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Re: Firefox 51.0

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Post by cpeterso »

zobzu wrote: post #8
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 .

try refresh. ive no issue with firefox. uses less memory too

To "refresh" your Firefox user profile, open the about:support and click the "Refresh" button. It should preserve your tabs, bookmarks, and saved passwords but will lose your installed add-ons (so note which add-ons you have now that you will want to re-install).

Re: Firefox 51.0

#52

Post by Animats »

ngokevin wrote: post #32
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.

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

In practice, service workers seem to mostly be drive-by installs of forms of hostile code. Look at "about:serviceworkers" in Firefox to see what's running. Did you ask for any of those? I have, excluding sites where I have a login:

* https://www.youtube.com, https://plus.google.com I've never signed into Youtube, or Google, on this machine, but have watched YouTube videos.

* https://www.bajajfinserv.in - A financial service in India. I was checking out something from Wikipedia, and this drive-by installed.

* https://www.theguardian.com - I've read their site, but do not have a login.

* https://weather.com - checked weather, don't have a login.

* https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net - No idea what this is. Going there returns XML with "Access denied.Anonymous users does not have storage.objects.list access to bucket itchio.".

* https://fee.org - "Foundation for Economic Education", a right-wing think tank. Does a drive-by install for any home page access.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#53

Post by mr_november »

debaserab2 wrote: post #46
TD-Linux wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blender has my favorite release notes: https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/ Though that's cheating a bit because it's easier to get pretty pictures of features in Blender.

Nice! Another one I can think of is how Blizzard releases their patch notes. Gamers are especially picky to game changes, so you can tell they put some thought into how they announce changes. Example: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20481262/heroes-of-the-s... Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date, something that's more focused on how changes are announc…

> Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date

There apparently is, we use https://headwayapp.co/ for that.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#54

Post by glassx »

debaserab2 wrote: post #16

Side note: I absolutely love the format that Firefox does their release notes in. They're organized really well and do a good job of speaking with the right language for the audience of each change. I can't think of another product that does release notes as well as them. Usually your hunting down ticket numbers (often on a private tracker) that are referenced from a changelog.

Unreal Engine also does it right:

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-14-release...

Re: Firefox 51.0

#55

Post by hannob »

The password warning is a great move by Mozilla.

They tackle a very common misconception: Many people think it's enough to transfer the password encrypted, because they think https is only about secrecy. But it's crucial to also submit the form via https, otherwise attackers can mess with the form itself.

A lot of webpages will be surprised by this, there are still quite a few who have insecure login forms.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#56

Post by bobajeff »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #50
bobajeff wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to use JavaScript. (See emscripten, binaryen etc.) The Web is basically just a runtime you don't have to host your files on a server if you don't want. You can distribute them via CDs if you prefer. Also you can use Service Workers now. That said monetisation all depends on the product not the medium. Just look at Minecraft. It didn't use ads or microtransactions and yet it was run from a Java applet i…

Distribution via CDs is not even realistic. That might work for Linux distributions who want to sell CDs to the 10 people who want to buy them but for games when most sells are made via Steam that isn't even a serious idea. Minecraft also notoriously performs terrible. Given what Minecraft is sure that might work for Minecraft. It wouldn't work for an AAA game.

OK use what ever distribution and monetisation strategy you want. The point was that you are not restricted to serving your files from a online server or making money via ads/microtransactions just because you are using the Web.

Re: Firefox 51.0

#58

Post by chipperyman573 »

mr_november wrote: post #53
debaserab2 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Another one I can think of is how Blizzard releases their patch notes. Gamers are especially picky to game changes, so you can tell they put some thought into how they announce changes. Example: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20481262/heroes-of-the-s... Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date, something that's more focused on how changes are announc…

> Makes me wonder if there is a market for a release notes platform for keeping customer up to date There apparently is, we use https://headwayapp.co/ for that.

Terrible mobile UI

Re: Firefox 51.0

#60

Post by pjmlp »

aorth wrote: post #33

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/

Sadly even though my GPU is OpenGL 3.3 capable, I only get sound on Chrome and FF, with FF eventually causing the NVidia driver to crash.
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