Firefox 26 is released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by riquito » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:27 PM UTC

> Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (847223) ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 )

This is pretty cool

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by Drexl » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #20

csmuk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great news! It means I can actually have a full java plugin installation and just activate the applets I know are safe! I can have my java and eat it, but people can't make it eat me :)

Hasn't this been possible with extensions though?

Sure, but teaching people to install, or even feel comfortable installing, such things can be a challenge sometimes. :-/

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by csmuk » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #20

csmuk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great news! It means I can actually have a full java plugin installation and just activate the applets I know are safe! I can have my java and eat it, but people can't make it eat me :)

Hasn't this been possible with extensions though?

Yeah but they're all crap.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by benjamincburns » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

Maybe I'm biased, but jor1k is my FF benchmark of choice these days. Sadly I'm not seeing any major performance increase over FF 25 (posting this from jor1k via links [1]).

1: http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k (had to edit in the link as the ':' and '-' keys don't appear to be working)

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by caissy » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

super_mario wrote: post #16

caissy wrote: post #4

> There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache. Quite happy with this one. I had to develop an offline web-based application a few weeks ago and it really bugged me that I had to allow the application to use the offline cache.

I'd like to know if some web developer has decided to use 5 GB of offline storage for their app.

Well, AppCache works just as an offline caching system for webpage assets (html files, images, javascripts, css, etc). So yeah it's technically possible to have a 5 GB offline cache, but the browser will need to download all the data first.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by padenot » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #18

pwnna wrote: post #5

> Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed \o/

What are the appropriate plugins and how do I find out if I have them? I have an Intel card and normally use mplayer-vaapi[1] to get hardware acceleration for decoding. [1] https://launchpad.net/~sander-vangrieken/+archive/vaapi

I'm not sure we have done the necessary work for vaapi to work sanely. However, software h264/aac video work just fine, here. mp3 also works on this release (same deal, you have to have the right gstreamer plugins), iirc (it certainly works on Nightly, which is what I use).

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by phaer » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

Ygg2 wrote: post #15

I have a silly request, can timings on Network tab be displayed on mouse hover? I hate having to click to measure which part took much time? This is @Mozilla Web inspector

I think bugzilla, mailinglists and irc channels might be better places to request a feature request than a comment on hacker news.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by dijit » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

>Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed

I was trying to do this for ages using plug-ins, nothing works- was told to run nightly- but I need this browser.

can't wait until it makes it's way into repo's :D

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by dijit » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

benjamincburns wrote: post #24

Maybe I'm biased, but jor1k is my FF benchmark of choice these days. Sadly I'm not seeing any major performance increase over FF 25 (posting this from jor1k via links [1]). 1: http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k (had to edit in the link as the ':' and '-' keys don't appear to be working)

hm, that's simple 'does this use case run 1 thing particularly well.'

EXIF rotation and ability to use gstreamer for video are massive feature improvements that may result in slower page generation, but the returns are far more significant.

not everything has to be 'better, faster, smaller' making things generally better with _no_ regressions is difficult enough.

Re: Firefox 26 is released

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Post by d0ugie » Tue, Dec 10, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

phaer wrote: post #27

Ygg2 wrote: post #15

I have a silly request, can timings on Network tab be displayed on mouse hover? I hate having to click to measure which part took much time? This is @Mozilla Web inspector

I think bugzilla, mailinglists and irc channels might be better places to request a feature request than a comment on hacker news.

perhaps, so long as it's not a request for WebP support