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Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by lostmsu »

alanh wrote: post #182
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

Psst: Night Eye is a browser extension that has really, deeply impressed me by managing to give almost every website and web app a good-enough 'night mode,' surpassing all the quick-hack filter() solutions and more common extensions like Darken. https://nighteye.app/

I am using Dark Reader extension. It is available for both Firefox and Chrome. Has advanced settings, like grayscale, contrast, etc.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by jamienicol »

ncmncm wrote: post #18
hd4 wrote: post #13

>WebRender is gradually enabled by default on Windows 10 desktops with NVIDIA graphics cards Does this mean Webrender in Stable can now be force-enabled for non-Nvidia graphics cards on Windows 10? The language is a little unclear. AFAIK Webrender is available to anyone using Nightly by force enabling it.

It would be better if they offered a way to really turn it off. Firefox has got very crashy in environments that have no access to a GPU.

gfx.webrender.force-disabled=true should do the trick.

Though we shouldn't be attempting to switch it on without a GPU, if you could file a bug that would be great.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by zimmi »

watersb wrote: post #229
sdsdsdsds wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Why not simply lower your screen brightness ? 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…

If I remember correctly, this can be toggled off in Power Options.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by bengerbil »

radcon wrote: post #65

I can't find much info on the fingerprint protection. Has anyone tested it thoroughly? Do we know if it's effective against current fingerprinting methods? Can we actually rely on it, or will it simply be a matter of days/weeks before websites adapt to defeat this protection?

My favourite side-effect of fingerprinting protection is that local timezone is hidden, so that web consoles at work run in the one true timezone.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by markdog12 »

callahad wrote: post #184
markdog12 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm on FF nightly, dav1d enabled.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by bscphil »

bscphil wrote: post #212

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…

Additional information: I've found that it requires the following key in about:config to be set to true.

    permissions.desktop-notification.postPrompt.enabled
A good site for testing this (requires javascript): https://www.bennish.net/web-notifications.html

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by abrowne »

watersb wrote: post #229
sdsdsdsds wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Why not simply lower your screen brightness ? 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…

At least some Dell XPS 13 have this. IIRC it's feature of the LCD panel itself.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by phillc73 »

judge2020 wrote: post #186
phillc73 wrote: post #48

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> about:config security.webauth.u2f I still have this set to Value: "false" in Firefox 66.0.5 and it's working fine for Google Accounts. Edit: I'm pretty sure I registered by Nitrokeys with Google back in 2017 using Chrome, so I'm just referring to signing in with them.

You could always sign in with any key, you just could only register keys via Chrome.

I seem to recall U2F sign-in always failing with Firefox for a long time. I remember having to switch to Chrome for U2F and frankly ended up using a different 2FA method for a couple of years because of that.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by arthurfm »

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.

> a black LED pixel consumes no energy

At last years Android Dev Summit, Google provided some interesting stats on how much power dark mode saves.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18076502/google-dark-mode...

[2] https://youtu.be/N_6sPd0Jd3g

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