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Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Waterluvian »

tux3 wrote: post #28
spatulon wrote: post #9

I'd love to hear if they made any progress in tracking down the 'interesting WebRender bug' from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359574

I think it's tracked under https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604492 It's still open, but it seems people haven't been able to hit the bug on the last few nightlies (this is also my experience), so it's possible the bug was quietly fixed as a side effect of some other patch.

Programming can be so easy: "Oh hey, it fixed itself!"

Programming can be so hard: "So then what was the bug?"

Re: Firefox 74

#32

Post by fdghfg »

does it still come with google tracking on the welcome screen and a ton of unapproved communication to mozilla servers?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by frankjr »

spatulon wrote: post #9

I'd love to hear if they made any progress in tracking down the 'interesting WebRender bug' from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359574

They have, it's suspected to be caused by a race condition with memory pressure events [0][1]. It looks like the patch is not included in Firefox 74 though.

[0] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/moz-gfx-newslett...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617083

Re: Firefox 74

#34

Post by Waterluvian »

It says a lot that there's a new feature bullet for Facebook alone. I wonder if at some point Firefox is going to be so effective at hampering FB's goals that FB decides it needs to be crushed

Re: Firefox 74

#35

Post by petargyurov »

Waterluvian wrote: post #31
tux3 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's tracked under https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604492 It's still open, but it seems people haven't been able to hit the bug on the last few nightlies (this is also my experience), so it's possible the bug was quietly fixed as a side effect of some other patch.

Programming can be so easy: "Oh hey, it fixed itself!" Programming can be so hard: "So then what was the bug?"

Something something Schrodinger's Bug...

Re: Firefox 74

#36

Post by skrowl »

stavros wrote: post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

With the base multi account container extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... you can right click in any page and have it remember the container for that domain. For example you open abc.com in container "Personal" once, then you can tell it do remember to use that container whenever you go to abc.com.

The Conex extension https://github.com/kesselborn/conex goes beyond by (optionally) prompting you for which container you want. The best part of this extension is that it lets you hide tabs that aren't in the same container, effectively giving you tab groups based on container. Once you get used to it, you won't want to go back to having 80 tabs displayed at once.

In addition

Re: Firefox 74

#37

Post by Semaphor »

dcarmo wrote: post #27

I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.

Multi-account works great with containers, far superior to chrome.

What you mean is probably multi-profile. I have never used that with chrome, but with FF I can go to about:profiles to open a new one or (according to a quick search) have a shortcut to the profile switcher or to a specific profile. What does Chrome do better?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by jmkni »

Avi-D-coder wrote: post #8

Switched to Firefox nightly and preview recently; it's great once you enable webrender and mess with a few other about:config options. Lockwise on Android is the only issue, it doesn't always suggest my saved passwords.

Which about:config options specifically would you recommend?

Re: Firefox 74

#39

Post by _khhm »

dcarmo wrote: post #27

I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.

Obligatory "Firefox on iOS isn't really Firefox, as iOS App Store rules ban browser engines" reply. ALL iOS browsers are basically just skins on top of Safari's WebKit.

See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by comboy »

stavros wrote: post #14

The Facebook container is great, but I wish there was an option for the built-in Multi-Account containers to work this way. I've been doing what the Facebook Container extension does, but with built-in containers, and the experience is very clunky. The two biggest issues are that I can't give the container a list of domains beforehand and say "everything under google.com should open here". I have to go to each Google…

I use FF, I don't use FB, but I still think this is wrong. Browser is not a place to decide which companies are good and which are bad. As much as I despise Facebook I still don't think it's fair.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". All companies should have the same access to the technology in user's browser. Favoring Google by Chrome seems no different than blocking Facebook by Firefox. It's the same behavior, just a difference in opinions.

edit: to clarify, I am in agreement with the parent comment, the above is just about Facebook container being a feature

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