Firefox 68.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by swiley » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #5

> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.

Personally I run busybox httpd on my laptop anyway just because it's convenient for other things.

Still it's not great.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by qplex » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

> WebRender will roll out to Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards. This sounds awesome: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/graphics-team-sh... > WebRender is a major rewrite of the Firefox rendering architecture using the same kind of GPU-based acceleration techniques used by games. I really hope it gets pushed to other Operating Systems as well in the future. Edit: Here's the link to their hacks mozilla…

It's for Linux also. From the article:

"We currently have WebRender enabled in Nightly for:

* Recent Intel and AMD GPUs on Windows 10 desktops

* Linux users on Intel integrated GPUs with Mesa 18.2 or newer with screens smaller than 4K"

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by photon-torpedo » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #5

> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.

So distributing documentation for offline use as a bunch of HTML + CSS files will now run into problems?

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by gjm11 » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

> WebRender will roll out to Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards. This sounds awesome: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/graphics-team-sh... > WebRender is a major rewrite of the Firefox rendering architecture using the same kind of GPU-based acceleration techniques used by games. I really hope it gets pushed to other Operating Systems as well in the future. Edit: Here's the link to their hacks mozilla…

> Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards

It may be worth noting that WebRender was already deployed to Win10/Nvidia users in Firefox 67.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by mtgx » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:39 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

> WebRender will roll out to Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards. This sounds awesome: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/graphics-team-sh... > WebRender is a major rewrite of the Firefox rendering architecture using the same kind of GPU-based acceleration techniques used by games. I really hope it gets pushed to other Operating Systems as well in the future. Edit: Here's the link to their hacks mozilla…

I also love the new Firefox Preview on Android, which I believe is the first time that it uses the "Quantum" improvements. I can't really decide if I like the speed or the new design more, though. I like that the private mode can be permanently enabled/disabled with a tap and how tabs are now presented in it. Still looking forward for extensions to be supported.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by zubspace » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

1) Regarding WebRender: Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop, but aren't they working on Servo? It seems, WebRender is a Gecko thing. I'm confused.

2) I'm also confused about the state of Gecko Embedding. As far as I know many are jumping to Chromium instead of Gecko. What's the plan there? Is Chromium better/easier to embed? Will I be able to embed Servo at some point?

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by jdlyga » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

I've been running Firefox full time on all my computers for a few months now. It's been really good. I've tried to switch away from Chrome in the past, but I've always had to come back due to performance issues or incompatibility with something. But it's basically 95% on par with Chrome now (missing a few things like syncing search engines, etc)

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by Wehrdo » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #5

> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.

For what it's worth, I'm still able to open and use Doxygen HTML docs without running a web server. Looks like it loads both CSS and JS. So I'm not sure what the changenote actually means.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by leeoniya » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #5

> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.

i wrote some offline webapps for my mom with html, css and js. she just opens a local html file on her android tablet. will they stop working?

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by geokon » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

"Cryptomining and fingerprinting protections are added to strict content blocking settings in Privacy & Security preferences."

my first reaction is it's really sad to see this. looks like something Google blackmailed them into adding. maybe Im missing some aspect to this.. but why is mining crypto bad but showing ads is not?

I rather mine coins/ether/whatever for the website owners than see more ads

moving away from the web being funded by advertisement to a web funded by distributed computing is what a lot of people have been looking forward to, no?