Android version comes with a completely new design, and empty "What's new" section in Google Play gave no indication it's going be such a major change.<p>Even more importantly, it has overridden data collection preferences after the update. Check "Settings > Data collection". I had to disable "Marketing data" and "Experiments" toggles. Not cool!
For me, Fenix on Android is the worst update ever. I use Firefox as my main browser on Android since almost 10 years and my whole mobile workflow depends on the awesome Tab Queue-feature (new tabs from other Apps like Twitter/Slack/Mails are opened in the background).<p>With Fenix, Mozilla decided to just abandon that feature. Issues are closed, it got removed from the feature list [1] and further questions are ignored.
I fully understand that you can't keep every feature everywhere, but this was THE main benefit of Firefox (besides ublock) for me and if you look at GitHub/Reddit/Twitter I am not the only one.<p>Now I have to stick to an outdated browser because of an (for me) completely unnecessary, degrading update :/.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/470" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/470</a>
For Wayland users DMA-BUF video textures are now used when the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is enabled.<p>I personally saw a number of regressions[0] on Debian testing for video playback on the beta releases for 79, but it largely seems to have settled down now.<p>[0] particularly this one: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643855" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643855</a><p>(Copied from my comment on the submission for the official release notes)
Highlights:<p>- Return of shared memory between parts of the same page (including web workers). Parallel processing becomes more efficient, good for complex apps and games.<p>- Time-traveling debugger of sorts: search for "restart frame".
"The reference-types proposal is now supported. It provides a new type, externref, which can hold any JavaScript value, for example strings, DOM references, or objects."<p>This is exciting! It opens up faster possibilities for wasm apps
I wonder if we could try something new and have all discussion related to Mozilla or Firefox as a whole, including comparisons to other browsers, privacy, and how much battery it uses on macOS in just one thread so people can collapse it.
Every few versions I would check Firefox on macOS just to see if they make any progress with battery drain.<p>And... Firefox 79 with one active tab is taking 6x more energy than Safari with 20+ tabs.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/LyhnbKZ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/LyhnbKZ</a><p>Maybe it is better on other OSes, but on macOS nothing beats Webkit in terms of performance.<p>Not to mention the home page bloat - Firefox is starting to look like cnn of browsers.
Thumbnails are buggy.
Auto complete doesnt work in some cases. No tab reordering, open in new tab order is weird. Home page is worse. No addons... lots of other small annoyances.<p>And worst of it, no about config. I dont like the direction mozilla is taking. Do they have any reasoning for no abour config.<p>This is quite a downgrade, I think I am switching to another browser on mobile.
Same question as the last time [0]: I see the benefit of wasm extensions and I see how to enable them in "manual" compilation (for rustc, -C target-feature=+bulk-memory), but I didn't yet find a documented way of using them in wider used setups like wasm-pack. I'd love to try recompiling a full project with these features, but I just can't find out how to do it.<p>The release notes say "The wasm-bindgen documentation includes guidance for taking advantage of externref from Rust", but I didn't yet find anything about it there either.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690406" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690406</a>
I would hope the key presses required to use the native search among opened tabs had changed.<p>- Ctrl-L to go to the address bar<p>- release Ctrl (otherwise, the next keypress fail)<p>- Shift-6 to type "%" in the address bar<p>- space<p>- [your query and hit tab/enter to navigate results]<p>The last bullet is a close to ideal, native search among open tabs and make it so smooth to find an opened tab among dozens. But the key presses necessary to get there? Who can use that without weekly hospital stays for finger RSIs?<p>I love firefox. If someone, somewhere reads this, please please please think of simpler key presses to use this nice, already built functionality.<p>(I know non-native extensions provide similar feature. But native would be so cool and stable, especially that it's already built).
In 78 they've added a persistent Google search as a top line in URL bar drop-down list. I couldn't find it documented anywhere neither in release notes nor in help topics.<p>Does anyone by chance knows how to remove it?
This update has, for the first time in over 10 years, rendered Firefox pretty much unusable for me on Ubuntu: Both the URL and the search bar are completely broken - neither autocomplete nor searching via google/DDG works. The only way to open a URL is to type it in full. Not cool. I guess I should move to ESR.
It's a small thing, but I have found the usage of the logical and/or/null to be much cleaner.<p>a ??= 3;<p>(It would be even nicer if it could mean the same thing in PHP.)
Firefox, current, is really slow on video rendering.
Youtube on 1080p kinda freezes at times. Same video works perfectly in Chrome<p>Im on Win10, this happenened on win8.1 aswell.
I’ve tried Firefox about once a year for the past five years and always immediately go back to chromium. Scrolling is always broken out of the box on all platforms I’ve tried (Linux and macOS).<p>Edit: trying again, the macOS track pad seems ok but scroll wheel behavior is different. Firefox requires 2-3 times the scrolling distance and transitions slowly to the final scroll destination. Chrome does not.<p>Edit 2: I’m almost positive it’s smooth scrolling. Some people hate it and some like it. This reddit thread sums up: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_smooth_scrolling/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5zoa1t/do_you_use_...</a>