https://i.imgur.com/mzmsdzt.png
They added this to my home page, despite the fact that my default search provider is DDG.
Mozilla, could you STOP bundling advertisements into my browser?
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
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#42Whenever Firefox is automatically updated through my package manager, any open instances refuse to load any new pages or tabs until I restart Firefox . Needless to say, this is absolutely infuriating when I'm in the middle of something important. Does anyone know how to disable this feature?
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#43So what's the list of browsers now that have autoplaying blocked or have that feature planned?
Generally this is good.
But I wonder, lets say you want to allow autoplay on Netflix. Do you need to enable it on all subdomains and CDNs - that could be tedious. (I don't know if Netflix has subdomains, CDN, just an example)
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#44https://i.imgur.com/mzmsdzt.png They added this to my home page, despite the fact that my default search provider is DDG. Mozilla, could you STOP bundling advertisements into my browser?
To be fair, that's their entire business model outside of donations.
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#46> Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page That's a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It's a little annoyance that you don't really consciously notice because you're so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you're reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to…
Wouldn't it be nice if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it's not loaded? Like "this is going to be a 500x200 image so let's load 500x200 pixels worth of empty space until it's fully loaded" and avoid jumping.
If the browser only knew...but in many cases it doesn't, especially for a fluid width, responsive website. An image may have a near infinite number of potential dimensions depending on the user's viewport.
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#47Does anyone else have the problem that firefox denies acces to `navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition` even if the user clicks "allow"?
I hoped it was fixed in the release but seems to be not the case.
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#48This bit is also somewhat surprising/interesting:
> Improved performance and reduced crash rates by [doubling web content loading processes from 4 to 8 [1]
From personal experience, I believe that things usually get more buggy, not less, as you add more parallelism/concurrency. I think there's supposed to be a link to more explanation or the relevant ticket, but it looks like they forgot to actually add the link. Can somebody fill it in here?
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#49This bit is also somewhat surprising/interesting: > Improved performance and reduced crash rates by [doubling web content loading processes from 4 to 8 [1] From personal experience, I believe that things usually get more buggy, not less, as you add more parallelism/concurrency. I think there's supposed to be a link to more explanation or the relevant ticket, but it looks like they forgot to actually add the link. Can…
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Silly question... what do you do with Firefox and the touch bar?
Actually, mine was a silly comment. What I use is the force touch, which now also works, not the touch bar. Apologies for the mistake.
I won't be surprised if at some point we'll have Force Touch Bar.