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How do I tell if a given video playing in my browser is AV1 or something else?
Right click the video and choose Stats for Nerds. If Codecs shows something starting with "av01", it's AV1 (confusingly, av1c is H.264). It seems to be chosen for nearly every video for 480p or below, and a few for higher resolutions.
It includes the Facebook container, but not the Google container?
>Suspending unused tabs Didn't they already do that? I remember receiving a spinner whenever I changed between tabs very often since they introduced that multi-process thing. >More power to you with every update *Except when we decide to remotely execute code on your computer using Studies/Normandy/whatever
Firefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... And it does the right thing and disables the feature when enabling the resist fingerprinting option. I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode
BTW, cheap-ass dark mode can be made by: filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg) on and perhaps fiddling with some backgrounds, to avoid transparency.
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As someone who codes dark mode first thanks for the lazy “OMG, my eyes...” mode ;-)
I used to code with black themes for a long time but not anymore: Why not simply lower your screen brightness ? I feel it better for my eyes because the text which i'm looking at is actually dark and not bright. Most people with dark themes have high brightness levels on their screens. I think this can be bad on the long term. Especially that many screen elements are not as dark as their code, which makes them ultra…
And it is true that, inevitably, whatever you're doing, sooner or later some white background or picture will appear on screen and blast your eyes with light. I cannot stand this, so I don't use dark themes on my PC.
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In addition to using private mode for visiting sites that I don't want saved in my history, I also use it as a poor mans sandbox for visiting sensitive sites (like my bank), to avoid potential cross-site-scripting attacks while visiting those sites. For this use-case, saving passwords is very useful. In fact, my biggest complaint with private mode in Firefox is that my preferred password manager plugin (bitwarden) do…
Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case? Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode? [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Congrats to Mozilla on shipping WebRender[1]! Just Nvidia on Windows for now, but I'm looking forward to the restrictions being relaxed - the perf improvements have been significant on my end. 1: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...
You can enable it manually with the following: > To turn on WebRender, go to about:config, enable the gfx.webrender.all pref, and restart the browser.
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Actually traditional tft displays need to apply a current to turn a pixel black, so if you don't use adaptive brightness that would dim the backlight if the display is mostly black, you actually consume more power with a black theme. I have a low power Pentium notebook with 15" led backlit screen and the difference between a terminal with black or white background is significant.
> I have a low power Pentium notebook with 15" led backlit screen and the difference between a terminal with black or white background is significant. How significant? Turn the screen black, and show the remaining battery time estimate. Turn it white, do the same. I'm curious.
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I used to code with black themes for a long time but not anymore: Why not simply lower your screen brightness ? I feel it better for my eyes because the text which i'm looking at is actually dark and not bright. Most people with dark themes have high brightness levels on their screens. I think this can be bad on the long term. Especially that many screen elements are not as dark as their code, which makes them ultra…
Do people also get annoyed at printed paper being white? Do they wish books had black pages? If not, as you say, it is only a matter of adjusting the screen for the proper brightness, depending on ambient light. And it is true that, inevitably, whatever you're doing, sooner or later some white background or picture will appear on screen and blast your eyes with light. I cannot stand this, so I don't use dark themes o…