Firefox 26 is released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#11

Post by kibwen » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

According to the #ux channel on irc.mozilla.org, Australis will be relegated to Nightly builds (Firefox 29) for a while yet, and might be as late as Firefox 30 depending on the speed at which bugfixes roll in. Sorry, Aurora users. :(

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#12

Post by csmuk » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:08 PM UTC

prteja11 wrote: post #3

Love this - All Java plug-ins are defaulted to 'click to play' I tried convincing my coworkers to disable java and failed (we are not developers).

This is great news!

It means I can actually have a full java plugin installation and just activate the applets I know are safe!

I can have my java and eat it, but people can't make it eat me :)

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#13

Post by scrabble » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

crb002 wrote: post #8

Lol. I like the unresolved finger given to Flash.

I encounter this issue frequently, so I'd prefer if it was resolved.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#14

Post by JohnTHaller » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #11

According to the #ux channel on irc.mozilla.org, Australis will be relegated to Nightly builds (Firefox 29) for a while yet, and might be as late as Firefox 30 depending on the speed at which bugfixes roll in. Sorry, Aurora users. :(

That still means it would only be about 5 months.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#15

Post by Ygg2 » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

I have a silly request, can timings on Network tab be displayed on mouse hover? I hate having to click to measure which part took much time? This is @Mozilla Web inspector

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#16

Post by super_mario » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

caissy wrote: post #4

> There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache. Quite happy with this one. I had to develop an offline web-based application a few weeks ago and it really bugged me that I had to allow the application to use the offline cache.

I'd like to know if some web developer has decided to use 5 GB of offline storage for their app.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#17

Post by yeukhon » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:19 PM UTC

JohnTHaller wrote: post #14

kibwen wrote: post #11

According to the #ux channel on irc.mozilla.org, Australis will be relegated to Nightly builds (Firefox 29) for a while yet, and might be as late as Firefox 30 depending on the speed at which bugfixes roll in. Sorry, Aurora users. :(

That still means it would only be about 5 months.

Yeah. to clarify for people who are not clear, see this https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#18

Post by spindritf » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

pwnna wrote: post #5

> Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed \o/

What are the appropriate plugins and how do I find out if I have them? I have an Intel card and normally use mplayer-vaapi[1] to get hardware acceleration for decoding.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~sander-vangrieken/+archive/vaapi

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#19

Post by jevinskie » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:25 PM UTC

EXIF rotation was long overdue but I'm happy it finally landed!

Re: Firefox 26 is released

#20

Post by fredsted » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:25 PM UTC

csmuk wrote: post #12

prteja11 wrote: post #3

Love this - All Java plug-ins are defaulted to 'click to play' I tried convincing my coworkers to disable java and failed (we are not developers).

This is great news! It means I can actually have a full java plugin installation and just activate the applets I know are safe! I can have my java and eat it, but people can't make it eat me :)

Hasn't this been possible with extensions though?