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No HiDPI support yet. They are slacking!

• sp332 14y ago
  Most features support HiDPI in the nightly builds since 4 days ago. http://nightly.mozilla.org/ http://nightly.mozilla.org/ That probably means it will be included in FF 17, in 3 months.
  • dangoor 14y ago
    I think it's actually going to be ready for FF 18
• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Is it really a priority? The vast majority of Firefox users do not own the new MBP.
  • ralfd 14y ago
    This is of course true. But it will ensure every Retina MBP owner is not using Firefox.
  • mikeash 14y ago
    More of them are being sold every day, and the pace is only set to increase as it's pretty much inevitable that Apple will release more high-resolution devices as time goes on. Might as well get it over with now before Firefox gets labeled as "the ugly one on high-res devices".
    • TwoBit 14y ago
      Are we ever going to see a high resolution Windows implementation?
      • TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
        Windows 8 will support multiple DPI values, at least for Metro.
  • asadotzler 14y ago
    This is a priority. The numbers are small today but they're growing and we can expect more HiDPI machines from Apple in the not too far off future.
• irq 14y ago
  You can track the progress of HiDPI support here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373
• wamatt 14y ago
  Agreed HiDPI would be nice, but seriously if anyone is interested, do yourself a favor and check out Firefox again. Firefox Aurora, the bleeding edge http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ Firefox Beta, pretty stable http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/ Firefox Stable http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ You might be totally surprised just how fast it is nowadays, quicker than Chrome even, on many scripts. Not only test wise, but the GUI feels much snappier too.
  • codemac 14y ago
    I can never seem to switch between profiles very effectively. I wish there was a way to run firefox in a "trial" mode where it just created a new temporary profile that it got rid of on exit. I'd like to try out firefox nightly from time to time to see if they've fixed a feature yet or if I should go into the bug tracker. However currently I've managed to accidentally trash my profile a couple times. I made a new profile for nightly, but it then seemed to break firefox beta.. blah blah blah.
    • thristian 14y ago
      It's not very well documented, but at least on Linux you can do this: $ tar xf firefox-nightly-whatever.tar.bz2 $ cd firefox $ mkdir /tmp/temporary-profile $ ./firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/temporary-profile No "profile manager" dialog, no interaction with existing profiles, it just creates a new profile in the directory you specify and starts up.
      • wamatt 14y ago
        On OSX: (directory will be autocreated) $ /Applications/FirefoxAurora.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -no-remote -profile /tmp/temp-profile This is assuming you want to use Firefox Aurora, without interfering with your main profile. (Recommended :p)
• cpeterso 14y ago
  You can get HiDPI text in Firefox 15 and Beta 16 if you set about:config pref layers.acceleration.disabled=true. This obviously has a performance impact, but it's a temporary workaround that let's me keep using Firefox on my Retina MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, this workaround no longer works in Aurora 17 or Nightly 18. :(