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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by baby »

dwaite wrote: post #236
pmontra wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube music video running in another tab. Should it stop render the video and keep playing the audio? Maybe feasible but it should keep receiving both the video and audio data. Stop all of it? Not what I wish to happen.

The javascript engine and rendering engines are what are generally affected by being backgrounded. So yes, generally the media library will continue receiving the combined video/audio stream and not bother rendering the video frames

What about a timer running in a different tab?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by thenewnewguy »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #261

What about DNS over HTTP? Do I still have to use Nightly for that?

Settings -> Click "Settings" under network settings (bottom of "General" section) -> Check "Enable DNS over HTTPS" -> Change provider (if you want a different one).

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by acqq »

BuckRogers wrote: post #166
freediver wrote: post #111

I am not a Firefox user but know that matching Webkit performance on macOS is going to be very hard. So just fired a test on my Macbook Air - Safari 13 vs Firefox 70. Opened top 10 links from techmeme. Both windows in background. Firefox 70: Energy use 30-200; CPU 20-25%; Threads 82 Safari 13: Energy use 0.1-5; CPU 2-5%; Threads 11 If this is to celebrate I can only imagine what the things looked like before this rel…

On Windows I've been testing the new MS Edge because I've noticed my laptop has significantly higher CPU usage running FF. The reduced battery life is one thing, a hot laptop is another. Currently the new Edge is not as well optimized as the original, but there's more to come on that front. I've been using FF since it was in beta, never left but I'm starting to come around to the reality that native browsers are best…

Yes, I also observe much more power drawn even on a single page (especially if it contains animations) opened in Firefox vs any other browser, and on Windows, IE is significantly less power hungry.

I've also checked this newest version, 70 on Windows and my measurement of the power use give practically identical results to the measurements I've done almost two years ago.

I see that the power drain comes from the browser's own code doing something unnecessary and as far as I see it doesn't even appear to platform dependent.

It's surely possible to optimize that and it's obviously not their priority.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by jamiek88 »

mch82 wrote: post #114
pwlb wrote: post #60

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Firefox Sync let's you syncronize Bookmarks, Open tabs, Logins, History, Add-ons and Preferences across devices by logging in once with username password

Here’s the Sync security FAQ to answer javajosh’s follow up question, which I can’t reply to directly. “How Firefox Sync keeps your data safe even if TLS fails” https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...

If you click on the 'x hours ago' part of the comment next to the username you will get a parent link and can then reply to and save individual comments.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by deogeo »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #271
deogeo wrote: post #234

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> I'd rather things be direct. I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product). You don't have that choice - what happens is you pay and become the product. Cable TV used to be ad-free, since you paid for it, then they figured out they can make more money selling ads. There are ads on the buses and subways, even though you have to pay for tickets. W…

I thought that the cable TV subscription pays for the distribution and ads pay for the channels?

Upon further research, it does look like only a handful of cable-only channels were ever ad-free.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by jamiek88 »

zck wrote: post #277
gwern wrote: post #252

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I think people do; it's popular enough that many people implement it, not just Tufte-CSS, it was one of the first things I added to gwern.net once I saw it demoed, I believe Medium also does it, and no one's complained to me that they really like the overlapping obscuration.

I really like the overlapping underline. Well, really I like the non-broken underline, which happens to overlap with descenders. If the underline indicating a link breaks, it looks like there are two adjacent links. To check if this is the case, I have to mouseover both the link before and after the break, and compare the URLs with my eyes. I find this a much greater annoyance then I do the overlapping underlining.

>If the underline indicating a link breaks, it looks like there are two adjacent links

Ah that's what that is. I've seen a few like that and wondered why there were two identical links next to each other not thinking it was underline style.

I'll save myself the hover now!

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by marcuschristie »

frereubu wrote: post #74
tyre wrote: post #32

> Firefox 70 introduces three new properties related to text decoration/underline: > text-decoration-thickness: sets the thickness of lines added via text-decoration. > text-underline-offset: sets the distance between a text decoration and the text it is set on. Bear in mind that this only works on underlines. > text-decoration-skip-ink: sets whether underlines and overlines are drawn if they cross descenders and asc…

Don't want to rain on your parade, but this is a long way from being generally available: https://caniuse.com/#search=text-decoration-thickness 11% coverage, and almost all of that is iOS Safari.

It's coming to Chromium soon

> We have plans to start implementation work on this before the end of the year.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=785230...

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by lisper »

treve wrote: post #162
lisper wrote: post #141

> In the Firefox UI, you’ll then be able to generate a secure password like so: That's great. But what if I now want to log in to the same site from my iPhone?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-lockwise/id1314000270

Thanks!

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by deaddodo »

saagarjha wrote: post #276
pfranz wrote: post #190

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I just can't imagine Firefox will ever be performant as Safari. One is written for a single platform developed at the same company that develops the hardware and OS (I'm not trying to belittle the Safari team--it's kind of amazing what they do). The other is developed separately, must equally support at least 2 other OSes and has an expectation for supporting older setups. My problem is that Safari won't work for me…

WebKit also works on other platforms.

You're thinking of Blink. WebKit is pretty exclusive to macOS and iOS these days.
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