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Landed

Mostly performance boost

 

Smoother Scroll

  • Bug 894128 (windows scroll is not smooth) - new Intel driver from latest windows updates improves our rendering performance with Intel iGPU considerably - by ~x2-x3 factor (both with/without OMTC). Clearly visible and apparent at TART numbers, scrolling numbers, customize animation, etc. Posted some new info and measurements with the new driver.
  • Bug 1013262 (windows OMTC regressions) - was about to be dismissed with "we haven't heard users complaining", asked milan for some more explicit decision, he responded good enough (and without changing the course of action).

Newtab page speed & animations improvements

  • Bug 1019990 (newtab preload should also preload the content - to make the search bar and hopefully newtab in general to fully preload and therefore improve the visible glitch and tab animation) - feedback that Yahoo still flickers even with preload

 

 

Done

 

Fixes for memory consumption & Speed

  • Bug 1007723 - Telemetry (?) is causing a high memory consumption and lagging on browser startup - landed
  • Bug 936617 - Add talos regression test for "cold" startups - ready to deploy
  • Bug 1021128 - Data missing from main-thread I/O dashboard - job is running on local AWS machine
  • Bug 987728 - Avoid main-thread IO for {profile}\localstore.rdf - work in progress
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As mentioned before

Visualrefinements

  • Bug 1016087 - [uX] Visual Design for Loop MVP
  • Bug 1024741 - [uX] Style update for the notification bar
  • Bug 868622 - [uX] Implement the new Australis styling for the refresh/stop/go buttons
  • Bug 1014208 - Updated InContent Preferences Design Based on Project Chameleon (in progress)
  • Bug 1020551 - Design a OS X Yosemite friendly version of Firefox (in progress)

Judging from this bug landing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022856

 

I guess Firefox is going with Microsoft Bing Translator for other languages content translation..

 

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Meta Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752004

 

Mozilla devs are trying to build Windows build using clang rather than MSVC... Lets see who it progress...

 

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Broken NTLM v1 fix over TLS/SSL on non-Windows fixed finally - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1023748

 

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ES6 Harmony:Symbols - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645416

 

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"rebeccapurple" color support landed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024642

 

(Story about rebeccapurple - http://www.bram.us/2014/06/22/color-rebeccapurple/)

new tab changes and icons updates landed

  • landed: Bug 1019989 - ContentSearch should pass images as shared ArrayBuffers instead of data URI strings
  • landed: Bug 1019991 - about:newtab should lazily build its search panel popup
  • landed: Bug 1019990 - about:newtab preloader should load content.js
  • landed: Bug 1021110 - Icons in about:newtab's search panel should be high-res (2x DPI) on high-res displays
  • landed: Bug 1027303 - Certain image URIs in search plugins break ContentSearch
  • landed on m-c, Aurora, and Beta: Bug 1026298 - Add Wikipedia logo to search plugin so about:newtab can use it
  • landed on m-c, Aurora, and Beta: Bug 1026300 - Add Twitter logo to search plugin so about:newtab can use it
  • landed on Aurora and Beta: Bug 1013051 - "Comparable link missing required property: frecency" error showing up in console constantly
  • landed on Beta: Bug 1009299 - Add Yahoo logo to search plugin so about:newtab can use it
  • investigated: Bug 991328 - about:newtab: can "Select all" but not unselect (nor select by dragging)

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Broken NTLM v1 fix over TLS/SSL on non-Windows fixed finally - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1023748

 

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Ehh, it's not really a fix, more of a relaxation of a fix (NTLMv1 is broken, so Mozilla disabled it, turns out people were relying on it so as a compromise they enabled it for TLS connections, because running an insecure cipher over a secure connection is stupid, but still secure)

Complicating the issue is that on Windows, Firefox uses the OS libraries (So NTLMv2+), on OS X/Linux it tries to use system components (Which could be anything, or nothing), and if all that fails it falls back to the inbuilt NTLMv1 only library, that's what got disabled.

Ehh, it's not really a fix, more of a relaxation of a fix (NTLMv1 is broken, so Mozilla disabled it, turns out people were relying on it so as a compromise they enabled it for TLS connections, because running an insecure cipher over a secure connection is stupid, but still secure)

Complicating the issue is that on Windows, Firefox uses the OS libraries (So NTLMv2+), on OS X/Linux it tries to use system components (Which could be anything, or nothing), and if all that fails it falls back to the inbuilt NTLMv1 only library, that's what got disabled.

 

Thanks for explanation... Appreciated...

So, with Youtube announcing (and demonstrating) 60 FPS videos on their website, when can we expect Mozilla to fix their shoddy Flash support?

TwitchTV has supported 60FPS for quite a while now and it has always dropped a bunch of frames. If you move your cursor over the video it makes it struggle to even maintain 30 FPS, let alone 60.

Same for OneDrive's web video player. And now with Youtube's 60 FPS videos, it's almost dropping 50% of frames, negating the bump in frame rate.

 

And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one as others have mentioned the same issue of dropping frames on the comment section of Youtube's 60 FPS videos that were posted.

 

Here's one of the videos for anyone interested, by the way.

YouTube requires Media Source Extensions for the high quality options, it's currently only enabled for specific formats in Firefox.

The video posted before drops frames on both my Mac and PC (Even though the PC is vastly more powerful), Flash wasn't even using hardware rendering on my PC, and even in full screen mode (Where it bypasses Firefox completely) it was dropping frames, Flash is just odd.

Firefox itself has no issue playing 60fps video, not a single dropped frame on my PC.

Tried that video and saw frames dropped with Flash @ 1080p. Switched to HTML5 in YouTube Center Settings to test and had only 720p option for the video.

Anyone familiar with YouTube Center and knows what to do to get 1080p option in HTML5 player?

 

With Chrome you can put it @1080, so i guess its Firefox problem

What ever it is called, it's def. a problem on Firefox. I thought it's a problem with YouTube Center (you need to enable dash playback there if you want 1080p option on youtube even with Flash), but it's not. Even with disabling YouTube Center and turning on HTML5 from YouTube; there's still no option for 1080p in the HTML5 player.

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