressed, it seems just as fast (if not faster) than chrome,, very responsive.

 

[mrk]

I ;love the little animation when you click the bookmark button star and the star pings out and flies into the bookmark button. It's the little things

 

[darael]

Any way of getting rid of the ridiculous oversized buttons? I don't need buttons as big as these, esepcially the back button, nor do I need all the padding around the address bar.

 

[mrk]

Install the classic restorer linked earlier. It has small icon options.

 

[randal]

What theme is that Elevon? Ees a nice.

 

[darael]

It's pretty bad when you need to install an addon just to restore past functionality!

 

[Elevon]

What theme is that Elevon? Ees a nice.

This one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/three-wolf-moon-shirt/

 

[meandu229]

It's pretty bad when you need to install an addon just to restore past functionality!

cough Windows 8 cough

 

[randal]

This one https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/three-wolf-moon-shirt/

Thanks very much.

edit - Just realised it's got wolves all over it lol, just liked the layout/transparency but the wolves... lol.

 

[meandu229]

Seems quite light on the old ram front, quick test of the same 7 tabs open and chrome using 699mb(added all chrome processes up) and firefox using 520mb. Both after a clean start.

 

[darael]

cough Windows 8 cough

I won't even enter that arguement. All I will say is if you install StartIsBack and ignore the start screen entirely, it looks pretty much the same as Windows 7 after a couple of simple tweaks.

/cough

 

[marc2003]

i found a handy bit of stylish code if you're running a custom windows 7 theme

http://userstyles.org/styles/100947/remove-foggy-background-in-firefox-australis

by default, you get this nasty fog effect...

and here's what it looks like after...