Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

What's New with Firefox 142

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 139 posts

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#31

Post by someone4874726 »

deanc wrote: post #26

I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list. I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their…

Have been using FireFox Relay for a couple of years now and can coun't the amount of sites which have denied my signup on a single hand.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#32

Post by Shank »

Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining features.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#35

Post by gucci-on-fleek »

diggan wrote: post #19
gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still ambivalent on the rest of the AI features, but the AI translation is absolutely amazing . The translation quality isn't perfect, but being able to seamlessly translate 20+ languages 100% locally is amazing.

Agree, for us switching between languages all the time, with some of those languages being less known to us, it's a great tool! My only wish was that I can force it to always allow me to try translating things, even if it doesn't identify it as some specific language. Sometimes what I want to translate is like 30% one language and 70% another language, and I still want to translate it to another language, but since t…

> My only wish was that I can force it to always allow me to try translating things, even if it doesn't identify it as some specific language.

You can, but it's somewhat hidden. Open the hamburger menu in the top right, then select “Translate page…”.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#36

Post by Vinnl »

asimovDev wrote: post #33

Anyone else was under a naive impression that the preview would go through the Mozilla servers? something like DuckDuckGo has(had? haven't used it for a while)

Just to be explicit: it doesn't go through any server, all processing happens on your device.

Edit: ah, just saw the clarification. So the content is not sent anywhere to create the summary, but you do visit the original site, just like you would have if you had done a regular click.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#37

Post by keepamovin »

someone4874726 wrote: post #31
deanc wrote: post #26

I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list. I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their…

Have been using FireFox Relay for a couple of years now and can coun't the amount of sites which have denied my signup on a single hand.

How many fingers do you have - on that hand?

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#38

Post by sorenjan »

gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #3
logicprog wrote: post #2

I really like those local AI features. It's tempting me yo move to vanilla Firefox over LibreWolf...

I'm still ambivalent on the rest of the AI features, but the AI translation is absolutely amazing . The translation quality isn't perfect, but being able to seamlessly translate 20+ languages 100% locally is amazing.

I can't get it to always translate a page, it keeps asking me every time I visit.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

#39

Post by throwaway48476 »

Shank wrote: post #32

Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining fe…

Try about:processes and take a snapshot.
Post reply on HN