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Re: Firefox 74

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Post by MivLives »

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by h4l0 »

MivLives wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

> Facebook Container prevents Facebook...

Considering that Mozilla is already protecting their users from specific target sites, it is only logical to assume that they are also improving user experience for a website which has 1B+ users.

Edit: I still cannot overcome the fact that both products are owned by the same company.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by csomar »

MivLives wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

I'm really wondering about that too.

> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram, the Picture-in-Picture toggle would sit atop of the “next” button. The toggle is now moved allowing you to flip through to the next image of the batch.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by frenchman99 »

MivLives wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

Probably because the changes relate to Picture-in-Picture, which is not a standard web feature. Making sure heavily used websites work well seems logical and Firefox doesn't seem to be messing with web standard here, so it doesn't create any kind of technical debt going forward.

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by richardwhiuk »

MivLives wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

Yes: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/55aa8b3e0f6a

(via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610993, via Google)

Re: Firefox 74

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Post by [deleted] »

frenchman99 wrote: post #5
MivLives wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the patch notes seem to have references to a specific site. Did they really make changes to Firefox that only target Instagram?

Probably because the changes relate to Picture-in-Picture, which is not a standard web feature. Making sure heavily used websites work well seems logical and Firefox doesn't seem to be messing with web standard here, so it doesn't create any kind of technical debt going forward.

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Re: Firefox 74

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Post by Avi-D-coder »

Switched to Firefox nightly and preview recently; it's great once you enable webrender and mess with a few other about:config options. Lockwise on Android is the only issue, it doesn't always suggest my saved passwords.
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