Firefox 88.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by cherrycherry98 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:22 AM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #132

iorrus wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I moved away from FF as well after they got too political, very happy with Brave.

Since when has Firefox ever been "political"?

Mozilla has increasingly become more of a political organization than a technology one. Where it used to focus on stewardship of the Mozilla code, its scope has now shifted to broadly "building a better internet".

The Mozilla mission 2005:

"Established in July, 2003, with start-up support from America Online's Netscape division, the Mozilla Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open-source software project."

The Mozilla mission 2021:

"Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent."

This shift has manifested itself in different ways which broadly align with American left politics. The homepage and blog are speckled with articles promoting diversity initiatives, endorsing BLM, calling for systemic change, endorsing net neutrality, and fighting misinformation.

Mozilla is also one of the organizations at the forefront of sanitizing language it deems problematic in any way:

* Removing "meritocracy" from the governance docs - https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/words-matter-moving-beyond-...

* Changing "master password" to "primary password" - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/primary-password-replac...

* Removing "crazy" from the codebase - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675987

* Removing words deemed as reference to mental illness - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675986

Some like this sort of thing and see it as positive, to other it's alienating.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by darekkay » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:02 AM UTC

Too bad AVIF images are still not supported (only behind a feature flag). Hopefully they will be able to solve the last bugs [1] that prevent this feature from being shipped.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443863

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by globular-toast » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 8:43 AM UTC

51Cards wrote: post #23

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 would have been happier if it had just be locked down to secure connections only. I have used FTP to quickly share files to colleagues at times and this will be broken now. I'm sure I was in a very minimal percentage but it was handy to just send someone an FTP link. Now if I don't want to have to upload it to an external service I will have to share it through my web server which brings up all kinds of MIME type i…

Try this to quickly share files with colleagues:

python -m http.server [port]

This will share the current directory using HTTP on port 80 by default unless you provide an alternative with [port].

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jangid » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

Y_Y wrote: post #65

51Cards wrote: post #39

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Agreed, I was on a public FTP site about a month ago browsing through old support files. Now I'll have to configure a client for it. Edit: this might be a small opportunity for some of the native FTP apps to jump in and handle the links. Click an FTP link in the browser and launch my FTP client with the details passed through.

Your native file manager probably works fine with FTP.

And if you use Emacs then Tramp covers it.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by mgv11 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 10:48 AM UTC

zouhair wrote: post #189

tristan957 wrote: post #119

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You can use cURL to access FTP sites fyi.

You can also use assembler to make a video game.

That was a good one :)

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by sdawg123 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

pfranz wrote: post #175

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well. I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcu…

I just recently found out, you can use "Look Up" on Firefox for Macs, by tapping a word (or highlighted text) with three fingers on the trackpad.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by atat7024 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by atat7024 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #136

curt15 wrote: post #27

>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.

This doesn't work for me; found something that seems to suggest it's gated behind an about:config option and only works on Wayland anyway[0]. Oh well. [0] https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/firefox-88-will-activate-the...

They're not treating X11 as first class citizen because it's a insecure history compared to Wayland.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by butz » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 3:19 PM UTC

bscphil wrote: post #184

butz wrote: post #176

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You might be able to revert them using userchrome.css ( https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b... ). And as "megabar" update has shown, this new "tab" style will probably be reverted in future redesign.

> And as "megabar" update has shown, this new "tab" style will probably be reverted in future redesign. Did they really revert the megabar? I can't find anything about that with searches. (I fixed it to look exactly like the old design with usercss, so I can't easily check myself.) As a side note, anyone using TreeStyleTab is probably immune from Mozilla's awful tab style revamp, as the tabs in TST are styled using C…

There was this comment about removing large Urlbar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698656#c2

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by wayneftw » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 3:23 PM UTC

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

Manjaro Linux, XFCE on an (old!!) i7-4770 at github.com:

- Chrome 5-8%

- Firefox 6-7%