What about DNS over HTTP? Do I still have to use Nightly for that?
Firefox 70
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Re: Firefox 70
#262What about DNS over HTTP? Do I still have to use Nightly for that?
no, has been in for the last couple of releases IIRC. I know I have it on and I don't use nightly
Re: Firefox 70
#263I recently tried Firefox again and I liked a lot. Only drawback for me at the moment is the lack of hardware video decoding on Linux. I hope it arrives soon.
What does it mean?
It decodes videos using the CPU, leading to a huge increase in power usage and dropped frames if your CPU isn't fast enough.
Re: Firefox 70
#264I noticed that firefox (dev edition) got rid of possibility to disable update notifications. I prefer my browser to be updated from repository rather than by itself. Did anyone has the same issue or found some workaround?
Its no longer possible with about:config - you must use a JSON file. However be careful - even once you create it, its destroyed upon manual update:
Re: Firefox 70
#265Firefox folks, I would _love_ to buy some FF stickers/swag. Is there anywhere I can do that?
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#266Firefox folks, I would _love_ to buy some FF stickers/swag. Is there anywhere I can do that?
Looks like they used to have one, but it's been closed since 2016. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-gear-store-s-last-day/74...
I imagine it either cost too much to run or didn't bring in enough to justify keeping it going unfortunately.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Seems like Firefox cares only about Windows. …which is why all the work was done to support Core Animation on macOS?
To be fair, CoreAnimation was first released a year before FireFox 1.0.
For many years CA wasn't hosted in the window server; it was rendered locally within the app via GL 1.x, which is worse than what Firefox was doing. And window server rendering didn't result in large energy consumption gains until Retina Displays came around.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mozilla fired their CEO, the founder of JS, Brendan Eich, because he made a donation 10 years before to a Christian charity. Many SV people are missing the scope and scale of the impact of having OSS charities engaging in the political campaign – it is renouncing all donations from the other side. It is not their role. Every year I have thousands of dollars that I try to affect to OSS charities, but I’m yet to find a…
He gave money to a political campaign attempting to limit the right to marry to heterosexual couples. A little different from any old "Christian charity".
It's no different in any way whatsoever.
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#269What's the state of saving & autofilling credit card info? That's the one thing that keeps me going back to chrome (rather than typing in my card by hand). There are some bugs on this that look quite stale, and they don't seem interested in finishing support, and its disabled by default..
It's not on Chrome's level, but it does have autofill. I hope that is next on their agenda. I love how Chrome prompts for security code and generates based on that.
I switched over to FF recently and just use Chrome for password generation, but looks like I can switch for good.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right ... It really isn’t inconceivable that they wouldn’t have got funding from somewhere else. It was a marketing opportunity for Google, them being the David to Microsoft’s Goliath. Remember that whole ”don’t be evil” thing? Turns out it was jusy a ruse to be abandoned once the market had consolidated.
The triple negative in your sentence makes it confusing. I expected that you wanted to say : It is conceivable that they would have got funding from somewhere else
it's not inconceivable is a common enough phrase. You could say this might be more parsimoniously expressed as "it is conceivable", but the colloquial phrasing intones that the premise proceeds specifically from the supposition that it may be inconceivable.