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Firefox 76 Now Available on Mac With Improved Password Management Features
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It's most likely never going to happen because they hard code their own browser chrome instead of using the OS's built-in UI elements. So actually, it would be quite difficult.
It's most likely never going to happen because they hard code their own browser chrome instead of using the OS's built-in UI elements. So actually, it would be quite difficult.
you mean like this: ?
It’s why I use it too (one of many reasons). With a 3rd party password manager, I’m not tied down to a browser or an operating system.
It’s getting to the point for me that if it’s not cross platform, I don’t want it.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to illustrate/ask... But that's not a native macOS experience if that's what you're implying.
I was using Brave on all my platforms but the bookmark sync is so unreliable. I went back to Firefox as it works well on all my platforms and mobile. Bookmark syncing is very reliable and sync tabs.
I have issues saving a book mark on iOS in Firefox in a certain folder. It only lets me save it the mobile folder.
Been using since Firebird as well for Windows. I've tried Chrome for a few years in concert with Firebird/FireFox ... yet as someone else mentioned Chrome is far too RAM intensive and too many processes running (on any operating system). For me ... FireFox, like Firebird, feels like a browser I can trust/rely on like Netscape. Safari is still primary on my iOS and Mac ... and I update passwords to Firefox with the import 1 time and jump in to change when required. I'm not a fan of storing my passwords to a 3rd party cloud service. Firefox with this version seems to separate passwords into a cloud service as well but it's first party for now it seems.
Not my primary browser now, I’ve been using Firefox since version 1.0, and the recent versions since 57 are awesome. Chrome is now the new IE for me, and we should support different browsers like Safari and Firefox which use a different engine (WebKit and Gecko).
I'm really hyped about the true Picture-in-Picture feature. It was already present in earlier versions of Firefox... but as long as you were on a Firefox window.
Now it is a more consistent experience.
Now it is a more consistent experience.
Talking about pass manager, I migrating to Bitwarden recently, even at free version, it still powerful and safe off course, due nature of open source and checked routinely by contributor itself, so nothing fishy.
Weird that they mention this in the release notes of this version, as PiP has been integrated since at least Firefox 72. 🤔
A great feature, but I would recommend abstracting your password management from the browser. I highly recommend bitwarden since it's open source and is less expensive.
It's most likely never going to happen because they hard code their own browser chrome instead of using the OS's built-in UI elements. So actually, it would be quite difficult.
I know, but the tweak to the app will make the dropdown menus and whatnot dark as well. The only thing to be careful of is that there are no areas of poor contrast. More likely than not the current dark theme takes care of that already. I had the same thing with Sublime Text, which uses its own UI, and I made the tweak to the app myself, which worked. I haven't bothered to apply the tweak to Firefox as I imagined Mozilla would do it soon enough, but dark mode has been available for almost two years now.
To be clear, I'm not expecting them to produce a fully native UI for macOS. They can use the dark theme they are using now, but allow the OS to render menus and the about dialog chrome in dark mode with a simple setting that lets macOS know there won't be any contrast issues.
Out of curiosity I did try the tweak and the border around the chrome did change as you would expect on a dark mode app (there's a subtle difference), but the context menus were still rendering light but with worse contrast lol. I guess the tweak that works for simpler apps isn't enough for Firefox. This is the command I used:
Bash:
defaults write org.mozilla.firefox NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 0
Bloated? Not sure what you mean. Plugins?
It’s definitely zippier since v70 as they’ve leveraged CoreAnimation etc.