Firefox 51.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by karyon » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

rocky1138 wrote: post #29

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #15

I see the WebGL improvements and how on their blog they market it as "Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming" and I really have to say, as a game developer, I really don't want the future of gaming to be on the web. This is more than just Javascript hate. It's hard to monetize games if you aren't going free to play with microtransactions. And really, on a personal level, I just like downloading games and playing them offli…

Don't worry, binaries will always be around. The future of the majority of gaming is not on the web.

well, there are asm.js and in the near future web assembly (basically, binaries for the web)

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by ngokevin » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #15

I see the WebGL improvements and how on their blog they market it as "Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming" and I really have to say, as a game developer, I really don't want the future of gaming to be on the web. This is more than just Javascript hate. It's hard to monetize games if you aren't going free to play with microtransactions. And really, on a personal level, I just like downloading games and playing them offli…

FWIW, Service Workers allow content to be downloaded in the background and to be made offline.

Mainstream gaming will never catch on the Web. But Mozilla is working on WebVR to create an open and distributed platform for VR (https://mozvr.com). You'll be able to publish VR content in seconds and traverse from world to world. WebGL2 is exciting for that space.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by aorth » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in their release summary post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+):

https://playcanv.as/e/p/44MRmJRU/

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by binaryanomaly » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

bonsai80 wrote: post #21

binaryanomaly wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what exactly your issue is but in general Firefox was never faster than it is now - since electrolysis support (multiprocess windows).

I use it as much as I can, although for development tasks Chrome performs much better for me and certain sites load slower. I'm looking forward to a year from now when servo/quantum/whatever is in there. In the mean time though, I'm thankful to have a non-commercial party in the mix and am happy to use it.

Couldn't agree more, same here.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by dagurp » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

Does anyone else think the login popup is a bit annoying? Is there a way to go back to the way it was before?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by TD-Linux » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

pyed wrote: post #6

I tested the FLAC playback, it plays only the first 9 seconds!

I'm pretty sure that's not the expected behavior :) Do you have a test case?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by febed » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:27 PM UTC

thrombos wrote: post #26

nautical wrote: post #5

Was using Firefox from a very long time , but for some reason recently Firefox is very slow on my machine . Even chromium starts up slowly . Google Chrome opens the fastest and is very light on resources .

This is because Chrome stays in memory even when closed where Firefox doesn't.

I thought this was the case too, so I tried letting Firefox stay in memory using the Minimizetotray extension but it was still lagging. I had e10s enabled with just ublock origin enabled. I quit trying to optimize it further and switched back to Chrome.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by patates » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:27 PM UTC

rocky1138 wrote: post #29

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #15

I see the WebGL improvements and how on their blog they market it as "Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming" and I really have to say, as a game developer, I really don't want the future of gaming to be on the web. This is more than just Javascript hate. It's hard to monetize games if you aren't going free to play with microtransactions. And really, on a personal level, I just like downloading games and playing them offli…

Don't worry, binaries will always be around. The future of the majority of gaming is not on the web.

I thought with the WebAssembly we can have (sort of) both? (not really binaries because it's bytecode and not really on the web because it runs somewhat in a different context, but then again, are web workers not on the web? Perhaps it's hard to define what "on the web" means).

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by anw » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:28 PM UTC

This release seems to help on the UX side of things regarding logins, along with improved efficiency.

Some of the highlights:

* Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them

* Firefox will save passwords even in forms that do not have “submit” events

* A warning is displayed when a login page does not have a secure connection

* Improved video performance for users without GPU acceleration for less CPU usage and a better full screen experience

* Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language

* Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by wnevets » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 8:30 PM UTC

Zecc wrote: post #17

wnevets wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had to look up what E10s was. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis >In Mozilla documentation "Electrolysis" is often shorted as "e10s".

You probably got a more relevant result by searching for "E10s" than if you had searched for "Electrolysis", too.

true but I've heard of Electrolysis in Firefox