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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by timerol »

eyegor wrote: post #45
xvilka wrote: post #23

I wonder, why they implemented Baseline JS interpreter in C++? Why not Rust?

I was under the impression that this was a side goal of the servo project. Of course now it looks like it is it's own thing: https://servo.org/ Does anyone know if servo is supposed to be related to Firefox in some way, or if it is always meant to be independent?

Servo is supposed to be a playground of sorts for architectural innovations in the browser space. Successful experiments from Servo will then get ported to FF. Project Quantum ported over the Stylo CSS improvements from Servo: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en.... WebRender has also been making it's way over: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by lbotos »

I recently switched to firefox to give it a try. Does anyone else 2x-3x their video playback and notice the audio distortion in FF on mac? I've tried to find some discussion or workarounds for it, but no dice. Hoping that maybe the renderer in this release might help a little.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by chrischen »

kemenaran wrote: post #3

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Battery life is my primary concern, and unless they release battery life benchmarks I’d be hard pressed to switch off of Safari.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by chenster »

lordnacho wrote: post #31
GhettoMaestro wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The performance is what has kept me on Chrome on Mac. Going to re-install FF now and give it a whirl. Thanks for this info!

I just tried this. Interestingly I'd left it on v68 and it cooked my MBP, fans all on max immediately. When I updated to 70 it seems to work perfectly. CPU temp in the 40s. Gonna leave it on in the background and see if it suddenly spikes.

The same here. Have you tried with FF add-ons that normally are the culprit for CPU hogging?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by jedieaston »

redblacktree wrote: post #56
adfkbuvasdas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Game changer! Now from my POV Firefox is the best desktop browser, period. No caveats.

Is there a good transition path for someone who uses a lot of Google products? In particular, I use Chrome across all my devices, and I depend on the ability to search my history/recent tabs/etc from anywhere. Will Firefox give me the same ability? Is the transition literally just: Install Firefox everywhere and start using it instead?

Pretty much, yes. You’ll have to make a Firefox account, but then tabs and plugins will sync everywhere you log in.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by stevewodil »

chrischen wrote: post #63
kemenaran wrote: post #3

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Battery life is my primary concern, and unless they release battery life benchmarks I’d be hard pressed to switch off of Safari.

Yeah, I just switched to Safari recently because of battery life

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by volkk »

kemenaran wrote: post #3

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

does anybody know if all of these are available in nightly?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by pier25 »

m4lvin wrote: post #8
ar7hur wrote: post #2

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

It seems there are add-ons for this :-) https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict

I installed it, but this should be solved at the native level and not on JS.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by chenster »

GhettoMaestro wrote: post #12
kemenaran wrote: post #3

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

The performance is what has kept me on Chrome on Mac. Going to re-install FF now and give it a whirl. Thanks for this info!

You can also use Brave browser, it's basically Chrome with the ad tracking removed. With that, almost no reason to switch to another browser.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by echelon »

gorgoiler wrote: post #57

So happy that Firefox is making steady progress. I’m surprised though to see new CSS features so prominently in the announcement. Doesn’t this add unwanted additional fragmentation to browser CSS support? A cosmetic feature like that naively seems better implemented with a library rather than folding it straight into one particular browser, but maybe I’m witnessing the process of text-underline-thickness being cement…

These look standard. Chrome already implements them:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-decora...

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