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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 bfred_it »

zeroimpl wrote: post #78
butz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you specify both a width and height, it's not going to be very responsive.

The attributes are overridden by CSS. You should have:

    max-width: 100%;
    height: auto;
What the other user is talking about is a new feature that FINALLY uses the attributes to preserve the ratio before the image starts loading.

Kinda ridiculous that we had to wait 8 years of “responsive design” before they realized that this was always supposed to happen.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by bfred_it »

gshdg wrote: post #65
butz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's been recommended since about 1993. That doesn't mean more than 10% of sites have ever actually followed the guideline.

WordPress does this by default and that’s the most common platform to date. I’d dare to say that most websites have those attributes, but most SPAs don’t, because that’s too hard.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by Tagbert »

sandov wrote: post #79

Just got the update on Ubuntu. The address bar looks horrible when selected [0], it outgrows its container and invades the space of tabs. I thought it was a bug at first, but it's probably intentional. is there a way to go back to the normal address bar? [0] https://imagehost.imageupload.net/2020/04/08/Screenshot-from...

It is similar on Mac OS. Seems like a reasonable method to shift focus. Doesn’t break things but it different so might need a little settle time to get used to.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

#85

Post by Tagbert »

gshdg wrote: post #5

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

I think the biggest cause of this is not regular site images but dynamic ads that come in after the main page loads and never include size information. It’s even worse when the ads change and have a different size that causes the layout to shift while you’re reading an article.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by U8dcN7vx »

bronxasaur wrote: post #55
majewsky wrote: post #47

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Awesome. Any word on whether this also applies to Windows? (Asking for a company-issued notebook.)

On Windows, you should be able to set `security.enterprise_roots.enabled` to true. Might have to restart Firefox for it to recognize.

Enterprise root certs are different from client certs even if some (perhaps many or most) client certs were signed by an enterprise root. A client cert is about providing identity information/proofs (instead of or in addition to traditional credentials). I hope mozilla isn't conflating the two though I can see how they might decide that turning on one thing gets you the other as well.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by Scottn1 »

Wait, Am I the only one to notice right away that FF FINALLY added a "Default Zoom" option to its settings? Or has this been there before recently and I've missed it? If this is new then THANKS 1000x.

For YEARS this was my main annoyance with FF of not having a general zoom added to all webpages and was the only browser that didn't. FF would remember your set zoom for sites (provided you didn't check "site preferences" in clearing history) but it just became so tedious to have to manually zoom pages you haven't visited before.I even tried to resort to some clumsy add-ons that tried to makeup for lack of system wide zoom

{FF as default browser user since Opera died and went to being chrome. Although I do test others out once in while like Brave/Vivaldi/EdgeChrome I'm still loyal}

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by ric2b »

AnonC wrote: post #20
owenshen24 wrote: post #2

Built-in support for lazy image loading is pretty nice! No more annoying JS-based hacks to get it to work.

Do all the other popular browsers, like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (the new one) and Brave, also support this?

Still waiting for support on Safari and a few mobile browsers.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by recursive »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #80
recursive wrote: post #56

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It has for a while. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Settings

Kinda. It has a dark mode, but it doesn't seem to pick up the system preference.

That is one way to look at it. Personally, I don't regularly use any operating system that has such a preference. To me, FF supports dark mode, although not certain operating systems' implementations.
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