Best feature for me is the themes from developer edition, so now I can finally stop using the the developer edition just for the themes
Beat me to it! The light and dark themes are each so clean and minimal
Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
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Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#82And, as always, I just added Firefox 53 to Browserling. You can try this new version at this URL without installing or updating it: https://www.browserling.com/firefox/53/news.ycombinator.com I've a bunch of VMs available for free testing. If there are too many people wanting to try it, then you'll have to wait in a queue for a few minutes.
Most of the Safari versions are broken because your URL route mechanism is not prepending "http://" to the front of the URL.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if this is why battery and heat are so bad with Firefox on my Ubuntu 16.04 box? I've switched away to chromium because of the sheer difference in battery drain. (And no, it's not a plugin that's causing the problem)
If you watch a lot of Youtube, force the video to MP4 so your graphics card can decode it in hardware. Youtube defaults to VP9 but gfx cards rarely support that codec. Google's wasting a lot of battery life by pushing VP9 onto everyone.
How do you do that?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today! http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...
Quantum Compositor is just a separate process for GPU stuff. It isn't ported from Servo.
It's the same name as the Servo porting project. I could see that creating the separate process is a first step and involves no Servo code as of yet, but how do you know either way?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if this is why battery and heat are so bad with Firefox on my Ubuntu 16.04 box? I've switched away to chromium because of the sheer difference in battery drain. (And no, it's not a plugin that's causing the problem)
If you watch a lot of Youtube, force the video to MP4 so your graphics card can decode it in hardware. Youtube defaults to VP9 but gfx cards rarely support that codec. Google's wasting a lot of battery life by pushing VP9 onto everyone.
Hardware video decoding does not work in linux period. It doesn't matter whether you play an mp4 or vp9 video.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you watch a lot of Youtube, force the video to MP4 so your graphics card can decode it in hardware. Youtube defaults to VP9 but gfx cards rarely support that codec. Google's wasting a lot of battery life by pushing VP9 onto everyone.
How do you do that?
You don't. The person that wrote that is mistaken. Hardware video decoding on Linux is not implemented.
Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks
#88Best feature for me is the themes from developer edition, so now I can finally stop using the the developer edition just for the themes
All along there was an extension called "Developer Edition Theme Enabler" that you could have used :)
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Electrolysis has been enabled by default since Firefox 48. Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule .
> As of Firefox 54+ (early 2017), our Multi-Content process model is currently being tested on Nightly (4 processes). Four content processes will be enabled on 54 Aurora and if stable enough, we will begin to roll it out in Firefox 54 Beta experiments. This seems to be the case because I downloaded Firefox 53 for the first time on my new MacBook Pro and e10s wasn't enabled. I had to go to about:config and enable it m…
You may have an extension blocking it. Get the addon compatability plugin.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today! http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-w...
Quantum Compositor is just a separate process for GPU stuff. It isn't ported from Servo.
It's literally ported from Servo.
> The goal of the Quantum Render project is to take the WebRender compositor in Servo and embed it in Firefox