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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Firefox only uses Freetype on Linux (the system-installed version) and on Android, and the vulnerable code path was only reachable in Firefox with a non-default pref set (gfx.downloadable_fonts.keep_color_bitmaps).
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
This is coming from the Foundation (i.e. where the donations go), not the Corporation (which ships Firefox).
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Looks like they're normally uploaded to Github, but the last release with them there is 80.1.2. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases/
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Incorrect, that was abandoned and pdf.js is very-much what's being used.
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Firefox Quantum was a pretty significant investment in Firefox. It made literally zero impact on their market share decline.
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products(blog.mozilla.org)
1602 points by rebelwebmaster 6y ago|1456 comments
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Yes, the company that laid off 7% of its workforce back in January and still has people on edge about pay cuts and layoffs is secretly rolling in the NSA dough. Makes perfect sense.
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Web platform tests have overtaken them at this point.
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by rebelwebmaster 6y ago
Firefox ESR updates on the same frequency as the mainline release, they're just more limited in scope (i.e. mostly just security & stability fixes).
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Standing Up the Cross-Compilation of Firefox for Windows on Linux(glandium.org)
2 points by rebelwebmaster 7y ago|0 comments
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Mozilla's own public data shows an ongoing decline in usage. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Firefox switched to CoreAnimation in v70, which made a big difference. https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Looks like they've been updated now to mention that the fix was included in beta 2. I guess they're reading this thread :)
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Google pays Mozilla Corporation to be the default search engine in Firefox. I wouldn't classify that as a donation, though.
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Meanwhile, Gnome still can't manage to display a desktop wallpaper when running at 4k resolution and 200% scaling. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1175 Kind of hard to get excited about
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
I wonder what that means for WebGL support on Mac. Though I guess it can run through an intermediate layer similar to ANGLE on Windows.
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Native PiP is coming in Firefox 71 (already available for testing on Beta releases), though Windows-only at first. You can track macOS progress by following: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532675
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Firefox moving to 4 week releases(hacks.mozilla.org)
332 points by rebelwebmaster 7y ago|186 comments
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
There's a built-in extension blocklist which also gets updated remotely. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/app/...
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
It's almost like it was labeled as a Preview for a reason.
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
If it's not something sensitive, try filing a bug and attaching the PDF to it? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c...
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by rebelwebmaster 7y ago
Skia is just one backend used for drawing pixels on the screen. It has nothing to do with deciding which pixels to draw in the first place (i.e. the vast majority of what web browsers do).
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
On 32-bit Windows, processes have maximum address space limitations which can be easily hit by web browsers. Having more content processes makes it less likely that any particular one will hit that limit. Note that content process OOM crash
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
Could reduce out-of-memory crashes if fewer sites are sharing the same process.
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Danelle Dixon Leaving Mozilla(blog.mozilla.org)
5 points by rebelwebmaster 8y ago|0 comments
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
Not saying the article is or isn't true, but how credible is Bloomberg as a news outlet these days after the SuperMicro story?
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
Who's even left from the leadership team around the time of Brendan Eich's departure? Mitchell Baker? Anybody else? Anyway, some say he was fired, some say he resigned. Are we ever going to know what really happened there? And f
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
My understanding from reading the bug reports is that the general cause of macOS performance issues is understood, but to do anything about it with the current architecture would require pulling developers off WebRender development instead.
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by rebelwebmaster 8y ago
FWIW, the release notes for Firefox for Android call out scrolling performance improvements in 3 of the last 4 releases. Might be worth taking another look :)

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