Firefox 84.0

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Post by easton » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

Re: Firefox 84.0

#2

Post by easton » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:02 PM UTC

Notable changes are that Apple Silicon support is now stable, and that this is the final release of Firefox to support Adobe Flash.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by blindm » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

easton wrote: post #2

Notable changes are that Apple Silicon support is now stable, and that this is the final release of Firefox to support Adobe Flash.

And if you sorely miss Flash, you can run it with Ruffle:

https://ruffle.rs/

Re: Firefox 84.0

#4

Post by antouank » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

> Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!

Re: Firefox 84.0

#5

Post by kjax » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

Crash logging and reporting in the developer console's network tab is a welcome addition.

It might be due to my combination of browser settings and add-ons, but I've found the Firefox developer console to be less than perfectly stable.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by chrisseaton » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

easton wrote: post #2

Notable changes are that Apple Silicon support is now stable, and that this is the final release of Firefox to support Adobe Flash.

I had no idea they even still supported Flash?! I thought they changed their plugin API so many times that it would have been unsupported many years ago.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by krzyk » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

antouank wrote: post #4

> Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!

Does anyone know how to enable that?

I'm on Nightly so I should have it for some time already, but I'm not sure if it is on by default or should I tweak some value.

Re: Firefox 84.0

#8

Post by rethab » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

krzyk wrote: post #7

antouank wrote: post #4

> Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!

Does anyone know how to enable that? I'm on Nightly so I should have it for some time already, but I'm not sure if it is on by default or should I tweak some value.

Is this about WebRender? If so, here you go: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/firefox-enable-webrender...

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by jefftk » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

And for developers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

The biggest change from my perspective is "Firefox now ensures that localhost URLs — such as http://localhost/ and http://dev.localhost/ — refer to the local host's loopback interface (e.g. http://127.0.0.1). As a result, resources loaded from localhost are now assumed to have been delivered securely (see Secure contexts), and also will not be treated as mixed content (bug 1220810, bug 1488740)."

This is great for local development.

Re: Firefox 84.0

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Post by ducktective » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

antouank wrote: post #4

> Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!

I'm seeing high CPU usage on YouTube after recent updates on Xubuntu. I think it started when they enabled GPU acceleration by default.

Previously I could watch even FHD videos without much fan noise, but after recent updates, fans spin at the max speed by playing even 480p quality vids. Anyone else?