updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[+Red King Subscriber²]

It begins?

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[ViperAFK]

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osx yosemite visual integration by the looks of it.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yep, "Behind Window Blending" as Apple calls it. The other version ("Within Window Blending" surprisingly enough) is harder to implement, as it's actually handled through CoreAnimation, which Firefox can't use (Due to how they render their UI), so either they'll have to re-implement it, or just decide it's not worth it.

Surprisingly, that's most of the foundation work they need to do for a Yosemite version of Australis (Tooltips, Context Menus and sub-pixel AA left), the rest is general UI polish and changes.

[Lamp0]

New Private Window content page following new simple design process:

 

I notice they have gotten rid of the gradient in the tab bar on Windows 8. Is that new?

 

That gradient really annoys me. It looks especially horrid if one is using a light or white colur on Windows 8 & I never found a way to remove it.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Pretty sure the gradient has been gone for a while, it's not in 31 that I can see.

[Lamp0]

Pretty sure the gradient has been gone for a while, it's not in 31 that I can see.

 

It's definatly still there for me in 31.

[Excelsis]

^Not there for me. Are you running 8 or 8.1? That might make a difference, although I don't see why it would.

[Lamp0]

^Not there for me. Are you running 8 or 8.1? That might make a difference, although I don't see why it would.

 

I am on 8.1

 

It's a very subtle gradient, but it's definatly there.

[Excelsis]

Oh, I thought you meant you were still getting the blue color. Did you mean the tab shadow? That is indeed gone in the nightly.

 

If you want to get rid of it you could put this in a User Style.

#TabsToolbar {
    background: transparent !important;
}

[Lamp0]

 

Oh, I thought you meant you were still getting the blue color. Did you mean the tab shadow? That is indeed gone in the nightly.

 

If you want to get rid of it you could put this in a User Style.

#TabsToolbar {
    background: transparent !important;
}

 

That's it! Thanks!

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Firefox 32 released and now Nightly builds are version 35.

[BooBerry]

We knew unicorns could bounce, but now they spin?!

 

HTTP/2 interop pains

[.stan]

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Shots fired :D

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Good thing he's not the CEO anymore then, nobody would want to run a multiprocess build of Firefox if it broke all addon compatibility.

Especially since even in the nightly builds people are complaining about broken addons and the proper way for multiprocess addons has been in since Firefox 4, it's just fixing addons to work with it, and making sure the system covers everything addons want.

[Max Norris]

Good thing he's not the CEO anymore then, nobody would want to run a multiprocess build of Firefox if it broke all addon compatibility.

Amen to that.. it's the addons that puts Firefox miles ahead of everybody else. (In my opinion.) If they pushed out a browser that broke compatibility with everything.. may as well put it in the miscellaneous pile. I'm all for multiple processes (it does help, Chrome proved that), but not at the expense of what made it good to begin with.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Oh, completely forgot to mention that tiled rendering on OS X and fixed H.264 playback (by disabling HW decoding) landed. H.264 decoding never worked on my Mac and would instantly crash, now I can play H.264 videos! (and it's kinda buggy because the OS X API is kinda odd, Windows doesn't have these issues)

Tiled rendering is very cool (Even if it currently doesn't offer many benefits), Chrome and Safari use a similar system, and it allows for smoother scrolling (Because it allows for pre-rendering outside the visible area, all scrolling there can be async and never touches the web content thread) and better multi-threading (Since each tile can be drawn to simultaneously)

I know some people have said all the FirefoxOS work is wasted effort or such, but this is an offshoot of that (Which itself is an offshoot of Firefox for Android/Metro Firefox). Firefox for Android currently runs a "single process multi-process" model, where the engine is run on a separate thread to the UI but in the same OS process, while with FirefoxOS everything is run in separate processes (So they've gone to a lot of effort to make sure that runs well with low memory overhead), and now all that work is feeding into the desktop builds.

[mancode20]

Anyone having an annoying issue with Firefox and latest Flash Player 32 Bit? When I right click on a video to get to the context menu, it crashes Flash. Using 33 Beta 1 now, but it happened with 32 as well. I think it's a recent Flash issue, cause I only had this bug with recent Flash. Could have something to do with that protected mode. Firefox and Flash always seem to have issues, but I don't think it was too much of a problem with Chrome/IE. Still prefer Firefox, though.

[dazhu]

Hi guys,

 

Anyone on Macbook with Retina Display? My firefox when fullscreen on flash, only shows a quarter of the screen. Any idea on how to fix it? Tried some of the fixes like disable hardware acceleration, but it does not work. only the settings to use low DPI works. but it makes my text and firefox blurry.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Anyone having an annoying issue with Firefox and latest Flash Player 32 Bit? When I right click on a video to get to the context menu, it crashes Flash. Using 33 Beta 1 now, but it happened with 32 as well. I think it's a recent Flash issue, cause I only had this bug with recent Flash. Could have something to do with that protected mode. Firefox and Flash always seem to have issues, but I don't think it was too much of a problem with Chrome/IE. Still prefer Firefox, though.

 

Flash 15 released today, I highly recommend you to try it as for Youtube in question if from video site you mean, recently Youtube switched to HTML5 by default so it could be also reason. Does Firefox crash in meanwhile, if Yes, from about:crashes, please post link to crash.

 

 

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Since now M35 train is just started, big bug will land for sure.

Some Highlights (from many old days to latest)

 

E10S (Electrolysis):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061995

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1053716

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1055753

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058164

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017914

Make DMD work properly with e10s - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061066

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961867

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048618

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059036

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058237

 

Dead Code Removal or Cleanup:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061992

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061994

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061538

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062076

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062469

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062064

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062715

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062719

 

OS X Tiling:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059033

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059622

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982338

 

JS:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060873

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062484

 

JS Engine Performance Improvements:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049840

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060359

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041688

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894596

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002473

 

JS Engine - SIMD Work:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060437

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060789

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050214

 

Mixed Content icon when loading SSL site - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046645

[MemShrink - P1] Leaking ghost windows in Mozilla Firefox - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061202

about:preference being blank in custom trunk builds - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061618

Cycle Collection improvement to improve Orphas nodes case in Remote Tabs - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058893

Sandboxed iframe regression - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051224

Toolbar and Customization relevant Performance improvement over Mozilla testsuite - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061947

Escape should be equivalent to Cancel in the "Firefox is already running..." dialog  - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060424

[bACKOUT] Findbar Australis UI polishing - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891258

Relevant to OMT and Async about:preference updating - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056170

Customization Mode bug on Dark Contrast themes - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061714

Plugins crash manager related - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061821 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060084

Turn on SSE fastpath for Image resizing - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054510

 

CSS / SVG Filters:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058756

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058809

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058794

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058798

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058801

 

 

OS X Yosemite:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060944

 

Vertical Writing relevant work:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061170

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

I can verify that accessing the flash settings menu definitely does ... something. On nightly the menu response is extremely slow and it completely locks up firefox until it's closed.

...same with stable release.

[Boo Berry]

You mean for example right clicking on a Flash video then accessing Flash's settings? Works instantaneous here in both stable and Nightly 64-bit.

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

oh wait, it's only doing it on twitch.tv ... less so on polaris. It seems to be a video player thing.

[mancode20]

Flash 15 released today, I highly recommend you to try it as for Youtube in question if from video site you mean, recently Youtube switched to HTML5 by default so it could be also reason. Does Firefox crash in meanwhile, if Yes, from about:crashes, please post link to crash.

 

 

---------------------------------

Since now M35 train is just started, big bug will land for sure.

Some Highlights (from many old days to latest)

 

E10S (Electrolysis):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061995

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1053716

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1055753

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058164

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017914

Make DMD work properly with e10s - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061066

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961867

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048618

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059036

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058237

 

Dead Code Removal or Cleanup:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061992

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061994

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061538

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062076

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062469

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062064

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062715

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062719

 

OS X Tiling:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059033

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059622

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982338

 

JS:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060873

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062484

 

JS Engine Performance Improvements:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049840

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060359

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041688

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894596

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002473

 

JS Engine - SIMD Work:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060437

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060789

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050214

 

Mixed Content icon when loading SSL site - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046645

[MemShrink - P1] Leaking ghost windows in Mozilla Firefox - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061202

about:preference being blank in custom trunk builds - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061618

Cycle Collection improvement to improve Orphas nodes case in Remote Tabs - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058893

Sandboxed iframe regression - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051224

Toolbar and Customization relevant Performance improvement over Mozilla testsuite - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061947

Escape should be equivalent to Cancel in the "Firefox is already running..." dialog  - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060424

[bACKOUT] Findbar Australis UI polishing - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891258

Relevant to OMT and Async about:preference updating - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056170

Customization Mode bug on Dark Contrast themes - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061714

Plugins crash manager related - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061821 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060084

Turn on SSE fastpath for Image resizing - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054510

 

CSS / SVG Filters:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058756

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058809

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058794

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058798

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058801

 

 

OS X Yosemite:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060944

 

Vertical Writing relevant work:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1061170

Yeah, I updated before I saw your post, but you are correct that the issue seems to be fixed with 15. How come the video stops playing when you right click on it? It used to be like that for awhile, but then a recent Flash version allowed the video to keep playing, and now it's back to the old way. I'd prefer the video to keep playing. Anyway to make that happen? Thanks for your reply!

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

It's not the default yet, but the latest nightly prompts you to enable multi-process tabs by default now (Instead of as a separate window).

Edit: That doesn't make much sense. What I mean is that by default tabs remain in process, but now it prompts you to enable multi-process tabs rather than needing to flip a config option.

[Boo Berry]

Also a new e10s toggle under Options > General too.