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Re: Firefox 93

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Post by jraph »

chmod775 wrote: post #96
JonathanBeuys wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm.. I tried to execute "export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1" in the terminal and then start FF from the GUI and it did not have an impact. So I guess it would also not work in .bashrc. But not sure.

No that's not how that works. Environment variables are inherited from parent processes. If you just put that in a sibling process (like a terminal), it won't run firefox with that variable if you run it from the GUI. Your .bash_profile allows you to set up the environment for your entire session.

I would not expect my desktop environment to run my .bash_profile. Especially when I don't even use bash as my default shell.

I'm afraid each desktop environment probably has its specific way of adding environment variables.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by detritus »

gpm wrote: post #67
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?

Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?

I coulda sworn they themselves said they were going to introduce a means of paying a contribution 'sometime next year', sometime last year.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by LeonenTheDK »

andrewshadura wrote: post #47

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).

This is just what I've been waiting for, thank you for pointing it out! I've been using an extension to do it until now.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by CameronNemo »

marshall_law wrote: post #119

I got a kick out of the section about the Y10K problem in the docs for the new datetime-local input type: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

I am just glad that all major browsers besides IE now support the input type. Granted, you still likely want compatibility with Firefox ESR. But it is nice to know that the polyfill will gradually become less and less necessary.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by soperj »

gpm wrote: post #67
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?

Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?

Could almost just get a patreon together, and then fund a developer from it? Because I think if you put out a job posting, working on firefox independent from Mozilla someone would take you up on it.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by handrous »

rado wrote: post #113
handrous wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

M1 users also reported performance degradation. Second line: do you mean Chrome? I don't know, Safari is my main browser, which might change after v15...

My journey from FF to Safari started back in 2012 or 2013 when I noticed Chrome didn't make my whole system slow, like FF did, so I switched to Chrome. Then I realized that I'd gain like 2+hrs of battery life if I used Safari, and it was even more respectful of multitasking and system resources, so that's what I'm on now. The iOS integration is great too, but I'd switch if someone beat them on overall system resource use (not "speed"—I know Chrome especially has loved that metric for a long time, but I do not care if it runs Quake compiled to WASM at a higher framerate or whatever)

[EDIT] FWIW, FF user since Phoenix & Firebird, haven't loved it since IIRC FF3 (yes, 3) when it started to bloat itself into being the sluggish, huge thing it replaced. I still use it on my Windows gaming desktop, but that's because I barely use the browser on there, and it's plugged into wall power. Safari 15's UI is god-awful though, so I'm primed for a switch.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by jhomedall »

literallyWTF wrote: post #40
HMH wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would be massively annoying for my local network. I trust that I do not mitm myself for malicious reasons and really do not feel like setting up certs on my lan... Talking about certs, nowadays it seems browsers want to make you believe that self signed certs are some diabolical work straight from hell. Using self signed certs with websockets on Firefox is actually nearly impossible [1]. [1]: https://bugzilla.mo…

The push to demonize self-signed certs literally makes me think browsers are in the pocket of BigCert

Certificates from Let's Encrypt are free.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by dtech »

cptskippy wrote: post #112
gpm wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?

> Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this 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.

Their nonprofit is already accepting donations and they are already selling services. I can't be that hard to "sell" a cosmetic Firefox Premium upgrade, although it might not be used enough to be worth it.
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