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Re: Firefox 93

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Post by kongin »

akie wrote: post #17

Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

> Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

Best we can do is spending the money on women who code outreach.

Not sure what that has to do with web browsers, but I'm sure the CEO who managed to lose 80% market share knows better than me.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by lifthrasiir »

bla3 wrote: post #18
yboris wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm looking forward to the wide adoption of JPEG XL (.jxl - "jixel") file format. It's the format that will replace JPEG! https://jpegxl.info/

I kind of doubt it. JPEG is good enough, and is pervasive. JPEG XL is better, but removing an incumbent file format requires more than just being better. We'll see.

JPEG XL supports a recompression and bit-perfect reconstruction of JPEG(1) files, so once it got universal support it does have the biggest potential to completely displace JPEG.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by kongin »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #35
akie wrote: post #17

Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?" In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that way. Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome's dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.

Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by Nextgrid »

samschooler wrote: post #38
Nextgrid wrote: post #32

Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...

Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/

It's yet another thing to install & configure manually. For a browser that boasts about privacy at every possible opportunity I'd expect something as standard & essential (in this day and age) to be included.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by baggy_trough »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #7

> Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format PARTY! I've been waiting for this for a long time. The last big hurdle for this was that color spaces weren't applied correctly. If you haven't taken a look at AVIF, do. You can get a similar looking image in AVIF at half the size as a JPEG. I find AVIF's image artifacts preferable to JPEG's.

Speaking of AVIF, I wonder why Microsoft Edge doesn't support it while the matching version of Chrome does.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by andrewshadura »

A new setting not mentioned in the release notes:

layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override = 1

  # An override for prefers-color-scheme for content documents.
  #
  # Dark (0), light (1), or system (2).
I use it to force webpages to use light theme while having dark browser UI elements (menus, tabs etc).

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by JonathanBeuys »

I am currently trying Ubuntu for the first time in a long while and it comes with Firefox as the default browser.

My problem is that Firefox has a "snapping" scroll behavior that I find very annoying. When I move my fingers on the touchpad of my laptop, that does not immediately move the page. Instead, it waits until I moved a certain distance and then moves in one big swoosh.

Starting Firefox from the command line like this solves it:

MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox

Is there a way to make this permanent or accomplish the same via a setting in about:config?

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by lifthrasiir »

Nextgrid wrote: post #30
mijailt wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://donate.mozilla.org ?

> Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organisation based in San Francisco, California, to be used in its discretion for its charitable purposes. This goes to the Mozilla Foundation and not to the browser's development. As far as I know there is currently no way to donate to the browser 's development.

Buy products [1] from the Mozilla Corporation if it's your concern.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/

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