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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by johannh »

megous wrote: post #177
krtkush wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about web apps too not show annoying pop-ups which are pretty useless in most cases? Websites which show two pop-ups (custom pop-up followed by browser pop-up) are worse.

My website doesn't show any popups. I have a settings dialog that user can open and setup email and other notifications. This will just not work anymore. I'll have to add some long winded FF specific explanation on what to do after clicking the button. Anyway the FF UI is broken if user physically can't see any reaction from the browser after he requests notifications by clicking anywhere on the page.

If your users are clicking a button then it should actually show the permission prompt, unless you're losing the user interaction somewhere in the callback (by doing something async first)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/11/upcoming-notification-perm...

This is a frequent "mistake"/issue however, and we're working on a mitigation for it.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by the_duke »

megous wrote: post #167
40four wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is toggled by "browser.tabs.insertAfterContent" ( vs insertRelatedAfterContent).

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zcdziura »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #184

Has firefox fixed video playback on sites like instagram and gfycat yet? Their mp4 playback was broken for a significant number of videos last time I attempted to update. I'm still on an FF version 10 versions back because of their atrocious compatibility with mp4s (which is still incompatible, but less so).

What have you noticed about mp4 video playback that is broken? I've used Firefox as my daily driver for many, many years (even before the Quantum updates) and have never noticed any playback errors.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by [deleted] »

megous wrote: post #167
40four wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by lorenzhs »

the_duke wrote: post #192
megous wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That is toggled by "browser.tabs.insertAfterContent" ( vs insertRelatedAfterContent).

You have a typo there, it's browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent and browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent (Current, not Content), just in case someone tries to copy and paste those into about:config

Re: Firefox 72.0

#196

Post by jannes »

jvzr wrote: post #130
abcd_f wrote: post #48

Re: picture in picture - anyone else here think that this feature doesn't belong to a browser? It just seems so... erm... random, basically. Looks like something that was cloned from some other product and rather crudely shoehorned in. At the very least it should have been introduced after an update and given an option to opt-in to using it, rather than automatically enabling it without any notice.

I love it and use it multiple (25+) times per day. My only wish is that it kept the interface from whichever player the videos comes from (eg. YouTube's, Netflix's, etc., especially for subtitles & platform-specific controls like Speed)

If Firefox kept any website-controlled interface it would give websites an opportunity to block the feature by overlaying it with a black rectangle.

Most content providers probably don't like this feature.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by hackinthebochs »

zcdziura wrote: post #193
hackinthebochs wrote: post #184

Has firefox fixed video playback on sites like instagram and gfycat yet? Their mp4 playback was broken for a significant number of videos last time I attempted to update. I'm still on an FF version 10 versions back because of their atrocious compatibility with mp4s (which is still incompatible, but less so).

What have you noticed about mp4 video playback that is broken? I've used Firefox as my daily driver for many, many years (even before the Quantum updates) and have never noticed any playback errors.

It simply doesn't work for some non-trivial amount of videos, e.g. some instagram stories or gfycat mp4s. If you load the link directly in the browser it will say the file is corrupt. Loading the same link in chrome plays fine.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by dsirola »

I really like Firefox, but I had to switch back to Chrome because of resource usage. After using it for some time it got up to 3GB RAM consumption for a single tab with no plugins.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#199

Post by npongratz »

OGWhales wrote: post #161
bambax wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not OP, but probably referencing Chrome's v3 manifest: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338

HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050173 (281 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 (893 comments)

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by surround »

IshKebab wrote: post #70

Does fingerprint blocking just use a blacklist, like ad blockers? Seems like a pretty lame approach. Shouldn't they focus on approaches that work for all future scripts? I.e. making browsers seem less unique.

Yes, it’s a blacklist. However, there is ongoing work to improve privacy.resistFingerprinting (enabled in about:config) which makes the browser more similar to other users with this setting enabled.
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