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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by 51Cards »

kkaranth wrote: post #36
51Cards wrote: post #17

>The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. Odd, this is the only place I accessed it from. Not a big deal as it's still on the context menu and also can be added as a tool bar item but I am curious the rationalization behind this change. That seemed like a great place to have it to me.

I typically use Ctrl+Shift+S for this

I likely would as well if I remembered it. I have always had a problem recalling key combinations across all the applications I use which is why I rely on context menus and tool bars heavily. I've called out VSCode on this a few times as well as it is a memorization fest to work efficiently in there without proper toolbars. It's not just this but I have memory issues in general which have only gotten worse as I've aged. Easy discoverability / access in UI design is a big focus for me.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by tediousdemise »

drewda wrote: post #3

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

Two age-old attack vectors united in perfect harmony.

Certainly nothing will go wrong here.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by coliveira »

jimbob45 wrote: post #11
drewda wrote: post #3

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

Disabled by default, right? Why would you open up such a stupid security hole?

Let me bring some news: all websites already use javascript. Loading javascript from PDFs will be just another source of javascript vulnerabilities.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by gspr »

cardanome wrote: post #49
globular-toast wrote: post #2

I thought FTP support had been removed a long time ago for some reason! I have very fond memories of FTP but I guess its time has come. I probably haven't used it for 10 years at this point.

I used it yesterday. I regularly use FTP at work, well preferably SFTP but it does happen. While we have a automatic deployment pipeline for our own projects, lots of our customers that host externally still use good old FTP. I don't think FTP is ever going to fully die. It is still a typical way to deploy your files when using a shared web hosting that does not offer SSH.

> I don't think FTP is ever going to fully die. It is still a typical way to deploy your files when using a shared web hosting that does not offer SSH.

Surely those abominations are almost dead now though, in the age of the low-overhead VMs?

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by 1_player »

capableweb wrote: post #43
88840-8855 wrote: post #35

I just switched from FF to Brave. Despite the unnecessarily built-in adblocking (I prefer blocking on router level + 2nd layer via ublock) and the BAT stuff, it is a good browser. It feels so fast and snappy. I wished FF was as fast. Macbook Air M1

The best I ever did for performance was switching away from macOS. Sure, Safari and Chrome is really fast on Mac hardware/macOS, but nothing beats the performance of Firefox on Linux.

Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms.

On Linux hardware accel is still iffy, on macOS they implemented support for CoreAnimation one or two years ago, and still looks out of place with the rest of the OS.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by subjectsigma »

drewda wrote: post #3

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

It's horrible for security but it can be really useful. This guy made an entire Dungeons & Dragons character sheet generator embedded into a PDF and I probably wouldn't have ever played D&D without it: https://www.flapkan.com/

I looked at the source code briefly and it's on the order of 10K lines of Javascript.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cletus »

Still no update on super-high CPU usage of Twitch on Firefox, an issue that has been open for at least 4 years [1][2].

I really want to like Firefox and I want there to be viable alternatives to Chrome but when playing video back at 360p (not joking) grinds my 1.5 year old Macbook Pro to a halt on a popular website... I just can't use it.

I don't know if this is a video codec issue, a CSS/JS issue that Twitch manages to trigger or what but it's a problem.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403823

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/917hyv/twitch_in_f...

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jacobmischka »

Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed for release notes? I couldn't find one, and the usual adding feed.xml to the URL trick didn't work in any of the instances I tried.
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