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Firefox continues its commitment to privacy with this quiet change found in the developer notes [0]: > For privacy reasons, both BatteryManager.chargingTime and BatteryManager.dischargingTime now round the returned value to the closest 15 minutes (bug 1292655). See [1] for an explanation of how the battery status API can be used to track you. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/51#Chan... [1] htt…
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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…
I like LoL's current ones better: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/pat...
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/
Firefox continues its commitment to privacy with this quiet change found in the developer notes [0]: > For privacy reasons, both BatteryManager.chargingTime and BatteryManager.dischargingTime now round the returned value to the closest 15 minutes (bug 1292655). See [1] for an explanation of how the battery status API can be used to track you. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/51#Chan... [1] htt…
Basically Firefox no longer allows you to deny websites access to camera individually. This means that while on a voice call on messenger.com, the camera is still always on, even if the video is "muted".
Warning to Vimperator users: some Vimperator features are currently broken in this release. See https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/568
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After reading that article in 2014, I switched to Firefox. I used it from that point until just a few weeks ago when a program bypassed my defaults and launched Chrome. And I immediately remembered why I preferred Chrome and how much more responsive it feels, and how it handles plugins and per-tab processes and uses a quarter the memory somehow. So now I'm back on Chrome. Felt good to be on FF for awhile, felt like I…
> and uses a quarter the memory somehow. I thought Chrome was famous for being a resource hog. It consumes more RAM on my Windows PCs, though I confess I use more tabs than are viable in Chrome....
That's only in comparison to Safari and Edge. If you open enough tabs to cause memory issues on Chrome, Firefox would have frozen and slowed down to a crawl before filling the memory, anyhow, and electrolysis still isn't in a state where it could change that: there's still one process for the renderer so if enough intensive webpages are run your web browsing experience will still slow down.
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 .
Startup times are only comparable when you start Firefox for the second time and at least for me, Firefox is faster then. Rendering and the developer tools however seem to be slower in Firefox indeed, sometimes significantly.
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After reading that article in 2014, I switched to Firefox. I used it from that point until just a few weeks ago when a program bypassed my defaults and launched Chrome. And I immediately remembered why I preferred Chrome and how much more responsive it feels, and how it handles plugins and per-tab processes and uses a quarter the memory somehow. So now I'm back on Chrome. Felt good to be on FF for awhile, felt like I…
> how it handles plugins and per-tab processes and uses a quarter the memory somehow. Swings and roundabouts. I find chrome uses much more memory, and the plugins I care about (tab group view, NoScript) don't have effective parallels in chrome last I looked. I also have a pet hate for any application which decides that it needs its own look-and-feel and you should discard your own window decorations. Also, the mozill…
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I can confirm that Iceland is amazing. I've actually never met anyone who's been there and didn't think it's amazing. The only downside is that you'll always want to go back, and you'll always have a part of you be sad that you aren't there.
I hate to continue the OT but this is important. Funny to see that people feel that way about Iceland. I lived and worked in France for 6 months and I feel exactly as you describe. As an American my opinion is that life is too short to not life in France (or some place like it). Unfortunately it's unlikely I'll ever be back for any decent period of time but I do know what suits me. Certain people like different thing…
Fuck it, I'm just gonna book some tickets.