I love Firefox and use it all the time, but for the last few years one of my biggest pains is the OSX performance on my Macbook Pro. Is this close to be resolved soon?
Firefox 65.0 released
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Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#12Does anyone know what the decoding performance of AV1 is these days? I'd love to play with it, but back when I last tried my oldish laptop did NOT like decoding it.
dav1d is the state of the art currently, but i dont know if it's used by FF.
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#13>Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). To whoever is responsible for pushing this change through: Thank you.
For context: Firefox 64 removed `browser.showQuitWarning`, which would show a dialog asking "cancel"/"save session"/"discard session" when you quit.
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#14>Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). To whoever is responsible for pushing this change through: Thank you.
Yes, it is much appreciated. Can't tell you how many times my finger has slipped and hit Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W. Oh well! I didn't need all that work...
So you can't get it back? I usually use Chrome, I never lose my session no matter what I slip up to do.
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#15I feel like I've been waiting a long time for autoplay blocking - does this keep being pushed back or have I missed a feature cancellation/config setting/extension announcement?
I was hoping to see this pushed out by default because I agree that it's the best 'new' feature I've found in the browser in some time.
You can change it in about:config, searching for 'media.autoplay'. I've changed the following:
1) Set 'ask permission' to true
2) Set 'block webaudio' to true
3) Set default to 2, which is 'ask per domain'. As I understand, the default of 0 is 'autoplay', 1 is 'block' and 2 is 'ask' but your favourite search engine of choice can provide clarification on this and the other settings. 2 will cause a pop-up beside the URL bar, like with password save popups, letting you accept or block and with a checkbox to set it permanent.
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#16>Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). To whoever is responsible for pushing this change through: Thank you.
Hopefully this is easy to disable
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#17>Firefox will now warn you when closing a window (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). To whoever is responsible for pushing this change through: Thank you.
Chrome's "hold cmd-Q to quit" popup is just about perfect in that regard.
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
In addition to this: Even though the link claims that it is not a paid placement, it's still an advertisement. If Mozilla really wants to provide more value to me, they'll tell me how to permanently disable it. Its presence provides negative value to me.
Of course they paid for it... Do you really think the Mozilla Corporation has sent an ad to millions of users for free? Whether that money went to the corporation or to the pocket of an executive, that's another matter.
Then the statement "It was not a paid placement or advertisement." is blatantly false. they simply say whether it was paid, not whether it was paid to a specific entity.
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#19I feel like I've been waiting a long time for autoplay blocking - does this keep being pushed back or have I missed a feature cancellation/config setting/extension announcement?
This. I switched to FF 20 years ago because of the popup killer. Autoplay is the new popup.
Re: Firefox 65.0 released
#20No changes to the interface again! Will not go back to FF till they take graphic design seriously.
curious, what changes do you want to see?