I use Firefox's password manager, and their new LockWise extension gives a fresh breath to password management. Nice work!
Firefox 67.0 Released
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> 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.
It can be turned off in the BIOS (a change I made about 15 minutes after getting my XPS13, which I otherwise love).
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#243Still no improvement on macOS. Don't know why don't they make it a priority as I have to use Chrome (Safari is missing some stuff that I need).
Ha, it's becoming my routine now whenever Firefox is announced on HN to search for "mac" in the comments. Waiting for that day when someone finally says something different. I really want to stop using Chrome, but unfortunately Firefox just doesn't work as well.
I'm the same but using Vivaldi while I wait...
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There is nothing deceptive about LED backlit LCDs, they are an important upgrade over CFL backlit LCDs.
I've seen a fair few TVs with LED backlit screens, advertised as LED displays. Which what I think was meant by "deceptively labeled"
It's a display and it "has LED". Given a clean slate language reboot for today's technology we would probably reserve the term "LED display" to "LED per subpixel" models and call LED LCDs "LED backlit", but the term got into widespread use when the backlit kind was the only one available so that's where we are now.
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#245> "Suspending unused tabs" I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.
> I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. It's in the config parameter's name: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory. Boolean, works only on Windows for now.
Any idea when Linux will be supported?
I'm using the Auto Tab Discard extension for now, but having a native way to handle this for Linux users would be great.
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Actually traditional tft displays need to apply a current to turn a pixel black, so if you don't use adaptive brightness that would dim the backlight if the display is mostly black, you actually consume more power with a black theme. I have a low power Pentium notebook with 15" led backlit screen and the difference between a terminal with black or white background is significant.
> I have a low power Pentium notebook with 15" led backlit screen and the difference between a terminal with black or white background is significant. How significant? Turn the screen black, and show the remaining battery time estimate. Turn it white, do the same. I'm curious.
Battery at 74%. Sitting at black screen for about a minute, the highest estimate I got was 4:50, lowest 4:05. It was mostly showing numbers close to either of these, almost never something in between.
Switching to white I got 5:40 and 4:50 showing pretty much the same behavior.
It's an HP pavilion 15-p005ng with a Pentium N3530. Terrible machine btw. Linux freezes in irregular intervals, almost immediately with OpenGL stuff...
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This is an anti-feature. Firefox enabled a deprecated standard because Google couldn't be bothered to move to the current standard. Classic catering to the big players.
They held off for a very long time, and I'm glad they did that. I'm also glad they switched, because the alternative is that either you don't use the most effective security option available or you stop using Firefox, both of which seem like even bigger long-term problems.
A case of “Too big to fail”? Stop using Google wasn’t even mentioned as an alternative!
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Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case? Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode? [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I tried it out, but it was much more structured than I'd like. I don't really want to have pre-defined a bunch of containers for each site that I want compartmentalized. I really like the ephemeral nature of private browsing where a single click gives me a fresh new container that I can use for whatever I want. Plus, when giving recommendations to family members, private browsing is more user-facing feature, and easi…
As an alternative, there is the “containers on the go” add-on, which will let you easily (optionally) open new tabs in ephemeral containers.
Re: Firefox 67.0 Released
#249Still no improvement on macOS. Don't know why don't they make it a priority as I have to use Chrome (Safari is missing some stuff that I need).
What do you mean “no improvement on macOS”? Most of the new features listed in these release notes could be considered improvements, and I assume that the macOS version of Firefox 67 has all those features, the same as on other platforms.
I think you had in mind a specific aspect of Firefox that you wished would be improved, but you forgot to explain what that feature was. What is the missing feature that leads you to use Chrome?
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#250Is there a reason why I should switch to Firefox if I already trust Google to act in good faith?
Only Firefox supports extensions that provide an alternative interface to the tab bar. Alternative interfaces such as vertical tabs or tree tabs are very useful if you have many tabs open in a single window. Examples of these extensions:
• Tab Center Reborn – https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/tabcenter-reborn...
• Tree Style Tab – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
• Tree Tabs – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/