I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you're thinking about contributing for the first time.
We love contributors :)
Firefox 25 is released
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Re: Firefox 25 is released
#42It will hang like previous versions ? Unhappy with the performance so i shift to chrome.
I don't understand how you can be unhappy about the performance of the few last versions of Firefox. It is now quite savy in memory (especially in comparison with Chrome) and handles everything I throw at it without noticeable janks.
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#43I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary. The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it…
Super annoying, yes! I completely agree with you. It's not just Firefox being the culprit here though... .NET is the same, and so is Chrome, and the list can grow like a mayor's coat-tails! Also, here's a genuine usecase for a truly offline installer... What if you are the "resident software/pc maintainer" of your extended family.... In such a case, would it not make better sense to have one complete download, then c…
Each of the 3 systems you mention have reliable update mechanisms and a track record of not really breaking things on updates.
Especially for consumer PCs, there doesn't need to be anything to keep up with.
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#44I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary. The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it…
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#45I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary. The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it…
For example, let's say you want to load it up in a VM You've just excluded >95% of Firefox users. Those that do use a VM will know how to get hold of the full installer. If they'd stop making full installs, I would be annoyed. But they're just optimising for the most common use cases.
I know. I know. Believe me, I know. That detail is not lost on me.
My complaint is simply that it's hard to find, and for those who want it, there's no real road map or sign postings for where to get it.
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or XP (no media framework api) But youtube encodes popular videos into the native firefox formats.
It's never going to happen on XP.
Depends on whether XP outlasts the H.264 patents (currently 2028 but they like to keep adding new patents to these pools to extend the time they have lock in for).
So I'd say it's 50/50.
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#47Still not input range support?
laaaaaame
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#48I know a guy who still runs FF3. It's really incredible how fast Mozilla can push out new releases now!
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Development isn't stagnant. They have releases on a 6-week schedule now, that's why each update is smaller. Because of the more frequent releases, features get released as soon as they're ready instead of waiting months or years for a "major release" like they used to.
I did not suggest the size of any given update, or the schedule they are released at was evidence of stagnation. The fact that firefox is the problem browser now instead of IE is what I pointed to. It is nearly 2014. Firefox still doesn't have html 5 form elements even. Remember making internal use sites and telling people "we're not supporting IE, use firefox"? Now we're doing "we're not supporting firefox, use chro…
This.... is so not true I don't even know what to say.
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#50The ES6 bits makes me all smiley: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=717379%... I wish Chrome would start adding them, then I could start using them for personal/particularly nerdy projects.
I guess you’ve seen kangax’s charts, but he does a good job of tracking progress: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/ Firefox 26 will introduce Array.of, Math.fround, Generators and Structs.
That seems to be coming along nicely but it looks like almost nothing made it into IE11 - so doesn't that mean we missed the boat for a few more years? I want to use this stuff so badly already. Gah.