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In Firefox at least the context menu includes "Pause".


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Thanks for the tip!

F8 doesn't seem to work on my Firefox, but I found the "Pause" feature on the Debugger tab.

IMO this should be a top-level user feature. Almost every day I have situations in which wish I'd be able to quickly pause JS execution on a website.


What use case do you have for pausing Firefox?

I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but usually, holding shift while right clicking enables the context menu in Firefox.

In Chrome, you can choose to pause on uncaught exceptions, as opposed to all exceptions or none, which is the case in Ffx

Tip: In Firefox you can use Ctrl-Shift click to bypass context menu blocking.

This makes me very happy. It sounds dumb but I've considered switching from Firefox just because of the context menus.

In Firefox, shift+right-click brings up the browser context menu.

You know in Firefox you can hold shift and right click and it will bypass any event handlers on the website. It will just give you your FF context menu.

Firefox also lets you mute a tab without switching to the tab.

I'm seeing no shenanigans in Firefox. The context menu works for me.

Firefox has also the same logic to throttle background tabs.

I’m excited for native context menus on macOS!

This 21 year old bug is fixed in the next version of Firefox!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572


On the other hand, Firefox seems to have such feature built-in.

Thank you for sharing this, I didn't even know firefox have this feature

Does this include the pausing of videos opened in a background tab until the tab is first focused? I recall that it was held back from the expected FF 53 release and expected in 54, but I'm not seeing anything about it.

Edit: Just tested, and it seems like this is not included yet again. Will it come out in FF 55, in... 6 weeks?

Edit 2: Not sure if this would reach anyone who can fix it, but heads up that both links about the multiprocess firefox point to the Mozilla blog, not to medium as stated in the second link. Is it supposed to be this page linked to from the blog post? [0]

[0] https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/the-search-for-the-goldilock...

Edit 3: Plenty of people seem to be suggesting this is available already. I think that has been the case for awhile now, but not by default. It was something that was mistakenly specifically called out in the release notes for 53. I thought it was a much large discussion thread, but this is the comment I was recalling [1] with a reply linking to the bug report [2] which claims it was added to the FF54 release notes 3 months ago, but has seen action since including discussion in another bug just two days ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14151468

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308154


A new Firefox release, a new reminder that Firefox hasn't implemented native context menus in macOS for 20 years.

It is in Firefox.

Firefox has this feature as well, on both desktop and Android.

Or mouse gestures in Firefox.
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