MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 (8 CPUs, 64-bits)/10.6.8/16 GB RAM. While gradually loosing my patience waiting for the Waterfox version for 10.6.8 that had been announced about a year ago, I was still plodding about desperately with Firefox 45 ESR when I heard of your ArcticFox. Flabbergasting, to say the least. With twice as many extensions, the same quantities of bookmarks and history records, and a profile folder ≈35Mb larger, it takes seconds to launch or quit — as compared to endless minutes with Firefox. Sites that used to take ages to open or refresh now zap through like a charm. These speed factors make AF really invaluable to me. So I can only add my thanks and congratulations to all those that already have been expressed here, and hope that
wicknix will accept donations someday (in BTC, please!)
After importing my Firefox profile (see the comment I'll be posting to #135 above) I ended up with all extensions disabled, and spent a good number of days replacing those that were not compatible. And discovering interesting new ones. As said, about twice as many as I used to have on Fx. Throughout all this fine-tuning I don't remember experiencing a single crash, but I can't recommend enough to frequently backup the AF profile (~/Library/Application Support/Arctic Fox) after every major change: it saved me quite a bit of time when I had to recover a long list of Save-To-Read entries.
Which brings me to a few requests, or some bugs I'd like to see fixed. Please bear with me, and the fact that my slightly burnt-out brain cells have a hard time remembering every single new setting of every single new extension. Meaning that I did try to see if some new extension could be responsible for the misbehaviour, but that I may have missed something.
1. The Title Bar is absent on launch. The only (clumsy) way I can get it to appear is with
Opt/Alt+Ctl+T — a shortcut from one of the Tab extensions that opens a new Private Tab (btw., disabling it didn't make the Title Bar come back.) This produces an empty Title Bar without min/max/close buttons — apparently the default for a Private Tab. Repeating
Opt/Alt+Ctl+T, the page's actual title then shows up — with its min/max/close buttons — and remains in place as long as AF is running. I've tried to take a look into
about:config, but that didn't get me anywhere. I'm definitely not an expert in that environment.
2. In the Download dialog box, the setting "
Do this automatically for files like this from now on" does not get memorised if downloading alternatives are selected, say FlashGot or Turbo Downloader. It's back on the default “
Save File” at a later download. To be honest the alternatives weren't always memorised in Fx either, but at least they were remembered within the same session. Whereas now I have to click about for every single file I'm downloading.
3. I do miss a lot Firefox's
Reader View. The PaleMoon extension is only for v.28 and up. Could you consider implementing it in AF?
4. It seems to be quite random whether site-specific icons (
.ico) appear (and stay) in the History or the Bookmarks. Is it a question of a database that needs to be flushed or something similar? If needed I have no problem accessing and editing the Profile's contents.
5. So far I only came across one site that doesn't work:
Deezer. It acts as if the music is going to play, but it doesn't. Note that this is not related to their announcement that outdated browsers soon won't be supported any longer (which goes away if you change the user agent): it's still working perfectly well in Firefox 45 ESR.
6. Last, after reading the whole thread, a meta-request of sorts: would it be feasible to split this forum into, say, developers, compilers, Linux, etc. on the one hand, and… hmm, the plebs, a.k.a. common people like me with common users' queries on the other?
Again, many thanks!
