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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by chrismorgan »

clairity wrote: post #4

firefox also removes 'www' and 'https' in drop-down search results from the address bar[0]. it's a subtle change, but worth knowing. 'http' urls remain in long form apparently (haven't installed yet to check it out). edit: min(), max(), and clamp() for css looks useful too. edit 2: honoring 'nosniff' on mime types on page load is neat too [1] [0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/28/firefox-75-address-bar-res... [1] htt…

Fenix is also now stripping https:// and https://www. from the address bar, which I strongly approve of as it has none of the downsides that doing that would have on desktop (OK, OK, so www. stripping can be theoretically significant), and I have a not-huge device so that that was taking up around half of the space allotted to text. Now if only I could do away with the padlock (only show it when it’s problematic, not all the time) and shrink the remaining badge much smaller. And/or if you could scroll the text horizontally like you could in Firefox for Android.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by pedrocr »

yaantc wrote: post #9
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #7

There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to). It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.

According to Phoronix it's in: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...

Although probably not enabled by default.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by butz »

gshdg wrote: post #5

Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.

Now it is recommended to use width and height attributes on img elements. It will help to prevent viewport jumping and will support responsive aspect ratio resizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-d_SoCHeWE

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by Tomte »

gshdg wrote: post #5

Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.

I don't think so.

But both Firefox and Chrome have implemented this: when your img tag contains both height and width attributes, the browsers use those to calculate the aspect ratio, and use those to reserve the correct amount of space when rendering the page.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by butz »

And there are some minimal improvements to "Install Website as App": now app is not grouped with Firefox icon on Windows, displays correct icon. Little steps towards full PWA support.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by mauricedenassau »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #7

There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to). It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.

I second this, since I switched to wayland, I noticed many weird graphical issues with Firefox, hoping this release will fix them.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by oshanz »

yaantc wrote: post #9
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #7

There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to). It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.

According to Phoronix it's in: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...

plan to be on ff 76 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...
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