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darael said:
Just tried the Proton GUI on the latest Firefox nightly build and I have to say it looks gash and obnoxious. And that's being polite.

The current tab stands out too much. And why does the address bar always have an annoying blue box around it that distracts me from my content?

I get the feeling it's trying to attract Chrome users by looking a bit like it. But in actual fact the design is so garish, it will probably put those users off, as well as existing Firefox users. Are they deliberately trying to kill Firefox off? :(
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Haven't used it proper but had a quick look and it looked dated to me as well as clashing. Wasn't impressed.
 
darael said:
Just tried the Proton GUI on the latest Firefox nightly build and I have to say it looks gash and obnoxious. And that's being polite.

The current tab stands out too much. And why does the address bar always have an annoying blue box around it that distracts me from my content?

I get the feeling it's trying to attract Chrome users by looking a bit like it. But in actual fact the design is so garish, it will probably put those users off, as well as existing Firefox users. Are they deliberately trying to kill Firefox off? :(
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You can tone it down. I don't actually mind Proton once I've tweaked it.

Set the view to Compact Mode (while you can!) in Customise > Density > Compact. Then try these in user.js (or manually in about:config):

Code: 
// Enable Proton UI
user_pref("browser.proton.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.appmenu.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.tabs.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.toolbar.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.urlbar.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.modals.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.proton.infobars.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.aboutwelcome.design", true);
user_pref("browser.disableResetPrompt", true);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.highlights", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts.havePinned", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites", false);
user_pref("browser.onboarding.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.trimURLs", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.default.sites", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.discoverystreamfeed", false); // [FF66+]
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.snippets", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", true);

If it really bothers you, you can get rid of the blue outline by editing the browser CSS via usercss - see here for info.

arc@css said:
Is anyone else finding Firefox crashing a lot at present? I keep getting tabs crashing when using YouTube.

I'll have to check my settings.
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Sounds like a dodgy extension or buggered profile. No issues here across Firefox ESR, Stable or Nightly, on Linux, macOS 11 Big Sur or Windows 10 Enterprise x64. Try the hamburger menu > Help > Restart with addons disabled. If that doesn't work try a fresh profile (keep your existing one!) in about : profiles - then launch profile in new window, and see if it still happens. Odds are it won't.

Edit: I miss being able to tick disable smilies per post. Stupid things messing up my shortcuts. :p
 
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It would be nice if they gave us back the option to block alll auto playing videos. I used to be able to block it in the config but they removed that sometime ago. I have ticked every possible option but sites like espn/F1 and several tech sites (Toms hardware being one of the worst) still have autoplay videos and some even follow me down the page. I hate this intrusive rubbish. If I wanted to watch a video I would click on it. There has to be some way to block them?
 
pastymuncher said:
It would be nice if they gave us back the option to block alll auto playing videos. I used to be able to block it in the config but they removed that sometime ago. I have ticked every possible option but sites like espn/F1 and several tech sites (Toms hardware being one of the worst) still have autoplay videos and some even follow me down the page. I hate this intrusive rubbish. If I wanted to watch a video I would click on it. There has to be some way to block them?
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You got a link to one of those sites that have a auto playing video ?? I just checked the front page of Toms Hardware and clicked a couple random links from there but no autoplaying for me.
 
pastymuncher said:
It would be nice if they gave us back the option to block alll auto playing videos. I used to be able to block it in the config but they removed that sometime ago. I have ticked every possible option but sites like espn/F1 and several tech sites (Toms hardware being one of the worst) still have autoplay videos and some even follow me down the page. I hate this intrusive rubbish. If I wanted to watch a video I would click on it. There has to be some way to block them?
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They made it ridiculous, but it's possible. For user.js:

Code: 
user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 1);
user_pref("media.autoplay.block-webaudio", true);
user_pref("media.autoplay.allow-muted", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed", false);

Or type them in to about:config as required. You may need to create a couple of the keys as booleans manually.
 
TheSwede said:
You got a link to one of those sites that have a auto playing video ?? I just checked the front page of Toms Hardware and clicked a couple random links from there but no autoplaying for me.
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Here you go. ESPN/F1 is a right pain. Click on a article and if it has a video at the top it will auto play with sound. Tomshardware doesn't do it now but it may have been somewhere else.
 
Rainmaker said:
They made it ridiculous, but it's possible. For user.js:

Code: 
user_pref("media.autoplay.default", 1);
user_pref("media.autoplay.block-webaudio", true);
user_pref("media.autoplay.allow-muted", false);
user_pref("media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed", false);

Or type them in to about:config as required. You may need to create a couple of the keys as booleans manually.
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Tried that and restarted, it doesn't work for the ESPN/F1 site linked to above.
 
Has anybody experienced any slowdowns of Firefox? For the last few weeks, I've noticed that some websites take a while to load or that some downloads take forever. Yet when I do the same in Internet Explorer, the download completes virtually instantly or the site loads as fast as you would expect.

I've not tried removing or disabling extensions yet, as I went to see if there are any potential quick fixes.
 
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