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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/
It's already in Firefox Nightly and Chrome Beta as far as I know.
For Firefox you need the nightlies I believe - I had no luck with release Firefox 93.
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?
Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?
As someone who works on the digital payments/processing side of the house for a charity, I can tell you that accepting designations is a can of worms that smaller charities would certainly want to avoid.
Plot twist: FF used to be very slow, but 93 is now as fast as Chrome on Mac, leaving the wretched Safari 15 in the dust. (Testing Google Street View)
That's cool, but I'm on an M1. Everything is fast. How's it do on battery life? How often does it turn out to be the culprit behind system-wide performance problems, if you've just got it sitting open in the background while you're doing other stuff?
> 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.
Edit: I found few examples here: https://colinbendell.github.io/webperf/animated-gif-decode/a...
Here's what I desperately want from Firefox, which I currently have from Chrome: isolated browser profiles tied to an account. I have two browser windows open at all times, one for my personal stuff and one for my work stuff. I want to keep those two windows totally isolated, where I log in with all my work accounts in one window, and all my personal accounts in the other window. Chrome does this by tying the window…
But Firefox has a much better feature: tab containers. You can attach a label to a tab, and only tabs sharing this label will share states, such as cookies, cache, localstorage and so on. This means you don't need to open a new window. You can have 2 HN accounts with each a different user logged in, in 2 tabs, next to each other, distinguishable with a color.
You can use it by activating a few settings in about:config (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers#w_for-advanc...), but the easiest way it to use the addon : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...
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> 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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>"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.
The EU should take over Firefox, because the impartial web is a crucial part of everyday life.
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I have this set in /etc/environment and it's working fine for me.
Oh wow, I never heard about /etc/environment. At which occasions does it get executed?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
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I have this set in /etc/environment and it's working fine for me.
Oh wow, I never heard about /etc/environment. At which occasions does it get executed?
Usually, PAM will load environment variables during session initialization; I'm pretty sure that's the thing that reads /etc/environment. See man pam_env; though whether it works depends on whether that module is enabled in your PAM configuration.
You can also have other things read environment variables. If a user systemd instance is launched that starts the rest of your session, that will load environment variables from various places (it also affects things launched indirectly through it, eg. via D-Bus, that can't inherit your environment from the shell)
The "last" level in a typical GUI session is the shell in your terminal which will read the "traditional" files, but they aren't usually very useful for GUI applications because the GUI applications generally aren't started from any process that has a shell in its ancestry nowadays.