This broke the sidebar splitter hide CSS:
``` #sidebar-splitter { display: none } ```
To fix add this: ``` vbox#sidebar-box.chromeclass-extrachrome[src] { border-right: none !important } ```
Firefox 64 Released
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Re: Firefox 64 Released
#192What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down? First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions. Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute…
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Re: Firefox 64 Released
#193What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down? First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions. Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute…
> Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute and made it a new one, which has as options 0, 1 and 2. Turned out autoplay default should be 1.
I don't understand what you mean here. Without having changed any of the settings from the default, Firefox (Nightly) pops up to ask me if I want to "allow auto-playing media with sound" the first time each website tries to do it. If I say no, the media doesn't auto-play.
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
arrrr... what they don't realize when they review their telemetry data is that most people that use this feature have turned off sharing telemetry data. Combine that with the fact that they haven't advertised the feature in the past decade and it leads to devs thinking nobody uses it.
The usage stats from telemetry showed a 0.01% usage rate. Even if 99% of people that used the Live Bookmarks feature disabled telemetry that implies that 99% of Firefox users did not use the feature.
Well, Firefox killed the RSS button on the URL bar a while ago now (bring it back with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/), so AFAIK there has been absolutely nothing to indicate the feature even existed for years now.
Also, 0.01% of a big number is still a big number, and given the state of the feature, that number is likely to include a lot of long-time users.
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#195Some things I've been looking forward to: > Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power > Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.…
about:performance is pretty nice. Strangely it doesn't show tabs that aren't top level in Tree View Tabs.
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#196Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…
I love that feature too. It uses the opensearch spec, and shouldn't be hard to implement
Ah wow, I had always wondered what magic was behind this feature! Had no idea there was a spec about it, that makes tons of sense.
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I use only Macs by default. It runs great and has for years. There's probably a real issue somewhere but it's far from as universal as your post implies.
Likewise. Not aware of any weird issues with performance in relation to Firefox. I use it exclusively. I'm on the beta channel. I can't remember the last time I had a browser crash. I generally restart it to apply new updates every few days or so.
If you have performance issues; you might want to check whether you need to blame the browser or some of your extensions.
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#198What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down? First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions. Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute…
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Re: Firefox 64 Released
#199What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down? First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions. Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute…
Doesn’t Safari prevent videos from auto-playing?
Re: Firefox 64 Released
#200What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down? First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions. Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute…
Get uMatrix and block Media requests globally, then whitelist on a per-domain basis. That should "fix" auto-playing videos for you permanently.
That sounds like a lot of work for something that a browser should provide an easy, up-front way to configure.