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Re: Firefox 51.0

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https://goo.gl/LGVxL4

Also tested here and played through fine.

I just deleted all my cookies, all my web content, restarted Firefox, and it stopped on the 9th second, even though the file is half way downloaded

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #74

This will be the first software that I use everyday (and that I know of) that speaks my native tongue: Kabyle. It might not mean much to the rest of the world, especially since we're not that many native speakers, but I'm loving the fact that they've added it.

In the same release they removed Belarusian. Anyone know why?

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

https://goo.gl/LGVxL4

Oh that's funny, I can reproduce too. It stops at 9 seconds exactly.

But I'm running 51.0b5 on Linux, so maybe it's already been fixed.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #74

This will be the first software that I use everyday (and that I know of) that speaks my native tongue: Kabyle. It might not mean much to the rest of the world, especially since we're not that many native speakers, but I'm loving the fact that they've added it.

In the same release they removed Belarusian. Anyone know why?

Localization is done by volunteers. If the team that is providing the translations does not complete the translations then the localization is dropped

> This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort.

> The plan is to stop building Firefox Beta and Firefox Release, and move existing users to Russian.

> I think it would also be a good idea to stop building Firefox Aurora, and remove Belarusian from product-details, but I'm open to different opinions.

- bug 1304743

Re: Firefox 51.0

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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…

Yeah, but many of us game developers don't want to use any of that either. At the end of the day, those tools don't ensure that we obtain the same level of quality out the other end. Framerates aren't the same, memory usage isn't the same, and you can't easily tweak these things once they've come out the other end. The web _isn't_ just a runtime. It's abstracted like that, but browsers are glorified HTML renders with…

I don't think I'm understanding you. What tools ensure you get the same level of quality on the user's setup? Things are always different on the user's hardware/system.

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #74

This will be the first software that I use everyday (and that I know of) that speaks my native tongue: Kabyle. It might not mean much to the rest of the world, especially since we're not that many native speakers, but I'm loving the fact that they've added it.

In the same release they removed Belarusian. Anyone know why?

"This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort."

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307995

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304743

Re: Firefox 51.0

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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.

Sketch app also redid their updates page to look really nice, and not overload with the minutia by default but allows you to dig in if needed. Bonus points for directly linking to all the old version installers too.

https://www.sketchapp.com/updates/

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #74

This will be the first software that I use everyday (and that I know of) that speaks my native tongue: Kabyle. It might not mean much to the rest of the world, especially since we're not that many native speakers, but I'm loving the fact that they've added it.

Kabyle has about 20 times more native speakers than my native language, Icelandic. In contrast I have been using software in my native language for as long as I remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_language

Re: Firefox 51.0

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Tab switching has improved a lot. I also love the new zoom level indicator in the URL bar. Very innovative. Nice.

Is there a way to remove it from the URL bar? I find it rather distracting actually...

Via userChrome.css

    @namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
    #urlbar-zoom-button {
        display: none !important;}

Re: Firefox 51.0

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post #59

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

https://goo.gl/LGVxL4

Seems to be some issue with the website. I can't cURL the file properly. It fails with "connection interrupted".
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