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Firefox 65.0 released

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Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by lol768 »

I was intrigued by this statement:

> A better video streaming experience for Windows users: Firefox now supports the next-generation, royalty-free video compression technology called AV1

Since I don't care about Windows, I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not. At least using Firefox Developer Edition v66, it works fine behind the media.av1.enabled flag on Linux.

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Also seems that https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities... has yet to be updated.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by zelos »

zelos wrote: post #36

Anybody else seeing blurry text for the bookmark toolbar and background tab titles? macOS 10.14 on an external monitor.

Hmm, looks like it only happens with dark theme enabled, it looks ok in light mode.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by vezycash »

ekianjo wrote: post #29
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you still use it?

For the lack of better alternatives (I need some specific extensions, and I don't want to use Chrome). I also use alternative browsers like qutebrowser but it cannot replace everything I need to do.

There is an extension called Chrome Store Foxified. It's like wine for Firefox. Check it out.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by soft_dev_person »

detaro wrote: post #31
soft_dev_person wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the downvote, whomever. I always consider switching to Firefox, as I think Chrome needs competition, but Firefox has just never been up to par in usability (especially developer usability) whenever I've tried to switch. Things like "losing your work" for no good reason (don't Firefox have "Re-open closed Window"?) is just another thing I would add to the list of reasons not to switch, so feel free to clari…

To quote from the initial comment: > (regardless of whether you have automatic session restore enabled for restart). It also already has an optional check if you want to close a window ("you're closing a window with 10 tabs. sure?"), and a list of recently closed windows to restore.

I interpreted the change as if it would always show the quit warning regardless of any settings, since the warning popup is not exactly a new feature. Some more context helped clarify.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by shaklee3 »

I remember about a year or two ago, there was a lot of press on HN about a new Firefox engine that made it extremely fast. Ever since then, I've only seen negative comments about Firefox. Did that just not pan out as much as people had expected?

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by afroboy »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #46

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't include an option to download the .deb package instead of tar file for Ubuntu and Debian during release announcements. The market share is already shrinking and why make it harder for people to install or upgrade Firefox? Chrome does it. Why can't Firefox do that as well?

You can update easily Firefox from tar file, it has local updates no need for official repository.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by ekianjo »

oosjc9a5 wrote: post #37
ekianjo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox as an organization does not get branding at all. They claim to be the champions on privacy and user freedom yet they keep breaking that image over and over again with unwanted ads, telemetry, and services you can't disable. I still use Firefox as my main browser, but I can't fathom how they come up with such poor decisions every single time.

Firefox is being sabotaged from the executive level, I'm 100 % sure of this. Tech-wise, solid. Administration, a complete disaster.

Probably. It's pretty sad when you see something great stuck in a local minima because of "thinking heads" that know better.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by ForHackernews »

ekianjo wrote: post #42
ForHackernews wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Choose Firefox now, or later you won't have a choice" https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-l...

Honestly that's a very poor rationale. People should be choosing Firefox because it's a better product or a more ethical one (sadly they are doing a poor job at convincing us of that), not because we need to keep a competitor alive forever no matter what.

I'll happily use a (marginally) inferior competitor because I value competition for its own sake. I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Bing Maps.

Re: Firefox 65.0 released

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Post by reidrac »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #46

I don't understand why Firefox doesn't include an option to download the .deb package instead of tar file for Ubuntu and Debian during release announcements. The market share is already shrinking and why make it harder for people to install or upgrade Firefox? Chrome does it. Why can't Firefox do that as well?

I'm just guessing here, but Chrome is not packaged by the distro whilst Firefox is.

Personally I like the tar. That's my preferred way to use Firefox in Debian. I untar on ~/apps/firefox, symlink to my ~/bin and it is ready to go. The auto-update of Firefox works perfect, so I don't need to use Debian packages for that.

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