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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by Klonoar »

roca wrote: post #320
Klonoar wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, I know - read my original comment, I'm clearly aware that Chrome had to implement their side of things. Firefox goes out of their way to draw controls that don't fit in. Chrome, for all their faults, tries very hard to emulate the proper look/feel/functionality.

AFAIK Firefox does not "go out of their way to draw controls that don't fit in". On Mac and other platforms, the policy is that the controls look and feel like their native counterparts (unless overidden by Web authors) ... unless it's changed since I left Mozilla, and I don't think it has. In some cases, however, that has not been achieved. I haven't had a Mac for long time so I can't speak to the details of what wo…

It's pretty off on Mac, sadly.

I will, however, apologize for saying they "go out of their way". I fired that bit of text off without thinking, but it's needlessly assuming (and likely outright wrong) on my part. Thanks for the correction.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by chii »

roca wrote: post #309
willtim wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC Safari achieves this by suspending the processes in background tabs, which could be running inefficient JavaScript (polling for new ads etc). There's no cross-platform way to do this, but I think Mozilla absolutely need to try and find a way to address this. Web sites cannot be trusted to write efficient well-behaved JavaScript and so the burden of taming it falls upon the browser. There is probably some throttl…

Firefox can and does aggressively throttle JS in background tabs. However, it's not easy to do this in a way that doesn't break sites. Sometimes background tabs have JS doing actually useful work --- playing audio, running a simulation, receiving notifications, stuff like that. I don't know what Safari is doing differently to Firefox, and no doubt Firefox can improve here, but when people say "it's easy, just complet…

When people comments "it'd easy to..." or "just so XYZ, it's simple", it means they haven't actually done the work before, and is just sprouting bs.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by grantcarthew »

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?

Have a look at https://www.grammarly.com

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by sigzero »

woutr_be wrote: post #319
theodorejb wrote: post #17

Wow, blown away by how much better the new password manager is! If they add support for custom fields on each login, this could almost completely replace my need for a 3rd party solution.

Does it only support passwords? I actually use 1Password for quite a bit of information. (Credit cards, bank accounts, email accounts, servers, and random memberships)

I will always use a 3rd party password solution since it prevents browser lock-in.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by Angeo34 »

danlugo92 wrote: post #18
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

Would this bring it up to par with safari's power consumption?

Maybe just don't watch videos inside your Browser. You know there's youtube-dl+mpv?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by skore »

trilinearnz wrote: post #318

Please excuse my ignorance, but why is this being published from "hacks.mozilla.org"? Is that just the name of their technical blog? It sounds like a platform that's more clandestine / unofficial to be used to announce a public release.

You do realize that you are writing this comment on a site literally called "Hacker News", right?

(and yes, that is simply their technical blog)

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by Angeo34 »

chenster wrote: post #69
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!

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.

>injects own custom http headers so advertisers can uniquely identify you even easier

>takes crypto donation hostage and opens funds in other people's names (i.e. scams crypto to artificially create demand for that BAT)

If you use Brave you literally are part of the problem.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by sings »

tyre wrote: post #32

> Firefox 70 introduces three new properties related to text decoration/underline: > text-decoration-thickness: sets the thickness of lines added via text-decoration. > text-underline-offset: sets the distance between a text decoration and the text it is set on. Bear in mind that this only works on underlines. > text-decoration-skip-ink: sets whether underlines and overlines are drawn if they cross descenders and asc…

I wonder if the default values for offset and thickness will respect those declared in the font. And also whether sub-pixel values are allowed? I don’t know how many fonts declare these values, but it would be a shame not to use information that provides values tailored to the font in use.
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