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Re: Firefox 93

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Post by nonbirithm »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #7

> Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format PARTY! I've been waiting for this for a long time. The last big hurdle for this was that color spaces weren't applied correctly. If you haven't taken a look at AVIF, do. You can get a similar looking image in AVIF at half the size as a JPEG. I find AVIF's image artifacts preferable to JPEG's.

I've found AVIF's spec to be massive and overly complicated to implement in its entirety. Four years later, ffmpeg doesn't even support AVIF/HEIC encoding or decoding yet, despite those formats arguably becoming ubiquitous thanks to Apple.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/6521

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by rado »

handrous wrote: post #128
rado wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M1 users also reported performance degradation. Second line: do you mean Chrome? I don't know, Safari is my main browser, which might change after v15...

My journey from FF to Safari started back in 2012 or 2013 when I noticed Chrome didn't make my whole system slow, like FF did, so I switched to Chrome. Then I realized that I'd gain like 2+hrs of battery life if I used Safari, and it was even more respectful of multitasking and system resources, so that's what I'm on now. The iOS integration is great too, but I'd switch if someone beat them on overall system resource…

Safari’s meteoric rise for me started by the time Metal was introduced ca 2014. It smoked the competition consistently until this year’s v15. I wish the performance drop was scrutinised as much as the UI issues, which are also terrible.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by rado »

maccolgan wrote: post #117
rado wrote: post #108

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The EU should take over Firefox, because the impartial web is a crucial part of everyday life.

Being taken over by the EU would make it very far from being a part of an "impartial" web.

EU sells user data?

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by pulsarmx »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #115
streblo wrote: post #91

Here's what I desperately want from Firefox, which I currently have from Chrome: isolated browser profiles tied to an account. I have two browser windows open at all times, one for my personal stuff and one for my work stuff. I want to keep those two windows totally isolated, where I log in with all my work accounts in one window, and all my personal accounts in the other window. Chrome does this by tying the window…

If you want the exact equivalent, use Firefox profiles (-p at startup, or install the profile switcher addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profile-switc... ). But Firefox has a much better feature: tab containers. You can attach a label to a tab, and only tabs sharing this label will share states, such as cookies, cache, localstorage and so on. This means you don't need to open a new window. You can…

Tab Containers are a nice feature, but aren't quite there yet. For example, history is currently not isolated per container:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283320

Multiple browser profiles also let me have one profile for work, another one for personal stuff, and yet another one only with stuff like vue/react/svelte dev tools and remote debugging enabled, and _then_ decide which one to open at any given time. This instead of opening every container at once, or something like selectively opening a bunch of bookmarks manually into a specific container (I use buku to manage and sync my bookmarks too, so no tab container support there).

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by rahoulb »

Wevah wrote: post #192
rahoulb wrote: post #131

Slightly off-topic but John Gruber has been writing about the new version of Safari[1] (and it's tabs and how they do or don't work) - and he linked back to some posts of his about Camino, which I'd forgotten about. Camino was the Gecko engine from Firefox in a "proper" Mac UI (unlike Firefox at the time, which was their cross-platform XUL UI). I used to use it as my primary browser and I really liked it. What killed…

IIRC the real nail in the coffin for Camino was the phasing out of support for embedded Gecko. (I was a Camino dev.)

Thank you for your work. I enjoyed it.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by perihelions »

HMH wrote: post #82
JonathanBeuys wrote: post #49

I am currently trying Ubuntu for the first time in a long while and it comes with Firefox as the default browser. My problem is that Firefox has a "snapping" scroll behavior that I find very annoying. When I move my fingers on the touchpad of my laptop, that does not immediately move the page. Instead, it waits until I moved a certain distance and then moves in one big swoosh. Starting Firefox from the command line l…

I have this set in /etc/environment and it's working fine for me.

Also ~/.config/environment.d/ (equivalent, but user-local).

Wiki for the curious: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/environment_variables#Per_u...

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by dr-detroit »

akie wrote: post #17

Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

lol google pays for FF to exist you fools

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by soperj »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #146
soperj wrote: post #127

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Could almost just get a patreon together, and then fund a developer from it? Because I think if you put out a job posting, working on firefox independent from Mozilla someone would take you up on it.

There are several Firefox forks supported by donations. LibreWolf and Pale Moon being just two examples. Inertia and network effects won't change quickly though

I meant not a fork, but just a developer. I would love to work on Firefox full time without actually working for Mozilla. I'm sure you could find much more qualified candidates than me who would also do so.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by starik36 »

loxias wrote: post #188
starik36 wrote: post #181

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> I still use Firefox, mainly because I would like there to be another option I see people write that. But I use Firefox because I truly feel it's the best browser out there.

I'm with you. I used to use Firefox for "everything but videos and gmail", which went in Chrome. But after v92 I think, I stopped going to Chrome for ... anything. My CPU has been happier!

I actually prefer videos in Firefox because of picture in picture. But yeah, with Gmail in Firefox you've had to basically switch to HTML mode. It's gotten a lot better though in recent releases.

Re: Firefox 93

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Post by wintermutestwin »

Spivak wrote: post #150
wintermutestwin wrote: post #95

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You should see what godaddy charges to manage SSL for a WP site!

Let me see if I understand this, SSL is bad because one very well known to be shitty hosting provider charges lots of money for it? And we should hold back securing web traffic on the internet until such time as GoDaddy changes their pricing structure? Look I get it, if I hosted sites on shitty providers and couldn’t change because of corporate BS I would be frustrated too. But “everyone else should change to accommo…

I think you misunderstood me and are reading a lot more into my post than I intended. I was just making the point that godaddy's annoyingly large fee is an example of a contributing factor to the plague of non-SSL sites.
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