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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by OGWhales »

bambax wrote: post #137
yori wrote: post #5

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…

I finally switched to FF two months ago after the uBlock fiasco, and I find it ok. Is it as fast as Chrome? No. Does it never freeze? No. But is it good enough? Hell yes.

What was the ublock fiasco?

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Siecje »

The only thing that doesn't work in Firefox is exec in the kubernetes dashboard. I have to switch to Chromium when I need to do that.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by megous »

posix_me_less wrote: post #108
mxmilkb wrote: post #81

Can anyone advise how far away hardware accelerated video on Linux might be?

In a browser, gpu acceleration is a security risk, cf. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/13799/is-webgl-... TLDR: if js gets direct control of GPU, it can read/modify present and past screens. Maybe after Wayland implementations get good enough, distributions will make hw acceleration work securely with wayland compositors, probably years? Just guessing. Playing video on youtube is easy, but performance su…

GPU != video acceleration.

The question is about whether FF is finally using va-api to accelerate video codec decoding.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by pvik »

kevingadd wrote: post #63
krbzsq wrote: post #47

Okay, so I don't really post to HN and this may seem like a silly complaint but Firefox's management of theming just seems off to me. I use macOS, I don't fiddle about with my wallpaper very much and so this stains Firefox's top bar with an ugly brown tint. I could switch to the light theme, however when I do so Firefox no longer respects my system change to dark mode. Does anyone else get bothered by this? Is there…

You could also try Firefox Color which provides customizable theming for Firefox, I've had good results with it https://color.firefox.com

Firefox Color is great!! It lets me seamless blend firefox with my doom-themed i3wm and emacs.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/t9tvbQr [2] https://i.imgur.com/GXrTw7C.png [3] https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/9f29vr/i3_doom_co...

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by tgv »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

> Open new windows more quickly.

Windows open more quickly now than before. A few versions ago, it had become unbearably slow (I'm an FF user since Camino died), and I stuck to using tabs only, but 72 seems to have caught up again. I estimate that it's around 0.3s slower than Chrome on my machine.

> Use the platform native key store.

Amen to that.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

tpmx wrote: post #136
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

> Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) I assume you mean new tabs? That's very quick on Windows using FF 72. Interestingly that's been a long-time annoyance of mine when using Chrome on Mac - when compared to Safari which shines here.

>I assume you mean new tabs?

No, I mean windows. Opening tabs is very fast.

Many of my workflows begin by opening an new empty browser window. I also tend to open links in new windows instead of tabs. I'm not a huge fan of tabs generally.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by megous »

40four wrote: post #77
nabergh wrote: post #42

My biggest gripe with Firefox is how it opens tabs. If I open a new tab in Chrome, it opens just to the right of the current one which is nice because it keeps related tabs together. In Firefox it opens to the far right which is annoying. I tried installing an extension to fix this but it was buggy. Only recently did I discover that I could dig into about:config to enable the behavior I consider expected (and I'm sur…

I already updated to v.72 so I don't know if they changed the default, never really noticed before. But now browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent defaults to 'true'. I agree this is expected behavior :)

That only applies when you open a tab by clicking on a link. If you do ctrl+t, you'll get new tab at the far right.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by ravedave5 »

Twirrim wrote: post #40

"Firefox replaces annoying notification request pop-ups with a more delightful experience, by default for all users. The pop-ups no longer interrupt your browsing, in its place, a speech bubble will appear in the address bar when you interact with the site." That should pretty much kill off a lot of the notification request crap, especially if Chrome follows suit. I can envision the conversion rate massively falling…

How sad is the current age that this is the feature I'm most excited about in like the last 6 months of browser changes.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by w-m »

m_eiman wrote: post #128

I just upgraded my iMac to Catalina, and noticed this rather serious issue with Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606620 Basically if you have an external screen (possibly related to it being low-DPI and main screen being Retina), context menus don't work properly, if at all. It seems it got even worse in 72 than it was in 71 - now I'm not even getting a context menu in the wrong place, it's invi…

Ah, that's this 20 year old bug, that predates Mac OS X, striking again: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by makecheck »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

The window-opening animation might be a factor (applies across all of macOS).

You can disable it for all windows in all applications using a terminal command:

    defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
You might need to restart apps to see this change.
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