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Mozilla adds -webkit prefix emulation to select sites in Firefox

 

 

The emulation is hardcoded into Firefox 39 which means that it will only work on a list of sites that Mozilla added to it specifically.

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Thanks Webkit. /s
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    fixed in 40, uplift requested
1158281 - Match Pocket's Reader View Sepia Theme
    fixed in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38.
1158294 - Increase Reader Views Default Type Size
    fixed in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38.
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1149520 - Reader mode toolbar repaints during font size change
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1149649 - Design Polish Updates for the Reader View Footer
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1148762 - Reading List causes scroll bar to flash when opening sidebar
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1149261 - Improve the Reader View Close Button
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1147444 - Improve the transition when deleting an item from the Reading List
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1147440 - Improve the transition of the Add to Reading List URL Button
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1147479 - Improve the transition when adding an item from the Reading List
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1137211 - Font panel should disappear when clicking margins
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1145809 - reader view footer area
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1148050 - Type Control Visual Improvements
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1132656 - Toolbar overlaps content in narrow windows
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1149277 - Increase the Line-Height in Reader View from 1.44 rem to 1.6 rem
    FIXED in 40, uplifted to 39 and 38
1147889 - need transition when switching between light-dark-sepia
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1137556 - Make the ReadingList sidebar look like other sidebars
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1146946 - TypeError: this.selectedItem is null from sidebar.js when using the up/down key when the list is empty.
    FIXED in 38
1150225 - Mouse cursor sticks to previous appearance from sidebar when over Reader View
    Toolkit-level bug, unlikely to be fixed by us.
    But, FIXED in 40.  \o/
1149073 - Transitioning the Font Size when changing Style in Reader View
    WONTFIX - too janky on low end machines.

Thanks Webkit. /s

Funny thing is, when Microsoft first floated the idea of other engines parsing -webkit- CSS gunk, Apple was against it, worried they'd then have to support quirks in how other browsers parsed it.

Luckily for Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla actually care abut keeping their engines up to date and fixing bugs, so any parsing quirks will remain with WebKit.

You can disable DRM support in the normal version, this build is special in that it's disabled at compile time, and the resulting support code isn't in the binary, so these builds can't even have it enabled at a later date without re-installing a normal version.

Edit: Quite a niche market though, due to how Mozilla has enabled the DRM modules to work all their code is completely open source, and can still be shipped with Linux distros (Even with DRM disabled by default). And considering how people actually liked when Google shipped their DRM support in Chrome for Linux, I doubt many people will complain.

You can disable DRM support in the normal version, this build is special in that it's disabled at compile time, and the resulting support code isn't in the binary, so these builds can't even have it enabled at a later date without re-installing a normal version.

Edit: Quite a niche market though, due to how Mozilla has enabled the DRM modules to work all their code is completely open source, and can still be shipped with Linux distros (Even with DRM disabled by default). And considering how people actually liked when Google shipped their DRM support in Chrome for Linux, I doubt many people will complain.

Yeah, I know, it is stated in the article that it is an option as well. These builds are programmed not to retrieve Adobe DRM player at all.

It requires the content provider to support the DRM first, and even then I think the client side support is still limited to YouTube playback.

Clues for the clueless: Why would Firefox be putting DRM support in it's browser? Who would want it?

Apparently everybody, Microsoft and Google pushed for the W3C to accept it, and Apple implemented support for it in Yosemite. And since Netflix required it, people were upset that Chrome didn't support it under Linux, something which has "recently" (last year) been fixed.

It's not something they wanted to do, but since users/sites/competitors wanted it there wasn't much they could do to stop it. At least they heavily sandbox the plugin from the system to prevent it doing anything odd.

Edit: And DRM support is limited to MSE video playback, something which is still limited to YouTube only because of some pretty big limitations in the support Firefox provides (exactly enough for YouTube to work and that's it).

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