Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by skellertor » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 3:34 PM UTC

Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
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Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by owenshen24 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 3:57 PM UTC

Built-in support for lazy image loading is pretty nice! No more annoying JS-based hacks to get it to work.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by AndrewStephens » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:10 PM UTC

Two things I am looking forward to:

* Lazy loading images without JavaScript

* Static fields in JavaScript classes - I wanted to use this the other day and was disappointed that FF didn't support static fields yet.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by clairity » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

firefox also removes 'www' and 'https' in drop-down search results from the address bar[0]. it's a subtle change, but worth knowing. 'http' urls remain in long form apparently (haven't installed yet to check it out).

edit: min(), max(), and clamp() for css looks useful too.

edit 2: honoring 'nosniff' on mime types on page load is neat too [1]

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/28/firefox-75-address-bar-res...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/04/07/firefox-75-will...

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by gshdg » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by Analemma_ » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:23 PM UTC

gshdg wrote: post #5

Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.

Viewport jumping is the scourge of web browsing; if some browser deployed some kind of advanced heuristic to try and get rid of it completely that alone might get me to switch.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by WhyNotHugo » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to).

It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by drampelt » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:43 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #6

gshdg wrote: post #5

Will lazy-loading images avoid viewport jumping? Because that's a constant headache on mobile Safari.

Viewport jumping is the scourge of web browsing; if some browser deployed some kind of advanced heuristic to try and get rid of it completely that alone might get me to switch.

I remembered hearing about Chrome doing it a while ago [1] but I still personally experience it fairly often.

1: https://blog.google/products/chrome/taking-aim-annoying-page...

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by yaantc » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #7

There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to). It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.

According to Phoronix it's in: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-...

Re: Firefox 75: Ambitions for April

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Post by staktrace » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:59 PM UTC

drampelt wrote: post #8

Analemma_ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Viewport jumping is the scourge of web browsing; if some browser deployed some kind of advanced heuristic to try and get rid of it completely that alone might get me to switch.

I remembered hearing about Chrome doing it a while ago [1] but I still personally experience it fairly often. 1: https://blog.google/products/chrome/taking-aim-annoying-page...

Both Firefox and Chrome have implementations of scroll anchoring which is intended to fix this. The implementations are different and neither is perfect, but in a lot of cases they do help with jumping.