Firefox 76 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 76

#271

Post by Scaevus » Thu, May 07, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

CameronNemo wrote: post #2

>Firefox now supports Audio Worklets that will allow more complex audio processing like VR and gaming on the web; and is being adopted by some of your favorite software programs. > With this change, you can now join Zoom calls on Firefox without the need for any additional downloads.

On my Windows setup running on Bootcamp, the previous versions of Firefox had trouble accessing the microphone for many of the video call providers while Edge and Chrome are working fine.

I guess it's time to boot it up and check.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by carapace » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

carapace wrote: post #229

jhymn wrote: post #45

Whenever I start up Firefox it tells me to wait a few moments while it updates. The browser obviously doesn't care about me. It has its own agenda. This is why I won't use it.

Ah that happens to me too every once in awhile and it's absolutely infuriating every time. Classic UI fail. It wouldn't be so bad if it just asked for permission first.

It happened today! I just tried to open a new tab to look something up but the page comes up with this:

> Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep going.

> Firefox has just been updated in the background. Click Restart Firefox to complete the update.

> We will restore all your pages, windows and tabs afterwards, so you can be on your way quickly.

I was in the middle of something. I had a thought, a question occurred, and I wanted to look something up on the Internet real quick. So I hit ctrl-t for a new tab. But that isn't the "new tab" command right now. Firefox has entered into an invisible quasi-mode that remaps ctrl-t to "restart firefox". But not quite. It actually remaps to a command that locks firefox like a grab: it's unusable, it refuses to load and display any more pages until I click that "Restart Firefox" button.

Interrupting my flow by remapping keyboard shortcuts to non-dismiss-able modal dialog with one button ("Click here and only here you idiot monkey" is what that says to me) is super-arrogant. It's patronizing and disrespectful. Saying "sorry" before you shove me doesn't make it any better, it just sounds obsequious.

I switched to Vivaldi yesterday. (The opening-a-tab thing today that I'm currently bitching about was to find something in my old history in FF.) I don't actually like it any better but it hasn't spat in my face so far.

Re: Firefox 76

#273

Post by carapace » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #57

jhymn wrote: post #45

Whenever I start up Firefox it tells me to wait a few moments while it updates. The browser obviously doesn't care about me. It has its own agenda. This is why I won't use it.

Have you heard of "Check for updates but let me choose when to install them" option under about:preferences > Firefox Updates? I assume you did not.

Why not put that on the nag screen?

Re: Firefox 76

#274

Post by skykooler » Thu, May 07, 2020, 4:51 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #267

skykooler wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm that uBlock Origin blocks the notification dropdown on Firefox. Does the dropdown get served by the ads server?

Ah hah! Figured it out: some cosmetic filter is killing the dropdowns. Unfortunately the effecting rule is not discernable in the dev tools, so figuring out which rule is at fault is tricky and slow. Found which one, too: it was a rule of my own that I added almost a year ago to kill off some of the annoying cards they pop up at the ends of many videos, which hide the video content; turns out my rule was just a touch…

Aha! In my case it was a filter I added to block the "Upgrade to YouTube Red" banner that kept coming up even after I clicked "No thanks".