Can anyone advise how far away hardware accelerated video on Linux might be?
Firefox 72.0
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Re: Firefox 72.0
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
You get used to it - UI is slightly different in some areas, but it lacks for no major features and performance is good, like firefox in general. I've found it's extremely valuable to be developing sites in Firefox using the dev tools simply to help catch issues that the rest of the team ignores as they're all stuck on Chrome. Fights monocultures by default!
I remember Firefox being seriously lacking in some WebSocket dev tools that I needed. But I checked again and they're there. So it seems like they are actively improving the dev tools.
Yep, I believe that was a relatively recent addition actually. They're making great progress on the dev tools side of things.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#83After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…
> After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs)
Me too! I'm not as bothered by software-politics as many of the commentators on here (I don't hate Facebook, and worked there for four years; I don't hate ads; I don't worry too much about trafficking and privacy...) but Chrome fucking with the URL was a bridge too far. I switched to Firefox and when Google walked back their hiding-the-URL business, I never bothered switching back, because I didn't trust them anymore.
Companies take note: users' trust that you won't arbitrarily change their workflow in annoying ways is hard to win back.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#84Here's my Firefox wishlist:
- Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome.
- Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords.
- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let's move on.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#85Interestingly the beta for 73.0 [1] includes NextDNS as a second choice for DNS over HTTPS providers as well as Cloudflare. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0beta/releasenotes/
Beware though - NextDNS is good but their servers being hosted in France the geolocation gets you IPs in france (when accessing Google properties for example) which slows things down a lot - 30-50ms vs 130+ in my case.
They should have thought about this - it is possible to force resolve the individual domains in the NextDNS UI but that gets problematic fast.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#86Re: picture in picture - anyone else here think that this feature doesn't belong to a browser? It just seems so... erm... random, basically. Looks like something that was cloned from some other product and rather crudely shoehorned in. At the very least it should have been introduced after an update and given an option to opt-in to using it, rather than automatically enabling it without any notice.
I think it's a sensible feature but should have been added just as a button on the standard video controls and as part of the right click menu. If a website goes out of the way to abstract both of those things into site controls then the browser shouldn't be adding additional menus on top to try to get around it it should let the site decide to add the button or not.
A great example is Twitch (which I would have assumed was one of the prime use/test cases). Twitch has these things they call "extensions" that streamers can add to the player of anyone watching the stream... and they pop out on hover from the right when you want to access their main settings. So instead of clicking the button to modify the extension suddenly the video is in the corner of my monitor.
That's when I decided to disable it for now :).
Edit: clarification
Re: Firefox 72.0
#87Can't wait to find out if this release fixes a bug ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557160 ) that was preventing correct rendering of extension popup windows/context menus when the APZ zooming was enabled (which allows pinch-to-zoom gestures, e.g. on the MS Surface). Update: Just got to try it out, seems like it indeed works now. Yay Firefox 72!
Still open in 72.0 is the APZ bug where zooming out after zooming in results in the page being wider than the window.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#88My favorite browser since 2017. I don't miss Chrome for anything.
My favorite since the 2000's (idk when I started using it, mom didnt let me install it on the home computer for ages) I tried Chrome earlier on but (and I've said this on HN before) it didnt have adblock, then when it did, it was crippled. I never went back.
I used it since the betas. I'm early Mozilla user too. But I quit using it when Google Chrome shipped its first beta. Then, it was matter of time I started to use it. Remember FF was so slow between 2008-2015.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along. I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser and always on top is such a great feature.
Open in new window. Resize window. Right-click title bar, select "Always on Top". App developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers. A good window manager would give you tabs for free, PiP (aka an always-on-top window) for free, dark mode for free. Instead OS devs go overboard in simplifying things to the point that app devs have to pay the cost of delivering what users want.
Win10 (the version I have at work) has removed "keep above" and made it application specific, OneNote has it, Word doesn't. It's crazy.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#90After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…
I also gave Firefox another shot a couple months ago and I'm surprised at how much better it is nowadays. It's been such a good experience I'm also giving a go to the Firefox Preview[0] on my Android - even though it's still under heavy development, I like some of the changes to the mobile browser it makes and it'll make in a near future. [0] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/12/03/firefox-p...
Firefox preview is fantastic. I started using it expecting a very unstable experience and... it hasn't been.
For me its been fantastic.