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I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config. At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year. What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
I can't understand why they still didn't put a "Support Mozilla" prompt anywhere.
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Basic fear is that it becomes yet another chromium spawn some ~5 years down the line. Recent dramas surrounding FF on Android and unasked-for UI changes in desktop surely didn't win FF any new users...But...I'm still clinging to it.
What's the drama on Android? It's been working great for me for years now.
My newgrounds nostalgia hit me hard after reading this. Despite any criticism on flash it self, there were some pretty cool stuff made with it all the same.
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Basic fear is that it becomes yet another chromium spawn some ~5 years down the line. Recent dramas surrounding FF on Android and unasked-for UI changes in desktop surely didn't win FF any new users...But...I'm still clinging to it.
What's the drama on Android? It's been working great for me for years now.
Still more than what's available on Chrome and Safari on mobile, so it always remained my browser of choice on a phone.
And still no proper support for pinch to zoom or proper scrolling with touchscreen laptops or Windows touchpads. Every release I hope they will resolve this extremely basic feature. Every release I'm disappointed. Every other browser just works - I don't know if it's native functionality or if they put in the work - but Firefox is just absolutely rubbish here.
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/
https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
On Chrome the animation starts lagging behind after a few loops so audio and video desync badly. On Firefox it’s much worse, since Firefox is naturally slower than Chrome so even the first loop is desynced already.
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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.
gfx.webrender.all layers.omtp.enabled layers.acceleration.force-enabled
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 w…
That would simplify my life when developing stuff on localhost and importing them between different things over http(s).
edit: Kids, you see those articles that regularly hit the frontpage about work/life balance ? The ones about how you need healthy sleep patterns and crunching all night long is actually bad for you brain ? This comment is what happens when you read those but don't actually follow through with recommendations.
Sorry everyone ^^.
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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?
GPU acceleration is not a magic bullet it seems. In our case drawing large SVGs suddenly becomes really slow when GPU rasterization is enabled. Chrome has the same problem. I really hope we will see more polishing in this area and maybe a cooperation between Chrome and Firefox developers?