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Firefox 69.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by thekyle »

kn0where wrote: post #196
gourlaysama wrote: post #172

> With the deprecation of Adobe Flash Player, there is no longer a need to identify users on 32-bit version of the Firefox browser on 64-bit version operating systems[, ]reducing user agent fingerprinting factors. Good. User agents already contain too much. That's actually the first time I've ever seen a browser actively removing stuff from the User Agent.

I believe Safari stopped increasing the browser version in the user agent some time ago.

So what does it do now? Is it just an older version number or did they remove the number altogether.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by pseudalopex »

cambalache wrote: post #199
pseudalopex wrote: post #150

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Mozilla killed a private Reading List feature and replaced it with Pocket. They carefully denied getting paid for the integration before eventually revealing that they got paid for new subscriptions. They promised to open source Pocket when they acquired it and still haven't. What Mozilla calls "the best of Pocket's content" is ads and articles that border on clickbait. Some people don't like marketing doublespeak.

Genuine question,so which option do you recommend for linux/windows

You can turn off the ads and clickbait. I still like Firefox more than other browsers. I still trust Mozilla more than other companies. I just think people have legitimate complaints.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by la_barba »

Const-me wrote: post #131
la_barba wrote: post #101

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Does anyone know the technical reason that the OS can't handle that itself?

Not using OSX, but I have some ideas. An app tells an OS it gonna use OpenGL to 3D render stuff. Generally, the OS doesn’t know whether it’s a competitive 3D shooter where each FPS really matters, or a web browser which only uses OpenGL to render a few textured quads. If the OS will default to slower integrated GPU, users will be unhappy, they want 3D performance. So the OSes typically power up the faster GPU in such…

I guess I was thinking of this from a heterogeneous architecture standpoint (e.g. big.LITTLE) . You have differently-capable compute resources, and you need to pick the one thats best suited for the work-load. Rather than the app talking directly to the hardware, I suppose the OS should let the app pick its work-load type, similar to letting it choose a process scheduling priority.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by tasty_freeze »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #130
tasty_freeze wrote: post #96

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Fantastic news for people, like me, who spend a lot of time with $10/GB hotspot data prices. I'd click a link to a 5KB news article only to find it streaming HD video of talking heads reading the article.

> 5KB news article On what site do you find "5KB news articles"? Pretty much all news sites that I know of load a gigantic amount of useless and obnoxious JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. with or without video.

I haven't looked at the actual data, but if I go to cnn.com, which I visit routinely enough, I imagine most of the assets are already cached. The ads and embedded video, though, are a bandwidth sink.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by FillardMillmore »

welly wrote: post #173
marrone12 wrote: post #169

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I like the Pocket recommendations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You and me both! I've had some great recommendations!

A lot of the recommendations are great. But there's also some ones recommending low-interest credit cards. I also like Pocket as software. Easily allows me to save pages for later reading and tag them as a method to introduce some organization to all the interesting pages one finds. Since I use Firefox across many devices, this makes my life easier.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by ferzul »

goatlover wrote: post #138
AbsoluteDestiny wrote: post #114

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Video codecs compress better than GIFs, so auto playing video elements can be used for this.

But why does a news article need video?

when you're tired after work, watching a video is easier than reading. the longer you're watching videos on top-quality-journalism.example.com the longer they can serve you ads

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by ferzul »

tjoff wrote: post #165
hota_mazi wrote: post #161

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> Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throats so much, what's wrong with playing at any time when you want? Probably so they can show advertisers that every month, they stream XXX terabytes of video, thereby getting these advertisers to pay them more money. Not technically a lie as long as you don't pretend people are actually watching these videos.

The fascinating part is how advertisers fall for that every time. How can this still be a problem?

if everyone does it, maybe it becomes a useful metric of how many user-hours you get?

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by ferzul »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #208
suby wrote: post #201

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I'd be fine if they limited it to just unpaid recommendations, but they include sponsored pocket stories in the new page tab too. It's inserting advertising into the web browser in a round-about way.

Good thing you can turn it off? If you're not paying Mozilla for their browser, it seems weird to me to bitch and complain about ways Mozilla explores to generate some revenue without selling out their user's privacy. Especially when they make it very easy to opt out of the thing you don't like. Comments like yours are what makes me very nervous about the future for Mozilla. They are still entirely at the mercy of Go…

where's the button that gives me the paid version, and is it just a donation or a version that gives me a better, ahem, experience?
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