Firefox 76

i just want to say, Firefox is seriously fast now, while Chrome continues to get slower [1].<p>my 10M datapoint uPlot benchmark runs in half the time, for both pure js (fake data gen) and canvas workloads (chart rendering). check out the console in [2].<p>however, i&#x27;m still waiting for the performance assessment in devtools to improve so i can get an easy summary as i can in Chrome.<p>also, better default form input styling would be nice. it&#x27;s so...Windows 98....but i&#x27;m on Windows 10. :\<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krausest&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;issues&#x2F;683#issuecomment-616080615" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krausest&#x2F;js-framework-benchmark&#x2F;issues&#x2F;68...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leeoniya.github.io&#x2F;uPlot&#x2F;bench&#x2F;uPlot-10M.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leeoniya.github.io&#x2F;uPlot&#x2F;bench&#x2F;uPlot-10M.html</a>

Thank you to the Firefox team, this seems like a really nice release. I am very happy about the &quot;If you don’t have a master password set up for Firefox, Windows and macOS now requires a login to your operating system account before showing your saved passwords.&quot; change. It might seem like a small change, but it&#x27;s one of those friction points (another password to remember!) that will lead to (hopefully) more people using the built-in password autofill. Thank you again!<p>Anyone with a security background or someone who has thought through this more: what are the implications of making the OS level authentication the default, and then only ask to make a master pwd if there are no OS level login pwds? Is one or the other more secure?

&gt; The shadow around the address bar field is reduced in width when a new tab is opened;<p>I mean, at least they&#x27;re trying, I guess. Still seems to me like lipstick on a pig.<p>I&#x27;m still trying to figure out what UX problem the expanding bar was intended to address.

&gt;Firefox now supports Audio Worklets that will allow more complex audio processing like VR and gaming on the web; and is being adopted by some of your favorite software programs.<p>&gt; With this change, you can now join Zoom calls on Firefox without the need for any additional downloads.

In the security bug fixes:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; CVE-2020-12387: Use-after-free during worker shutdown<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Impact: critical<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; A race condition when running shutdown code for Web Worker led to a use-after-free vulnerability. This resulted in a potentially exploitable crash.<p>And:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; CVE-2020-12388: Sandbox escape with improperly guarded Access Tokens<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Impact: critical<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; The Firefox content processes did not sufficiently lockdown access control which could result in a sandbox escape. [On Windows]<p>So a sandbox escape and a way to be in a position to need a sandbox escape.

Firefox made a huge mistake following in Chrome&#x27;s trail with the version numbering scheme. I just don&#x27;t care about Firefox 76, is it a big change? Is there some new feature I would want to try? Who knows, I&#x27;m sure Firefox 77 will be out soon though!

&gt; Firefox displays critical alerts in the Lockwise password manager when a website is breached;<p>&gt;If one of your accounts is involved in a website breach and you&#x27;ve used the same password on other websites, you will now be prompted to update your password. A key icon identifies which accounts use that vulnerable password.<p>this is great! thanks :)

I love Firefox and use it as my primary browser for years but few things which annoy me:<p>- Sending tabs between devices does not work. It sometimes arrives 12 hours!!! later<p>- Google Cloud Console has some UI issues on Firefox<p>- Twitter input field behaves extremely strangely when you enter an emoji and try to edit text afterwards<p>- I don’t understand why some html elements have a different appearance and default css attributes on Firefox mobile vs desktop

I really want to use Firefox, but they’re just stuck with so many issues, then suddenly out of nowhere they make the address bar massive.<p>My personal annoyance, on macOS:<p>Cmd+Click a link: - Safari, opens in tab in background - Chrome, opens in tab in background - Firefox, opens in tab in background<p>Shift+Cmd+Click a link: - Safari, opens in tab in foreground - Chrome, opens in tab in foreground - Firefox, opens in tab in foreground<p>Cmd+Click a bookmark: - Safari, opens in tab in background - Chrome, opens in tab in background - Firefox, opens in tab in foreground<p>Shift+Cmd+Click a link: - Safari, opens in tab in foreground - Chrome, opens in tab in foreground - Firefox, opens in tab in background<p>For some reason it’s different for the bookmarks. I opened an issue <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1597910" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1597910</a>, because really there is no actual reason to make them different, but it was closed on the basis that it might disturb the muscle memory of some users. But changing the entire menu bar is completely fine?

Hearing good things about firefox performance vs. chrome in this thread, I thought I would have a look at firefox use of rust - I found this informative page which provides a lot of rationale for where rust has been used: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Oxidation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Oxidation</a><p>Here is a cut of what was introduced in Firefox 76 (copy&amp;paste)<p>Integrate fluent-rs, a localization system: bug 1560038 (shipped in Firefox 76)<p>Why Rust? Performance and memory wins are substantial over previous JS implementation. It brings zero-copy parsing, and memory savvy resolving of localization strings. It also paves the way for migrating the rest of the Fluent APIs away from JS which is required for Fission.

I wish there were more options to control tab priority and UI latency in firefox.<p>I have a respectable (2x8 core xeon, 164gb ram) workstation running linux and I have many tabs&#x2F;windows open with various references spread across virtual desktops optimised for tasks (work project 1, 2, education, personal project,... etc).<p>I&#x27;ve experimented with various extensions that pause tabs and currently use tab wrangler to auto-close tabs but it still gets slower to respond with ~50 tabs open across all windows. Sometimes I check the firefox &amp; system task managers to see some basic reference tab (i.e. blog post) taking most of the CPU...<p>It would be great to be able to aggressively throttle inactive tabs or even pause them completely so only ram is used.<p>Some options around this use case would be much appreciated. Responsiveness under (almost) all conditions is much more important than raw benchmark throughput. Near instant tab resuming would be a huge help towards this goal as well.

Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough?<p>Are the passwords stored remotely if you have multi-device profiles?<p>Edit: I asked because I see that some of the updats are related.

&gt; Audio playback is currently not working when running the 32-bit Windows version of Firefox from a network drive.<p>This is a very intriguing bug. How could it be affected by running on a network drive?

There are 2 things I miss from switching to FF:<p>Right click on a picture -&gt; search google for image Right click -&gt; Translate page<p>Everything else seems smooth enough.

So far my only gripe for picture-in-picture is no closed captioning from sites like YouTube. Otherwise, fantastic as has been usual for Firefox.

Is the simulcast feature added in yet? I want to ditch Chromium that I only ever use for Jitsi already.

I have been loving Firefox for the last year. The only shortcoming for me is that video playback and animation playback (svg&#x2F;js) is highly CPU intensive in comparison to Safari&#x2F;Chrome. I basically open Chrome to watch any videos.

Looking forward to WebRender starting using Vulkan instead of OpenGL on Linux.

And yet they still haven&#x27;t added the feature to globally zoom, instead of per website. This is the only thing that keeps me using chrome

Can I abuse an Audio Worklet to get around timeout throttling? What&#x27;s stopping me to do so?

Scrolling is still choppy compared to safari and even chrome

Address bar had been screwed in the version 75. I hope it has been fixed in this one.

Lol. On first glance I read &quot;Fallout 76&quot;.

I just switched to Safari - to be able to set time limits to websites on my mac, as I am consuming too much news these days. This is not possible with Firefox as far as I know.

I&#x27;ve literally just installed 75...

Whenever I start up Firefox it tells me to wait a few moments while it updates. The browser obviously doesn&#x27;t care about me. It has its own agenda. This is why I won&#x27;t use it.