Firefox 64 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by ensignavenger » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

moosingin3space wrote: post #38

Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.

Thank you, this will be a nice new feature that will be relevant to my setup and appreciated.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by PavlovsCat » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #48

skykooler wrote: post #4

Woo CSS scrollbars finally!

I don't think that's a good thing. I don't want web designers to be able to alter the look of the browser itself.

The same person who managed to make the text and background color not clash will also be able handle two scrollbar colors responsibly. Take e.g. a textarea that gains focus and has the both scrollbar and border change color, what's so terrible about that?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by leevlad » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

Anecdotally, it seems to be flying through pages it used to struggle on when I last tried it (~version 60). Tab switching seems faster too, but I haven't had enough time to put it through its paces yet. Fairly promising so far, though!

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by cjpb » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

Can I inspect websocket frames yet?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:42 PM UTC

jimnotgym wrote: post #87

Anecdotally I keep finding myself stuck in Captcha loops of Firefox and the same sites work fine on Chrome? Anyone else finding this?

Yep. One ungracious explanation could be that Google is penalising Firefox users, but a more likely reason is that Firefox successfully blocks some of the information leakage from the browser that Google uses to decide whether a browser user is a bot or a human. I’ve no doubt that Chrome is very secure, but I do doubt that Google does much to stop it sending data back to Google controlled domains.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Paul-ish » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

sioux77 wrote: post #55

rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

If this release makes it actually usable on MacOS I would be so happy. Everyone says to use FireFox here, but they don't realize that it runs horribly on machines that a lot of people use to develop on. Reading the release notes: Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Doesn't seem like this fixes the high C…

When I interned at Mozilla, most of the FF devs developed on a Mac. They are not ignoring the platform. I suspect the issue is as other said, low incidence, high impact.

It seems like they are aware of the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by floatboth » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

jniedrauer wrote: post #52

iod wrote: post #47

Soon Wayland support is coming in Firefox 65 (works in beta/nightly already¹)! But have to wait until next month² for that. ¹ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134 ² https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

You have no idea how excited I am for this. I use sway as my daily driver since it supports HiDPI so much better than i3, but the one caveat to that has been firefox and xwayland. Once this ships, sway will have nearly flawless HiDPI support.

It's still a bit buggy, but I use Firefox on Wayland as my daily driver already.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512416 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509740

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

O1111OOO wrote: post #50

RSS is dead... I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed. Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the modern garbage on the home page to see a simple list of articles (not unlike HN's home page). It's borked now... None of my RSS links render. Chromium was very bad at this but at least it render…

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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by cpeterso » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

jimnotgym wrote: post #87

Anecdotally I keep finding myself stuck in Captcha loops of Firefox and the same sites work fine on Chrome? Anyone else finding this?

There have been reports of Google's new reCAPTCHA v3 requiring more image selection in Firefox than in Chrome, but there are no definitive information.

Do you have any privacy extensions installed or the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" about:config pref enabled? privacy.resistFingerprinting is known to cause problems with reCAPTCHA v3:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503872

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Jaruzel » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #82

Jaruzel wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually prefer the old 'triangle' Chrome tab bar.... the new curvy Chrome one is horrible.

I think I liked the more triangle shaped tabs as well, but w/r/t Firefox, there was a recent release (couple of months ago?) where the tab-bar was all kinds of jacked up. Maybe it was just a short-lived bug or something... what it was, it looks a lot better now.

In Chrome you can revert the tabs back to the triangle shape via Chrome flags:

chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md

I've got mine set to 'Normal'.