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Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by stjohnswarts »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #96
Aardwolf wrote: post #54

> The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound. Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it! Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throat…

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.

unless you turn off images, sound and video and probably javascript, I'm afraid you're gonna have a bad time with that "5kb" news article.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by driverdan »

Aardwolf wrote: post #82

> For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. With all due respect, if you have to call it an "experience" you know it's something nobody asked for :p

I agree. I've been a Pocket user for years longer than Mozilla has owned them. The New Tab page should not be making any external requests. If I want to see Pocket content I'll look at Pocket.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by seppel »

hutattedonmyarm wrote: post #66
denzil_correa wrote: post #20

> macOS users on dual-graphics-card machines (like MacBook Pro) will switch back to the low-power GPU more aggressively, saving battery life. macOS user base can now consider FF as a viable browser alternative.

My MBP doesn’t have a dedicated card and yet firefox manages to eat my battery as a snack

For me (MBP from early 2015 w/o dedicated card) the upcoming FF 70 made a huge difference. I installed the beta today and I finally can go to youtube, facebook and reddit (the new design!) without the fan spinning up.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by mikekchar »

xvector wrote: post #261
CommieBobDole wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We may never be free of it; it's gone on long enough that there's a whole generation that's grown up thinking it's normal to get information by watching a five minute video that conveys the same information as five lines of text.

People that choose 5-minute videos over 5 lines of text probably aren't doing it because they can't do the latter. They do the former to fill time. Popcorn for the brain, if you're bored.

I often wonder, why are people so bored? I'm fighting off doing my typical "old man rant" but I often hear people dream of a life where they have no responsibilities, but then I notice that most people fill their time with fluff -- because they are bored. I do it myself, even!

Fun fact: I'm on HN posting this post, not because this is what I want to do, but because it was the easiest thing I could think of starting to do after I finished up some work. If only it were easier to aim at stuff that I actually want to do... Hmmm...

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by nitemice »

keithnz wrote: post #262

Just out of interest, how many people run the "release" version of Firefox? I'm currently using Firefox Developer on the latest auroua update channel version ( 70.0b3 ). I haven't really expereienced any problems and am only vaugely aware of new things from time to time. Actually mostly I'm not sure if I'm noticing something new or something that's existed for a long time. Like for instance the other day I put in an…

I have been using Firefox Developer for about 6 months, but after two incidents of week-long bugs that caused my browser to crash after a variable number of minutes, no matter what I had open, I've decided to swap back to the release version.

Yeah, you get a few cool features a bit early, but I just can't stand the instability anymore. Pluis, I'm not actually using any of the "Developer" features, so there's really no reason for me to not just run release.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by joveian »

muizelaar wrote: post #146
plopz wrote: post #7

> Firefox no longer loads userChrome.css or userContent.css by default improving start-up performance. Users who wish to customize Firefox by using these files can set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability. How much of a performance improvement does this make?

Here's the bug about making it dependent on a pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233 Even just checking for the existence of a file can take a really long time depending on the disk speed and other on going IO.

Checking for the existence of the files could take time since they are in a different directory, but checking for the existence of the chrome directory (which doesn't seem to be used for anything else) should not require disk access since the directory contents are already cached due to accessing other files in that directory. One person mentioned checking for the directory in the bug report but the answer made it sound like they actually checked the speed of testing for the existence of the files in an empty directory rather than checking for the existence of the directory.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by _coveredInBees »

ferzul wrote: post #240
_coveredInBees wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Haha, if Mozilla ever hid a "better" experience browser behind a paywall I bet you would be here excoriating them for that move. The general feeling of entitlement that some people in the open source side of things have is quite astounding. They want everything possible, but absolutely for free and then justify how absurd it all is by saying people will pay in droves if only Mozilla made this magical, perfect, privacy-first browser. It's just tragic and I feel so bad for Mozilla in general given the total apathy that most technical minded people have towards their plight and long term financial sustainability.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Aardwolf wrote: post #54

> The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound. Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it! Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throat…

That's going to break textural videos too, isn't it? :(

Kind of silly that animated gifs will continue to work fine, but as soon as you try to use a format that doesn't take up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth...

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by m712 »

The good: ETP by default, battery life improvements, flash deprecation (finally!), about:debugging, event breakppints (finally! #2)

The bad: userChrome/userContent not being loaded by default, I don't understand why it would cause a delay at startup.

The ugly: More Pocket crap.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

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Post by jen729w »

mikekchar wrote: post #284
xvector wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People that choose 5-minute videos over 5 lines of text probably aren't doing it because they can't do the latter. They do the former to fill time. Popcorn for the brain, if you're bored.

I often wonder, why are people so bored? I'm fighting off doing my typical "old man rant" but I often hear people dream of a life where they have no responsibilities, but then I notice that most people fill their time with fluff -- because they are bored. I do it myself, even! Fun fact: I'm on HN posting this post, not because this is what I want to do, but because it was the easiest thing I could think of starting t…

Cal Newport's latest book Digital Minimalism has some tips, but none of them are quick-fixes.

"Get a challenging hobby" is basically the idea. Which is a great idea! I just have to, y'know, do it...

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