Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 06:19:55PM -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote > > Based on what I've read so far, Moonchild is up front about any > breakage, and warns about unsupported compilers or settings. One of our > regulars (Walter Dnes) helps maintain PM for us, too, so that's even > better. :) A

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-10 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-09-11 01:19, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 09/07/2017 05:26 AM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until >> today I found its new version really sucks. >> >> Then I read the comment from author who declared

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/07/2017 07:47 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 07.09.2017 15:20, Danny YUE wrote: > >> Well, I know it is not the perfect place but I don't want to spam my >> inbox with Firefox topics, so that's why I don't subscribe that mail >> list and am asking here. ;-) > > And you believe that

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-10 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/07/2017 05:26 AM, Danny YUE wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until > today I found its new version really sucks. > > Then I read the comment from author who declared that the old version > can *only* be used before (roughly) end of 2017

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
To me it seems as though it is more so a political change not so much a change done for some technical improvement (there aren't any). Mozilla is closer and closer with google, as evidenced by making telemetry opt-out rather than opt-in [1] and all the "safe" browsing and downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Dale wrote: > Danny YUE wrote: >> On 2017-09-08 00:48, Adam Carter wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >>> Hi all, I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Dale
Danny YUE wrote: > On 2017-09-08 00:48, Adam Carter wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until >>> today I found its new version really sucks.

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Danny YUE wrote: > > On 2017-09-08 00:48, Adam Carter wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-09-08 00:48, Adam Carter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until >> today I found its new version really sucks. >> >> Then I read the

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until > today I found its new version really sucks. > > Then I read the comment from author who declared that the old version > can *only* be used

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:38 AM, konsolebox wrote: > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Afterwards I found that it seems Firefox 57 will use a new ecosystem for >> extensions and be more strict for plugin developers. >> >> So Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Dale
bytes...@monksofcool.net wrote: > On 07.09.2017 23:24, Dale wrote: > >> So, it's on topic enough and let's leave it at that. > Sigh. What you quoted was not part of the OP. To cut things short: > *Plonk* > > -R > It's in the 5th message in the thread.  I quoted his reply to Ralph.  Maybe you

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 22:24:09 BST Dale wrote: > Ralph Seichter wrote: > > On 07.09.17 22:04, Dale wrote: > >> If he's using or planning to use Firefox on Gentoo, that is on topic. > > > > If you read the OP again, you'll find that it had no relation to Gentoo > > whatsoever. Danny

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Dale
Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 07.09.17 22:04, Dale wrote: > >> If he's using or planning to use Firefox on Gentoo, that is on topic. > If you read the OP again, you'll find that it had no relation to Gentoo > whatsoever. Danny himself agreed this is not the right mailing list, so > please let's leave

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.17 22:04, Dale wrote: > If he's using or planning to use Firefox on Gentoo, that is on topic. If you read the OP again, you'll find that it had no relation to Gentoo whatsoever. Danny himself agreed this is not the right mailing list, so please let's leave it at that. -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Dale
Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 07.09.2017 15:20, Danny YUE wrote: > >> Well, I know it is not the perfect place but I don't want to spam my >> inbox with Firefox topics, so that's why I don't subscribe that mail >> list and am asking here. ;-) > And you believe that spamming the inbox people

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-09-07 14:47, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 07.09.2017 15:20, Danny YUE wrote: > >> Well, I know it is not the perfect place but I don't want to spam my >> inbox with Firefox topics, so that's why I don't subscribe that mail >> list and am asking here. ;-) > > And

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.2017 15:20, Danny YUE wrote: > Well, I know it is not the perfect place but I don't want to spam my > inbox with Firefox topics, so that's why I don't subscribe that mail > list and am asking here. ;-) And you believe that spamming the inbox people interested in Gentoo (that's why we

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-09-07 13:00, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 07.09.2017 14:26, Danny YUE wrote: > >> I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until >> today I found its new version really sucks. > > If you're curious about Mozilla's move to the WebExtensions

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 07.09.2017 14:26, Danny YUE wrote: > I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until > today I found its new version really sucks. If you're curious about Mozilla's move to the WebExtensions API, see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/11/23/add-ons-in-2017/ . You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Rasmus Thomsen
Hi, I feel like firefox 57 is an awesome release, it's finally competitive with chromium in terms of speed. It also looks a lot better than older ff versions ( IMO ). It's kinda sad that they broke the addon compatibility, but I guess that was required for progressing. Regards, Rasmus

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread konsolebox
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Danny YUE wrote: > Afterwards I found that it seems Firefox 57 will use a new ecosystem for > extensions and be more strict for plugin developers. > > So Firefox gurus, what do you think about it? Not a guru, but if it's something that

[gentoo-user] What do you think about Firefox 57?

2017-09-07 Thread Danny YUE
Hi all, I have been using FoxyProxy in Firefox for a really long time, until today I found its new version really sucks. Then I read the comment from author who declared that the old version can *only* be used before (roughly) end of 2017 before Firefox 57 and in new version some features must