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Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by duskwuff »

phkahler wrote: post #68

>> Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware using Parallel-Off-Main-Thread Painting Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?!?!?! And yet Wayland support is still not up to snuff. I use Firefox almost exclusively, but Mozilla seems to have some strange priorities. It's not just them, it's a lot of people out there doing what they want instead o…

> Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?

Two words: Remote Desktop.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by fasafasfsf »

fasafsafsf wrote: post #66
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure? Here is what "recommended by pocket", which automatically appeared recently, shows for me [edit: this is non-personalized as mentioned in a comment]: "buzzfeednews: Teachers are moonlighting as instagram influencers to make ends meet" trending "vox: a history of happiness explains why capitalism makes us feel empty inside" trending "theguardian: chanel shoes, but no salary: how one woman exposed the sca…

I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.

What's the left-wing news that they are posting?

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by escherplex »

ianbicking wrote: post #10
caiob wrote: post #7

> Added Canadian English (en-CA) locale Not bad, Eh?!

Some thorough translator finished translating all the strings for a project of mine into en-CA, which triggered the build error for having two exactly identical files in the tree (since en-CA was entirely identical to en-US). Nothing is free! This is why we can't have useless things!

Yes but don't you think it's skookum (BC) and aboot time for Newfie-speak to be recognized, eh? But after awhile multiple locale files do appear more like vanity metrics in apps like LibreOffice, with 18 possible English locale settings. Even the OED simply incorporates regional variations in its inventory so the need for redundancy does seem questionable. And in spell checking or grammar, illustration of possible regional variations may be useful to authors. EG, a Brit writes to a Yank 'I am going to shop', with 'shop' treated as a noun. But to the Yank 'to shop' would be an infinitive so a grammar check could point out that ambiguity.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by pretty_dumm_guy »

bovine3dom wrote: post #56

Coinciding with this release, Firefox 52 ESR is no longer supported, so no supported versions of Firefox support the legacy extensions. I'm mentioning this here just so I can tell Vimperator / Pentadactyl / VimFx users that there are loads of options you can replace your old extensions with, some of which are... okay. Links follow in increasing order of user-friendliness: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl [^] ht…

Hey. First I would like to thank you for the awesome work. I really enjoy using your plugin. Being a avid vim user it just makes it more easier right now. I do like to point out few issues that I have noticed so far.

1. key n used to traverse through all the found elements doesn't work properly.

2. The add on doesn't work when I am using pdf preview.

I believe I am using the most updated version of the plugin (last checked yesterday as of this comment).

I hope you look into this. If I am missing something please let me know.

Again thank you for the awesome work. If you have some time I would love to pick your brain about a few things.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by fasafsafsf »

nine_k wrote: post #74
fasafsafsf wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.

What a progressive company from Mountain View, CA, would be sticking to? I believe it's sort of hard to be right-wing in a place like that, at least publicly. I also suppose that this may be the default for a particular audience / geolocation. That is, maybe they'd show a different thing in Russia (sorry, I don't have a Russian VPN), and maybe even a different thing in Texas. Or maybe something based on your previous…

First, they could be sticking to neutral news. Those exist.

Second, I don't believe the source code of the algorithm that picks which news to show you is available... If there's an algorithm at all, because chances are it's curated by humans.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by phakding »

gkya wrote: post #67
phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

Complaining, criticising, two different things. The latter is what's being done, and that is quite useful. Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless. I have a love/hate relationship w/ Firefox, but it's the best trade-off for a privacy-aware power-user that also wants a relatively stable browser which does not want too much fiddling. But too many negatives are present and if we do not point them out they wont be…

> Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless

I hope that your manager doesn't think that way. :)

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by aidenn0 »

phkahler wrote: post #68

>> Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware using Parallel-Off-Main-Thread Painting Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?!?!?! And yet Wayland support is still not up to snuff. I use Firefox almost exclusively, but Mozilla seems to have some strange priorities. It's not just them, it's a lot of people out there doing what they want instead o…

Some buggy graphics drivers make accelerated rendering a bad idea (mostly older cards, but also often the first few revisions of the driver for a new Intel gpu). I don't know if FF does, but chrome used to maintain a blacklist of GPUs to disable hardware rendering

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by driverdan »

nerdponx wrote: post #50
nathcd wrote: post #38

> Removed the description field for bookmarks. Users who have stored descriptions using the field may wish to export these descriptions as html or json files, as they will be removed in a future release. Does anyone know if there's an explanation for this somewhere? Between removing live bookmarks (a simple feed reader) and this, it seems like they're paring down user-facing features. I don't think these are the feat…

They're also paring down user-facing settings . It makes no sense to, e.g., send people to about:config for disabling web service workers.

They've been actively hostile to friendly user settings for years. They constantly reduce what's exposed through the settings page, forcing users into about:config.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by fpgaminer »

gkya wrote: post #67
phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

Complaining, criticising, two different things. The latter is what's being done, and that is quite useful. Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless. I have a love/hate relationship w/ Firefox, but it's the best trade-off for a privacy-aware power-user that also wants a relatively stable browser which does not want too much fiddling. But too many negatives are present and if we do not point them out they wont be…

> complimenting is nice, but useless

Some people will base their decisions on which software to try/use, based on the general sentiment of discussions on Hacker News. For example, suppose you suddenly had the need for Email As A Service. Which of the plethora of services will you choose to use? I believe a lot of Hacker News users will weight their decisions at least in part on HN comments discussing those services.

The same goes for Firefox. If all people ever see is criticism, that is likely to drive people away from Firefox. That means less revenue for Mozilla, which means a worse browser for us.

Basically I'm saying that compliments, positive comments, are not useless. Quite the opposite.

(Don't get me wrong. I completely agree with you that criticism is necessary. I'm not saying those comments are bad. I'm saying positive comments serve an important function too.)

And besides, suppose you were a Firefox developer reading these comment threads. Don't you think the positive comments can provide a bit of encouragement?

Mozilla should know not only what it is doing wrong, but also what it is doing right. And that goes for any software and any company.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by dartf »

JimminyCrocket wrote: post #57

Youtube on Firefox for me is awful. I get constant buffering on 1080p+ content. Chrome is flawless. I have the same extensions on both browsers, curious if anyone else has experienced the same recently?

It was discussed some time ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606027

TLDR: YouTube uses some obsolete technologies that aren't supported in non webkit browsers.

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