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Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by asimovDev »

nemomarx wrote: post #34
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)

Like running the llm part on their servers, or as a proxy for other reasons?

I meant as a proxy. I saw the Mozilla.org in the preview and my mind immediately jumped to the DDG proxy thing

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by mnmalst »

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…

You mean more verbose than the landing page or the release notes which are also linked in the landing page: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/142.0.1/releasenotes/ ? This is a point release, even more changes are linked at the bottom of the release notes page.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by esnard »

thegabriele wrote: post #40

I'm on FF 142.0.1 (64 bit) windows and i've no link preview. I think it's a good news they're introducing some paid features for pro users

> This feature is available in English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and is being introduced gradually to ensure great performance and quality.

Not available in Italy yet.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by elric »

wkat4242 wrote: post #6

That link preview bothers me a bit from a privacy standpoint. Hovering over a link will now hit that website. Hmm.

Their heading a bit misleading: "See what's behind the link before you click." really should have said "see what's behind the link after you click but before you release the button".

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by Anthony-G »

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…

I’ve had similar issues running the latest Firefox (currently 142 as per this discussion) on the latest Fedora (42). I used to be able to lock the screen and go home but I’ve recently had a couple of mornings where I’d come into work and find my system unresponsive. I use the Magic SysRq command to trigger the OOM (out-of-memory) killer as many times as required to free up enough resources that I could log in on a virtual console (Alt-Ctrl-F2). This would allow me to manually kill Firefox, freeing up about 15GB of RAM and all 16GB of the swap file.

I’ve been too busy with work to spend any time investigating the cause. At first I had been blaming the `teams-for-linux` electron app but figured that wasn’t the culprit because I close it every evening. In Firefox, `about:processes` is useful while actually using the application but I’m not really sure how best to diagnose what’s happening after the fact.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by NoboruWataya »

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 agree, I'm generally sceptical of new AI "features" in the browser and will be turning most of them off. But the translation feature (which has been in Firefox for a while now) is great. The difference is that translation in a browser is something that is clearly useful and has always been AI-based to an extent, so shipping with a local model for translation is a strict improvement (leaving aside any difference in translation quality, which I have not noticed). The other AI features are not obviously useful IMO.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by filenox »

esnard wrote: post #43
thegabriele wrote: post #40

I'm on FF 142.0.1 (64 bit) windows and i've no link preview. I think it's a good news they're introducing some paid features for pro users

> This feature is available in English for users in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and is being introduced gradually to ensure great performance and quality. Not available in Italy yet.

You can enable it by setting 'browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled' to true via about:config. A restart of Firefox is required.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by Vinnl »

keepamovin wrote: post #37
someone4874726 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's an AI-generated hand, probably.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by logicprog »

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.

Yeah! I have it on my phone and its legitimately super helpful; especially since I go to a lot of obscure websites and personal blogs!
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