Does this release include javascript MDS mitigations ?
Yes, though they were only necessary on OS X.
Firefox 67.0 Released
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"LED display" term is commonly used for LCD displays where backlight is also actively controlled to increase dynamic range.
Thus the distinction "pure LED" in my previous post. That there are plenty of deceptively labeled LCDs does not mean there are no actual LED displays.
There is nothing deceptive about LED backlit LCDs, they are an important upgrade over CFL backlit LCDs.
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I used to code with black themes for a long time but not anymore: Why not simply lower your screen brightness ? I feel it better for my eyes because the text which i'm looking at is actually dark and not bright. Most people with dark themes have high brightness levels on their screens. I think this can be bad on the long term. Especially that many screen elements are not as dark as their code, which makes them ultra…
Do people also get annoyed at printed paper being white? Do they wish books had black pages? If not, as you say, it is only a matter of adjusting the screen for the proper brightness, depending on ambient light. And it is true that, inevitably, whatever you're doing, sooner or later some white background or picture will appear on screen and blast your eyes with light. I cannot stand this, so I don't use dark themes o…
I mostly use light mode, usually I can't get it bright enough during the day!
I will say my personal "Dev" computer uses dark modes though, I find at night with multiple monitors it's just too bright.
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You can enable it manually with the following: > To turn on WebRender, go to about:config, enable the gfx.webrender.all pref, and restart the browser.
if you enable it & restart on another platform will it work ? how would you confirm it's working ?
It should. To confirm it's working, visit about:support and look for "WebRender" in the "Compositing" field.
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#175Firefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... And it does the right thing and disables the feature when enabling the resist fingerprinting option. I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode
BTW, cheap-ass dark mode can be made by: filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg) on and perhaps fiddling with some backgrounds, to avoid transparency.
nice.
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Just curious, how large is the benefit of this? Does the average user run multiple versions of Firefox side-by-side? I consider myself a power user in many things, but never have I felt the need to run different versions of my browser simultaneously.
There are two sides to that coin: 1. People do genuinely seem to find it useful (it's been a feature in Developer Edition for years), so that's cool, but also... 2. Sharing a profile between different versions of Firefox can cause data loss, and profile-per-install makes it harder to accidentally make that mistake. So it's win-win. As for why people find it useful, I've mainly seen two camps: - People who want to kee…
As I understand it, this only affects running different official builds side by side. But what about running two different instances of a single build side by side with different profiles? The use-case I'm thinking of is something akin to Site Specific Browsers (SSBs), where each site has its own dock icon etc.
Will this ever be possible?
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#178> Users will no longer be able to upload and share screenshots through the Firefox Screenshots server.
I kinda liked that feature, hopefully they replace it with another cloud provider for when you need to take a screenshot for sharing
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BTW, cheap-ass dark mode can be made by: filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg) on and perhaps fiddling with some backgrounds, to avoid transparency.
Interestingly this works only if you have background color explicitly set. Otherwise you still get light background.
Yes, that's the "fiddling with backgrounds" part. :) This is mostly useful if you have prototype app and want a quick and dirty dark mode.
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In both private and not-private windows, the browser asks the user whether to save each password. Nothing is saved unless you explicitly click the Save button.
Ok, but I think the parent is wondering in what situation you'd want to store in the browser details of a site you'd visited, but still use private mode to "hide" that you'd visited? What data does the password use retain? IIRC password store retains the "time first used, time last used" and displays that visibly. In short what's the use-case or user story that fits this feature?
If you password-protect your passwords, aren't they unavailable to anyone else? I use a password manager and that is what it does..