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Firefox 39.0 released
- mrspeaker 11y agoI love that the Fetch API is happening (has happened!): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API fetch(url).then(data => ...) Not earth-shattering, but much more fun than XHR!
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- youaresolam3 11y agohttp://i.imgur.com/ewQEoFU.gif http://i.imgur.com/ewQEoFU.gif
- iso8859-1 11y agohow do I use it with the yield keyword?
- knodi123 11y agoGuess nobody told them, https://bachelorburnbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/image.png https://bachelorburnbook.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/image.p...
- khuey 11y agoWe've been making that joke internally at Mozilla for at least a year.
- gdamjan1 11y agofetch looks nice on the surface, but you can't cancel a request. is there even a timeout?
- ponyous 11y agoHow much does Project Silk improves scrolling performance? Can you "feel" it? Scrolling/motion performance is the only thing that is keeping me away from FF at the moment - Even dev tools are getting amazingly good.
- mariusmg 11y agoIt's OSX only for now.
- s_kilk 11y agoFor what it's worth, I've just updated on OS X and scrolling feels just as janky as ever.
- tachion 11y agoSame here. But I'll keep using Firefox because I cant stand what Chrome is doing with my cpu/memory/privacy and I want to keep Safari (the less 'usable' browser) for work related stuff and Firefox for personal ones, on another desktop space.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoTwo firefox profiles? One for work and one for personal? Type "man firefox" into your terminal and you will see the relevant options and can set up aliases and shortcuts appropriate for your separated browsing needs.
- cpeterso 11y agoThere are some Firefox add-ons that let you run multiple profiles in separate windows.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoFirefox does this out of the box without any addons.
- bbx 11y agoSurprised by the inclusion of "CSS Scroll Snap Points": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap-points-y https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap... It basically allows to do scroll hijacking [1] without any JavaScript, just like this: http://blog.gospodarets.com/demos/scroll-snap-full-screen/ http://blog.gospodarets.com/demos/scroll-snap-full-screen/ [1]: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/ http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/
- brudil 11y agoAs much as the effect can be irritating, Firefox lets you over-scroll before snapping which is a much better experience compared to that fallback jQuery plugin.
- reubenmorais 11y agoPeople experimented with new ways of handling user input (as they have for decades), found that it was a good way to layout some pages, and then complained to browser vendors that doing it in JS sucks. CSS snap points is just a way to make the experience better for developers and users. That's exactly how the Web should work. Personally I think CSS is "style hijacking" — the Web really is about the text, not the colors.
- ponyous 11y agoWoah I did not expect it to work that well. I always hated scroll-hijacking webpages, because ~1% of them did it right.
- jug 11y agoI'm torn.. I dislike scroll hijacking and in a sense don't want support for this practice, _but_ at the same time I assume this will never go away and then this seems less hacky and easier to make it work without ruining use on various input devices and settings. For example, I tried the demo and saw how the pages jumped to the nearest page if I middle click and pulled down to go half way. Corner cases or anything more complicated than simple wheel flips often don't seem to work if you hack your own solution. Now the browser seems to have a much better idea of what's going on. So.. That's nice. We'll get hijacks but at least they seem to be much more robust? But at the same time I hope this won't make more designers hijack scrolling or go overboard with this. :\
- JonnieCache 11y agoIf you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/ http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/
- kuschku 11y agoYou’ll need to have a font installed that supports them, Firefox does not bundle fonts for emoji ;)
- cromantin 11y agoIf i ever go to hell i know what my punishment will be - implement unicode
- taosat 11y agoThere is a Unicode character PERSON WITH BLOND HAIR, but no corresponding PERSON WITH BLACK HAIR. This is obviously discriminatory. We need new emoji modifiers for: blonde-hair, black-hair, brown-hair, red-hair etc.
- eterm 11y agoThat's actually covered in that article: "As to hair color, dark hair tends to be more neutral, because people of every skin tone can have black (or very dark brown) hair—however, there is no requirement for any particular hair color. One exception is PERSON WITH BLOND HAIR, which needs to have blond hair regardless of skin tone."
- cesarb 11y ago> Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts This is the one which has the greatest chance of giving people a headache. For instance, one of the biggest banks here still uses only RC4 for its online banking site. Its top-level hostname and a few of its auxiliary hostnames are on the whitelist, but there's no guarantee that all the RC4-only auxiliary hostnames it might use for some of its functionality are on the whitelist.
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y agoGood. Breaking their websites is the only way some people will fix their broken security.
- owly 11y agoYES. Force them to upgrade their weak sites!
- jbrooksuk 11y agoWhich unfortunately costs time and money. Whilst yes, they should be up to date and secure, banks are pretty big businesses and require more time. One day they'll catch up.
- Elidrake24 11y agoBut that's the inherent problem; these companies are still setup for a bureaucracy that works fine in a particular area of business, but completely crumbles under the new rules of the technological age. We shouldn't be apologetic for their resisting of change, but rather pushing them to take a long hard look at what needs to be reorganized to fit into the new paradigm.
- Flimm 11y agoMalicious crackers aren't going to wait.
- chrismartin 11y ago
- edwintorok 11y agoIf all your passwords are gone/not working in the password manager after the upgrade see this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146731 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146731
- ikeboy 11y agoSo, they finally fixed Logjam, 1 month and a half after publication. Chrome still hasn't fixed it. Color me unimpressed.
- conradk 11y agoSince Chromium is open source, you can contribute to the project. I'm sure if you send a quality patch to the Chromium dev team to fix Logjam, they'd be willing to review it. Did you try to contribute to Chromium and Firefox to speed up fixing the Logjam issue ?
- ikeboy 11y ago>Did you try to contribute to Chromium and Firefox to speed up fixing the Logjam issue? No. The issue isn't that it's (so) hard to fix; the fix in 39 has been out for a while, they just didn't want to release it for the stable release, which means few people got it. (In fact, some distros apparently fixed their versions earlier [1]). On Firefox, you could manually fix it in 2 minutes [2] I'm not familiar with the codebases, so it would take me longer to make a patch, but it really should not take 2 months to release to stable a fix that affected 8.4% [3] of popular websites, especially for a company like Google. The tinfoil hat in me says certain things about this, considering that logjam was likely known by the NSA, but then again I can't prove anything. I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more talk about this, actually. A major security hole going unfixed for months after public disclosure should have had more chatter. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9702061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9702061 [2] http://techdows.com/2015/05/how-to-make-firefox-browser-safe-against-logjam-attack.html http://techdows.com/2015/05/how-to-make-firefox-browser-safe... [3] https://weakdh.org/ https://weakdh.org/
- JupiterMoon 11y agoWhy should one provide a patch for Google's browser. Google are rich they can do it themselves? The day that Chrome is a verified build of Chromium with all the Google centric stuff as optional add ons is the day sending Chromium patches makes sense.
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- kozukumi 11y agoAnd yet there are still issues on my Sandy Bridge system with display corruption even with the latest Intel drivers. Also has anyone else noticed that Firefox is no longer keeping the page state when navigating back? For example on Reddit go to the comments section, minimize a few comments then navigate to a link then go back and none of the minimized comments remain minimized, in Firefox prior to 38 things worked correctly.
- ElongatedTowel 11y agoI haven't seen many people mentioning this problem before. I've seen it come up in discussions on the current AMD GPU lines. Hard to say who is to blame, but it's rarely obvious just how many problems there are before buying a card. I got a cheap R7 260x which seems to have trouble with waking up from low power states. Some people even made custom BIOS's to fight the problem. I don't know how more modern stuff like accelerated transforms, canvas, WebGL or DirectWrite play into that equation. Browsing seems to pull out GPU's from the lowest power modes constantly, which might cause these problems on a wide variety of GPUs.
- ErikDub 11y agoYes I have noticed the exact same thing on Reddit lately. My guess it's because they started sending "Cache-Control: no-cache" which prevents Firefox to cache the page for the back button.
- kozukumi 11y agoAh yeah that makes sense, I thought it might have been something to do with their recent switch to HTTPS only.
- paralelogram 11y agohttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567365 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567365
- mallocnofree 11y agowait, display corruption? Is that when these black bars flicker across my screen about once every hour or so when ff is open? I thought my gpu was dying...
- XaspR8d 11y agoThe preconnect relationship is intriguing; I hadn't been following the adoption of resource hints. Sidenote: I find it really interesting that the current spec suggests preconnect and its siblings accept a probability attribute estimating how likely connecting to different resources is.[1] Something funny to me about making the directed-graph/state-machine nature of the internet finally show through the markup. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/#hint-probability http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/#hint-probability
- forscha 11y agoProbably unfair of me, but when browsers have a new .0 release, my brain automatically thinks "Oh good, new security bugs."
- astrodust 11y agoWindows XP never stopped having bugs, and who knows how many patches they'd applied to it.
- notatoad 11y agofirefox is on a 6-week release schedule, and has been for a while. They increment a by whole number each time, but the for both chrome and FF they shouldn't really be thought of as .0 releases. It's a fairly minor, incremental change.
- chippy 11y ago"Drag and drop enabled for nodes in Inspector markup view " This is going to make me never use Chrome dev tools again. Nice
- jammaloo 11y agoI can't think of a situation that would make me want to move nodes around from place to place. Where would that be useful?
- DCoder 11y agoChrome dev tools also support node drag-and-drop as well as ctrl-x/c/v in the Elements panel.
- chippy 11y agoYes, and now that Firefox has this, I do not need to swap to Chrome to use it.
- azinman2 11y agoYey for progress, but one of the most annoying things for me with FF is that if I cmd-t for a new tab, I can't start typing right away for a new search and have that get preserved. There's always some lag and only then do my keys get transcribed. Safari and chrome don't have this problem, and it drives me insane.
- abrowne 11y agoThat would annoy me too, but I've never noticed it. My main laptop is a Core 2 Duo, so not a speed demon. Have you tried with extensions disabled and/or with a new profile?
- azinman2 11y agoBelieve so. But either way if its extensions well that sucks because I only have like 2-3 and I want. Extensions shouldn't be written in a way that does that -- chrome and safari don't have this problem and I have about 12 chrome extensions.
- lobster_johnson 11y agoTo those using FF, is there a way to get an "omnibar" similar to Safari? For example, Safari usually suggests Wikipedia articles or other useful autocompletions. FF only autocompletes from domain names, bookmarks and history, it seems. It does have a separate search input in the toolbar, but even that one doesn't do what Safari does; all the suggested autocompletes are from Google, and additional search engines like Wikipedia or Amazon require that you click on their icon to search. There's an extension called Omnibar, but it doesn't seem to provide suggestions from other than Google, bookmarks and history.
- MichaelGG 11y agoI really do miss typing part of a domain name (often YouTube), hitting tab, and doing an on site search. But I'll put up with whatever to support Mozilla. Their work on Firefox and Rust is some of the most important going on.
- amluto 11y agoFirefox's URL bar is literally my favorite Firefox feature. It's quick, it searches my local history much better than Chrome, and it doesn't leak anything to the world. If I want to search the Internet, I type in the search box.