updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

Heartripper, always the savior of those who's not into rounded tabs \m/ Will bookmark that for when Australis hits Aurora.

Thanks!

Userstyle is up now but not stable yet, I have an upgrade to push but I'll have to wait

[bawz]

http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/running-a-backout-branch-with-mercurial/#comments

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The latest nightly includes a refactoring of SVG filters so that they now use Moz2D (The new name for Azure), and Moz2D has been augmented to use Direct2D effects for filter rendering.

 

Long story short, SVG filters are now hardware accelerated on Windows. They want to do similar GPU work for Linux/OS X (Where they have to write it themselves), and since the speed issues were the main thing stopping an implementation of CSS filters, that shouldn't be far off either.

[bawz]

anyone know whats going on with the " DownThemAll " Download Extension 3.0 Nightly? no update since the 19th of last month 

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

umm....ie test drive etch-a-sketch is drawing much faster now....

 

They probably fixed a regression somewhere.

[.stan]

Starting to look pretty good on Win8, at least on the mockups. https://bug859751.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=742384

[ambiance]

Starting to look pretty good on Win8, at least on the mockups. https://bug859751.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=742384

Is it possible to add padding to the toolbar buttons in the current nightlies? Having the home button looks weird in the top left. It looks like it's coming together and is a step in the right direction.

[giannisgx89]

I'll be switching to Firefox if this nicely new design lands (if ever).

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I'll be switching to Firefox if this nicely new design lands (if ever).

 

In Firefox 29....

[bawz]

In Firefox 29....

so there not landing it in 28? 

[ViperAFK]

so there not landing it in 28? 

afaik the plan is to land it it in fx 28 nightly (which already happened), but it will be backed out for 28 aurora, and then they will introduce it again in firefox 29 until the stable release.

[bawz]

afaik the plan is to land it it in fx 28 nightly (which already happened), but it will be backed out for 28 aurora, and then they will introduce it again in firefox 29 until the stable release.

i havent seen any sources saying there still going to backit out of 28 an continue it on until 29 stable ( i'd like to see Sources that there still going to back it out ) so far they havent stated it in this Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=870032 that it will actually be backed out 

[1for-matik]

afaik the plan is to land it it in fx 28 nightly (which already happened), but it will be backed out for 28 aurora, and then they will introduce it again in firefox 29 until the stable release.

Not exactly...

In fact, they have created a new branch called "holly" which is the Nightly branch without Australis and it's this branch that will be merged into Aurora on December 10...

 

That holly branch will be dead at the end of Firefox 29 development.

[ViperAFK]

Not exactly...

In fact, they have created a new branch called "holly" which is the Nightly branch without Australis and it's this branch that will be merged into Aurora on December 10...

 

That holly branch will be dead at the end of Firefox 29 development.

Yeah, I figured I'd get some of the details wrong xD.

 

but yeah, tl;dr fx 28 nightly has australis, but fx 28 aurora-stable won't, and fx 29 should ride it out through all channels (if all goes well). :)

[Boo Berry]

Firefox 29 is looking good indeed. ;) Well, bad for those who hate Australis. :P

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Off the main thread compositing landed with D3D11 backend in Nightly..

http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2013/12/omtc-for-windows-nightly-users.html

[bawz]

http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/australis-styled-widgets-presentation/#comments

[bawz]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-win32/1386614507/ Hourlies been bumped to 29 

 

Release tracking https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking

[bawz]

 have they stopped doing the Holly Branch? there's no 29 Holly branch available 

[ViperAFK]

 have they stopped doing the Holly Branch? there's no 29 Holly branch available 

isn't the holly branch only for fox 28? its the branch that doesn't have australis, and 29 will have australis so it doesn't make sense that there would be a holly fx 29.

[bawz]

isn't the holly branch only for fox 28? its the branch that doesn't have australis, and 29 will have australis so it doesn't make sense that there would be a holly fx 29.

i was under the conclusion that it'd be still be going as Holly 29 from what shorlander said in the mozillazine forum last week i think it was.Holly would onlky be kept going for 28 an 29 untiull 29 got to Aurora then Holly Branch would be terminated 

[ViperAFK]

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/12/05/multi-process-firefox-go/

[primexx]

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/12/05/multi-process-firefox-go/

 

oh that part about addons... does that mean that old and rarely maintained addons will have to be updated for this?

[bawz]

i was under the conclusion that it'd be still be going as Holly 29 from what shorlander said in the mozillazine forum last week i think it was.Holly would onlky be kept going for 28 an 29 untiull 29 got to Aurora then Holly Branch would be terminated 

an i see Holly was an is updated to Firefox29  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-holly/

[ViperAFK]

oh that part about addons... does that mean that old and rarely maintained addons will have to be updated for this?

Probably, multiprocess is a pretty big change.