Firefox 67.0 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by gerbilly » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC

mbrubeck wrote: post #16

gerbilly wrote: post #6

I tried to see if letterboxing was enabled, but it didn't seem to make a difference.¹ Does anyone know whether they included this feature, and if so how to enable it? 1: https://browserleaks.com/javascript still detects my window size down to the pixel.

Set the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" pref to "true"

I had that setting set to true since before the update.

Every site that mentions letterboxing claims this is the setting to use to enable it.

However, unless I misunderstand, it does not seem to enable it.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by jdlyga » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

I've tried to switch to Firefox, but I keep running into rendering engine issues with certain sites. It's like it's 2005 again.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by geekles » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

zimbatm wrote: post #11

Firefox 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

The new Microsoft Edge has prefers-color-scheme as well.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by cesarb » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

> Change to extensions in Private Windows: Any new extensions you add to the browser won’t work in Private Windows unless you allow this in the settings.

Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by fghtr » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

jdlyga wrote: post #22

I've tried to switch to Firefox, but I keep running into rendering engine issues with certain sites. It's like it's 2005 again.

Which sites?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by toddsiegel » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

zimbatm wrote: post #11

Firefox 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

Ahem, HN. I bet most of your dedicated users (albeit who also use FF or Safari) would benefit from this.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by ncmncm » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

Running Firefox under Qubes has become increasingly frustrating, as tabs crash whenever (apparently?) they try to use WebGL, or anything that depends on access to a GPU. More and more, Firefox seems to depend on GPU access (or something?) and fails hard when it's not there.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by copperx » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

ncmncm wrote: post #17

zimbatm wrote: post #11

Firefox 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

Dark mode, for the first time ever, has legitimate, objective reasons to want, now that we have pure LED displays: a black LED pixel consumes no energy.

You must mean OLED. And no, there are almost no desktop OLED monitors in the wild.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by caiob » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

cesarb wrote: post #24

> Change to extensions in Private Windows: Any new extensions you add to the browser won’t work in Private Windows unless you allow this in the settings. Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?

That's why they're called "Private".

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by corobo » Tue, May 21, 2019, 1:54 PM UTC

darkpuma wrote: post #4

> "Suspending unused tabs" I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.

Somewhat eerie.. I recently installed a tab suspender because a tab crashed or lagged out so I killed its process

This version of Firefox is obviously because of me :P