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"Dark mode in reader view expands so that windows are also dark on the controls, sidebars and toolbars." Thank god.
the blank white page is killer. inbetween page loads a bright flash of white.
I love Firefox. First thing I install on any new computer. Super happy they keep pushing the web forward. Not a fan of the chromium quasi monopoly (not that the folks behind it are bad, just that any monoculture is problematic). Thanks for pushing the web forward!
The whole chromium project gives out the 'death star' vibe for me. I'm sure the engineers who are working on it are good people but the end result seem lead to destruction of open web as we know it by the Gempire.
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Will it also eventually roll out for those with Intel Integrated Graphics?
Eventually… https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479781 You can enable/disable webrender in about:config if you want to try it out (gfx.webrender.all). I've switched to it on my laptop (HD Graphics 620, Gentoo Linux). So far so good.
"Cryptomining and fingerprinting protections are added to strict content blocking settings in Privacy & Security preferences." my first reaction is it's really sad to see this. looks like something Google blackmailed them into adding. maybe Im missing some aspect to this.. but why is mining crypto bad but showing ads is not? I rather mine coins/ether/whatever for the website owners than see more ads moving away from…
Edit: alternatively, you can enable this per-site by clicking the shield icon that appears next to the URL when something has been blocked.
This marks the last Android release with extensions/add-on support. There will not be a 69 release of this edition of Firefox for Android ("Fennec"). The new remake of the mobile browser ("Fenix") does not have extensions support and it is on an indefinite and easily ignorable backlog. It is explicitly not being worked on this quarter. At the end of this quarter is the scheduled release of Firefox 69. Unless there's…
> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.
php -S localhost:8080
"Cryptomining and fingerprinting protections are added to strict content blocking settings in Privacy & Security preferences." my first reaction is it's really sad to see this. looks like something Google blackmailed them into adding. maybe Im missing some aspect to this.. but why is mining crypto bad but showing ads is not? I rather mine coins/ether/whatever for the website owners than see more ads moving away from…
Crypto-mining scripts are mostly silent; if your computer doesn’t have a loud fan to spin up, you’re hardly able to even tell one is running other than on its eventual impact on battery life. As such, they’re a favoured tool of script-kiddies who deface websites. They take over a site, and then drop a crypto-miner onto the site to make themselves money, otherwise leaving everything intact. Sometimes even the site own…
There seems to be a conflict of interest when a browser singles out one of the biggest threats to the online ad industry while being funded by that same industry
(~90% of Mozilla's money is from Google according to Wikipedia)
While we're on the topic, does anyone have a good guide for adding a crypto miner to a simple static website? (like Githubpages)
Instead of opening a new window with the requested profile, it opens a new window of the same profile that's already running.
Launching from about:profiles works.
Is anyone else running into this?
This marks the last Android release with extensions/add-on support. There will not be a 69 release of this edition of Firefox for Android ("Fennec"). The new remake of the mobile browser ("Fenix") does not have extensions support and it is on an indefinite and easily ignorable backlog. It is explicitly not being worked on this quarter. At the end of this quarter is the scheduled release of Firefox 69. Unless there's…
Wait what? Extensions are the biggest reason I'm using Firefox on my mobile and the only way I got people to switch to it. How can they just be removing them for any period of time?
"Dark mode in reader view expands so that windows are also dark on the controls, sidebars and toolbars." Thank god.
(More broadly, I wish Apple would allow things like file dialogs to force to dark mode. I know you can set NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance to NO, but it tends to mess up a bunch of other random stuff too)