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Isn’t it possible to disable gpu in about:config?
about:config certainly has lots of settings to turn off, but I manifestly have not found enough of them, if indeed any number is enough.
A few switches of relevance: layers.acceleration, webgl.disabled, media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled, gfx.webrender.force-disabled
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I see the use case for developers who want to test multiple versions. But as stevekemp said, the average user is losing their profile when simply upgrading from one version to the next. And it seems that the fix to this is to go back into the Profile Manager and set you old profile as the new default. Wouldn't this inadvertently cause data loss for the average user? (Ex: My parents do not even know Profile Manager is…
> Am I interpreting this correctly? Not quite. In the normal case, users will never see any difference as a result of this change. Most users will experience it, semantically, as "profile per channel," separating normal Firefox from Firefox Nightly, etc. And if you only use stable Firefox, you only have one profile. That means that upgrading from Firefox n to Firefox n+1 is totally fine and it will continue to use th…
> Sharing a profile between different versions of Firefox [...]
I was thinking different version numbers of the same Firefox installation (stable channel).
Profile-per-channel makes it much more clear, and makes sense.
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It's frustrating to me that browsers lend themselves so willingly to being fingerprinted, and it's up to the user to stay aware of and keep ahead of these new avenues. I wish there were 4 modes: - Standard/light mode - Dark mode (website has facilities to test for this and style accordingly) - Dark mode with fake or unknown values advertised to the website - Dark mode with a user-custom filter applied (like below) th…
It's frustrating that we've come to a point where websites can track users by knowing how they set up their browser to render pages. Such information should have no way nor reason to ever be transmitted back from the client to the server in the first place.
ISTR (late 1990's?) reading about fingerprinting attacks that didn't require script or even CSS. Subtle changes in font size and attributes (bold, italic) may affect the order in which page elements are requested by the browser.
Even if you wanted to, there's simply no reliable way to isolate data about client rendering from any other data exchanged with the server. Even if you did a heroic rearchitecture of the DOM and rendering system, there are still static IP addresses and cookies.
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I've even found some in 5k, although they don't play back hardly at all. Performance not there yet.
That should be markedly better in Firefox 67, since we've just now switched to dav1d, a much more efficient decoder by the VideoLAN folks. Prior to that, we were using the reference implementation from libaom.
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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.
I regularly get migraines, where "bright" lights are searingly painful to look at. When the symptoms aren't too bad, dark themes on a text editor are okay, but light themes are not. Migraines aren't an uncommon problem. I think that is a fairly objective reason driving the preference.
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As someone who codes dark mode first thanks for the lazy “OMG, my eyes...” mode ;-)
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…
Is there a reason why I should switch to Firefox if I already trust Google to act in good faith?
Firefox 67 should be the first version to fix permissions request spam: where tons of websites request your location (common enough that it's become a meme) or for permission to send you notifications. Before Firefox 67, if you choose to hide these notifications by default, there's no way to change this later for individual sites without (a) knowing the site needs this information, and (b) going to Firefox's preferen…
If this setting exists and I'm missing it, someone please tell me.
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As someone who codes dark mode first thanks for the lazy “OMG, my eyes...” mode ;-)
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…
On at least two cheap laptops I have used recently, the display driver steps down the overall display brightness when large regions of the screen are dark.
Windows 10 on an HP Stream 11, Intel integrated graphics and Intel display driver.
I can turn down the manual brightness to its minimal setting.
When large windows with white backgrounds are on screen, the backlight brightness increases. Decreases again when the windows are off screen or closed.
This does not change the manual brightness setting.
I have yet to find a tweak to disable this.
Firefox 67 should be the first version to fix permissions request spam: where tons of websites request your location (common enough that it's become a meme) or for permission to send you notifications. Before Firefox 67, if you choose to hide these notifications by default, there's no way to change this later for individual sites without (a) knowing the site needs this information, and (b) going to Firefox's preferen…
I'd like a way to manually enable a plug-in for a specific site. I have sites that won't request flash that require it, and it's a pain to turn flash to allow all to view the site and then turn it back off. If this setting exists and I'm missing it, someone please tell me.
I'm assuming this setting still works, but I kind of doubt there are too many people who install and test it these days. I don't think I've encountered a site that requires flash in years.