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Fantastic news for people, like me, who spend a lot of time with $10/GB hotspot data prices. I'd click a link to a 5KB news article only to find it streaming HD video of talking heads reading the article.
> 5KB news article On what site do you find "5KB news articles"? Pretty much all news sites that I know of load a gigantic amount of useless and obnoxious JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. with or without video.
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Holy shit, just why? It makes virtually no difference. Neither applying CSS (they already use a lot) nor loading a file take any time.
It has to have been showing up in profiles for them to bother, nobody would go out of their way to disable it otherwise. They added a pref to turn it back on and then disabled it instead of the easy thing (just removing it) which is some engineering effort plus testing effort to make sure the pref works right. Silly to do that for nothing. Antivirus software does add a measurable delay to file operations sometimes, a…
And yes, file I/O was the issue.
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Holy shit, just why? It makes virtually no difference. Neither applying CSS (they already use a lot) nor loading a file take any time.
Yeah, sounds like a non-reason, my user CSS was like 5 lines. I'll have to run an extension that will be injecting JS/CSS into every page, to get the same effect. That will likely be slower. Not a speed improvement exactly. At least it's more powerful. I can replace any rule inside already loaded CSS. Useful to escape this braindead age of "font-size < 16px && font-weight < 400".
> The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound. Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it! Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throat…
Fantastic news for people, like me, who spend a lot of time with $10/GB hotspot data prices. I'd click a link to a 5KB news article only to find it streaming HD video of talking heads reading the article.
You can pair that with addon called, "Image video block" https://github.com/tiborbarsi/image-video-block-browser-addo...
And finally, you can use Bandwidth hero to compress images on the fly. You need to host the server instance on Heroku. Their free tier should suffice
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I'm usually in agreement with that, but I admit I've found the occasional article that drew my attention from Firefox's new tab page. Maybe once every week or two over that last couple months. That may or may not be enough to justify its existence (for me, at least), but it's not nothing. I obviously got some value out of it.
Yeah, I get so much value from Pocket that I even switched from Instapaper. It's not Pocket that's the problem, it's the gross attempted force-feeding (that just makes me want to try some other browser like Brave (not an endorsement, just what I personally would investigate next)). How about, instead of "we plastered all this shit from the crap we bought onto every single browser window you henceforth open, you mindl…
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Does anyone know the technical reason that the OS can't handle that itself?
Not using OSX, but I have some ideas. An app tells an OS it gonna use OpenGL to 3D render stuff. Generally, the OS doesn’t know whether it’s a competitive 3D shooter where each FPS really matters, or a web browser which only uses OpenGL to render a few textured quads. If the OS will default to slower integrated GPU, users will be unhappy, they want 3D performance. So the OSes typically power up the faster GPU in such…
Is it possible to submit application names for this? This issue frequently comes up with our free simulator/game.
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
the new tab page is the first thing i replace after installing ublock origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...
Uncheck everything except Top sites.
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
What the hell is "the best of Pocket's content" ? I switched to FireFox to avoid stuff like this.
> macOS users on dual-graphics-card machines (like MacBook Pro) will switch back to the low-power GPU more aggressively, saving battery life. macOS user base can now consider FF as a viable browser alternative.
This was the single thing I was hoping to see here. Upgrading now.
The next version will drop OpenGL and use Core Animation instead.
I know a lot of people have become impatient, but they have been doing a huge amount of work behind the scenes.