When is it coming to Linux? And is it going to use Vulkan eventually?
Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
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Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bitness choice (and that entire screenshotted dialog) is only present if you select "Advanced Options" in the bottom left of the installer's first screen, it's not something that we force every user through.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Thanks. What's the default if you don't select "Advanced Options", btw?
We're still defaulting to 32-bit on systems where both are supported, but we hope to default to 64-bit around Firefox 55. We had to delay this due to issues with Flash, sandboxing, and Farmville 2: https://bugzil.la/1317995
The tracking bug for making 64-bit the default is https://bugzil.la/1340936
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#33And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it: https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
just fyi you can access the filesystem with file:/// URLs, and I was able to run arbitrary programs.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#34The storage.sync API allows add-ons to save user preferences to Firefox Sync, where it can be shared and synchronized between devices. Now all Chrome Extensions automatically work on Firefox.
That's fairly nice now Firefox extensions stopped working in Firefox.
Legacy Firefox extensions still work in this release, it is 57 that will be WebExtension-only.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#35Still no hardware accelerated video for Linux :( Everytime Firefox releases something I am reminded of this: https://xkcd.com/619/
I wonder if this is why battery and heat are so bad with Firefox on my Ubuntu 16.04 box? I've switched away to chromium because of the sheer difference in battery drain.
(And no, it's not a plugin that's causing the problem)
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#36And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it: https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
just fyi you can access the filesystem with file:/// URLs, and I was able to run arbitrary programs.
Yup. That's a feature. Run any app on any platform in your browser. That's where I'm taking Browserling. We've a bunch of users already running all kinds of software in their browsers so rather than restricting VMs, I'm opening them up. These are throw away VMs anyway, once the session is up, VM is gone.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#37And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it: https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
This site is really cool! I work on browsers and often need to test things in IE (to see how behavior of a web feature differs across browsers) and hate booting up VMs :)
Thank you!
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Thanks. What's the default if you don't select "Advanced Options", btw?
We're still defaulting to 32-bit on systems where both are supported, but we hope to default to 64-bit around Firefox 55. We had to delay this due to issues with Flash, sandboxing, and Farmville 2: https://bugzil.la/1317995 The tracking bug for making 64-bit the default is https://bugzil.la/1340936
So I can blame Farmville for Firefox not being 64-bit by default on Windows? :)
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love it although now that I have a Mozilla employee here I should mention that: - it seems to be missing features when running with Tab Tree - the ux of Mozilla vertical tabs experiment is weird and IMO bad. And I rarely complain about UX. The problem is: the tab bar goes up on the side of the awesomebar and slides it back and forth as the tab panel expands and goes back. I have reported this but so far nobody seem…
> and slides it back and forth as the tab panel expands and goes back. There's a "pin" button there that keeps it open. I know, this doesn't fix your problem, but I and everyone I've seen using it uses the pin button, and IMO it's a much better experience :) I've noticed that on most high-end laptops websites have way too much blank space on the side margins so pinning a useful tab bar in that space works fine.
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Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#40And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it: https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
FWIW, just displays a black screen for me in Firefox 4.0a2.