Still does not block autoplay on cnn.com, which is my acid test for this. UPDATE: Yes it does, but it's not enabled by default. (?)
Blog said next week, unless you're running dev or nightly
Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
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#532excited to see some of these features in a future waterfox release; things like integrated Pocket are the most major annoyances to me.
You can turn that off, unless it's just the idea that is annoying can't turn that off I guess.
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#534Earlier quoted context omitted.
On 32-bit Windows, processes have maximum address space limitations which can be easily hit by web browsers. Having more content processes makes it less likely that any particular one will hit that limit. Note that content process OOM crashes are the #1 source of crash reports Firefox gets (and you can see plenty of other OOM crashes in that list further down too): https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrashers/?product…
Oh, so you mean that on 32-bit Windows, processes (can) have an address space that is smaller than the sum of physical RAM + page file? I didn't know that. It makes sense then.
On any 32-bit OS, processes have at most 4GB of address space, because that's how much you can address with 32 bits.
In practice some of that is reserved for the kernel, so you get less for use by the process itself. Historically 2GB on Windows, though there were some non-default compilation/linking options you could set to get 3GB.
A 32-bit process running on a 64-bit kernel can get 4GB of address space.
And yes, lots of computers have >4GB physical RAM, even if you don't count swap/page files.
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#535Is there a whitelist though? Because while I dislike an unexpected video autoplaying in a news article, there are sites where I want and expect a video to start without pressing anything, such as Youtube
The little (i) in the top left of the address bar, then under permissions click allow. The article has a screen shot and details on this
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#537Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has never crashed on update for me, at least that I can remember after ten years. I have seen the warning message, that arrived years ago however. I'll add the caveat that I typically restart my browser at least once a day, perhaps avoids the problem.
It wasn't immediately after update. It was after you updated it while it was running and then you tried something, that triggered the crash (like opening a new tab). Later it stopped to crash, but acted weirdly (clicks on links didn't work, etc). Nowadays we have the notice to restart the browser. It didn't arrive years ago, just a few releases ago. This was only under Linux, and only with the distro package managers…
Yep, understand that.
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#538Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens to me every single day on the Windows 10 start menu and on my iPhone using the swipe-down search on the Home screen. Why in God's green Earth the developers who implemented these don't cache obvious local results (like app names) to quickly return them is beyond me, and why the position of the results has to move after the fact is even more maddening I typed "Arro" for an app I use last night, it took a…
Better yet is when you type "Ar" looking for "Arrow" and get 1) Arrow 2) Arboles 3) Area And then type another 'r' before you realize your result is there ("Arr") and as you go to select "Arrow" the auto-suggest results turn into 1) Array 2) Arrogant 3) Arrow Like, how does adding the second 'r' make "Array" higher probability than "Arrow"?!
Your not accepting the 1st suggestion (Arrow) when you typed "Ar" decreased the probability that that was the term you intended. The next suggestion factored in that you were probably looking for something else and bumped up other suggestions.
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#539Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens to me every single day on the Windows 10 start menu and on my iPhone using the swipe-down search on the Home screen. Why in God's green Earth the developers who implemented these don't cache obvious local results (like app names) to quickly return them is beyond me, and why the position of the results has to move after the fact is even more maddening I typed "Arro" for an app I use last night, it took a…
Better yet is when you type "Ar" looking for "Arrow" and get 1) Arrow 2) Arboles 3) Area And then type another 'r' before you realize your result is there ("Arr") and as you go to select "Arrow" the auto-suggest results turn into 1) Array 2) Arrogant 3) Arrow Like, how does adding the second 'r' make "Array" higher probability than "Arrow"?!
Every time I click the share button in Android, the icons are in completely different order. Not last recently used, not alphabetically. Completely random.
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#540Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or all of the sites that have adopted a 'card' view. Gannett sites all have this terrible UX that if you click in the white space around an article, it closes the article and takes you to the home page. [0] Accidental clicks on white space shouldn't do anything! [0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/tourney/2019/03/...
Accidental clicks on white space shouldn't do anything! They are racking up click-throughs. Advertisers pay just as much for accidental clicks as intentional ones, so the site operator is incentivized to generate as many as possible. Being the dumbest morons ever to mo a ron, the advertisers don't understand that they're the marks in this particular con game. Eventually they will get tired of paying for worthless cli…
>Eventually they will get tired of paying for worthless clicks
They'll just start paying less per click. A worse outcome for everyone, not just the bad players.