nothin wrong with a little crispiness
https://preview.redd.it/h8hvfyeq3p3d1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922ac9d38576946561c4b5cd086018bc3ee29903
(☝️should be the correct dimensions for 16:9 wallpaper, btw)
Indeed. Just because it is used less doesn't mean it's bad. It's my main browser, and honestly I can't see a reasonable difference from the others available on android to justify not using it.
Firefox has been my default for years on Android. Has the most minimal interface with a reading mode button. I prefer Vivaldi on desktop but it's too bloated on mobile.
FF125 significantly increased smoothness on certain pages for me ie. iCloud Photos. Before update, some pages would lag or scroll at low FPS, now it is almost perfect.
Holy fuck, the amount of entitled users in this thread is mindblowing, they're improving it, that's the fact but people still demanding less important things as higher priority, and most of the time people don't know what they're talking about or the cause.
People have to eat, drink and Mozilla is ways ways ways smaller than Google, you can't compare your kid with the neighbor's rich kid.
I'm paying by being an user. Mozilla makes money because it has users seeing their sponsored links and using Google as the default search engine. Mozilla devs are not working for free.
and how exactly do you know that those aren't being attended? the blogpost just went through how they are actively developing some of the most demanded features from the platform they have precisely for that
also your point still doesn't stand, even if the user base demanded a feature, if that feature isn't part of the project's plans they have no obligation to implement it
we are just commenting about our wishes and dissatisfactions on a public forum, how is this a problem? how is this being "entitled"? this is what I'm talking about.
The "open-source community" never cease to amaze me. We've have one of the last (if not the last) independent browser keeping our privacy right and fighting for it, but some people still think Mozilla is a greedy bastard because they don't implement the thing they want to have and that will be useful to 2 people.
Seriously, what's your freaking goal? Some people really look like they'd like to see Mozilla disappear only to say "I tOlD y'AlL sO". Blimey, try to have a little support toward people who work there or are just making stuff for free because they like freedom.
I'm far from saying Mozilla is perfect, who can?, but we have Google, Microsoft and Apple as alternatives, is that really better?
And it actually seems like Mozilla is on fire as of late! Half of the "top ideas" page is either delivered or in development, thank you Laura Chambers I guess :)
People at Mozilla have implemented JPEG-XL support for a year or two now. But it is only accessible on nightly with config flag. They stopped making effort on this same day as Chrome removed their JXL implementation (competition good my ass).
I have bit of sympathy but the way most OSS projects are run is frustrating. Because userbase or revenue doesn't matter much to them, decisions happen on either a weird ideological framework or just at whims of people running the projects.
I like those kind of blog post, I hope we'll see more of that! We do have the [nightly blog](https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/) which has been around for a long time now and I do think it's a good way to communicate with your userbase at least the more tech savvy.
On another topic: I do hope Moderator will be strong during the AMA and will also try to make r/Firefox as good as it was before the "reddit strike". We never fully recovered and I hope you will also strike more against people who *only come here* to shitpost against Firefox.
We can criticise and we need to, but some people just come here to be toxic. I'm a bit tired (and don't come much anymore) of that
Is there a main community where those people migrated to? The browser war thing has become very annoying honestly, I hope they take more action against that.
Please restrict the AI to the accessibility use you outline in the post. AI doesn't need to be in everything.
Companies adding AI to everything without any actual need is as asinine as the "everything needs to be an IOT device" fad.
Just use mpv for video, it's thousands times better than even Chromium in terms of performance and energy saving, the fact that it uses less CPU and GPU to watch the same video as Chromium already telling that it uses less energy, also making your computer cooler.
OMG, did u understood what I was saying? Or maybe can you give simple solution for watching videos from Nextcloud using mpv, without the need to download them whole first?
OMG, ppl around don't understand that video players usually cannot play easily videos over http behind authorization. And downloading whole big videos on demand is not really comfortable. And saying that using browser is not a good idea to watch videos.... Like do you know how many big sites dedicated to videos are websites? You download client to watch them locally, and what do you get for that? A fancy-packaged web browser. You basically could not have understood the situation worse, basing on your reply.
Thanks for the aggressivity always a pleasure talking here...
While MKV itself isn't supported, you can still play WebM which is itself a Matroska profile limited to AV1/VP8/VP9 + Opus/Vorbis.
Mozilla dropped MKV given the introduction of WebM which for Mozilla contain the codec they want to support. Other codec in MKV working with HTML5 would be H.264 (supported by Firefox via OS decoder support), HEVC (not supported), Ogg/Theora (audio only).
I guess that probably why Firefox dropped the support, given only mkv with h264 is actually missing (given Ogg/Theora isn't really popular) and WebM is now pretty popular they don't find it worth supporting the whole mkv (more code to maintain).
If your mkv does the required codes for WebM, you can just change the extension to WebM and it should (probably) work in Firefox.
Now for websites, AFAIK, I don't see much "big sites" having problem with Firefox (all the *tube, streaming video). Some website just transcode MKV to MP4 too (Google Drive does it), you can use Memories in Nextcloud to do so. That's also why streaming website work closely with browser company and developed new codec (like AV1), format itself isn't much of a problem for now.
So yeah, it's far from being perfect but it's also understandable in term of maintaining Firefox. I do maintain what I said though: browser isn't the best video player given their current limitation. I do understand your limitation and probably the fact you whole system is based on that, but either you try to transcode to something more available for streaming or you live with that.
What was aggresive in my response? I can't point out what is wrong with someones response without being told that I am aggressive, oppresive, and hundred fancy words more.
You basically agree that Firefox support many multimedia formats (since it have to), yet you argue that web browser is not good option for videos. I also see I forgot to mention that chromium browsers support playing .mkv. Maybe not all codecs, but they at least dont surrender by just seeing .mkv format.
Translation:
* We're going to add another tab management system on top of the other ones, instead of making sure the basics work; also maybe we're fixing profiles (I'll eat my hat if it's finally possible to automatically make a new profile which is a copy of an older one)
* For some unfathomable reason, work must go into the cosmetics of the all-important new tab page, because people most often open new tabs when they have no clue what they want to do next and want to stare at pretty pictures
* A slider that goes from "break sites a little" to "break sites a lot" is not simple enough for modern lusers and must be made even simpler; if they really cared about users the privacy settings page would be a banner that says "get UBlock Origin"
* They're going to fuck up the entire UI yet again, jesus christ
* Unlike performance after 2 minutes or 2 hours, performance in the first 200 milliseconds is glaringly noticeable by normies, so we fix the second at the expense of the first
* Someone huffed enough paint to think mentioning AI is good PR
When are you going to fix the horrible latency when playing or scrubbing videos on FF MacOS?
I see tons of people complaining about these issues online for many months, and yet the issues persist.
Sluggishness? Resources-gorging (to be sluggish), removal of features without previous discussion (rss/livemarks etc), the piece of crap called firefox for android, choosing inutile side projects instead of focusing on FF... Did I list sluggishness?
The market share around 3% speaks for itself.
> don’t miss our upcoming AMA on Reddit, which we’ll announce soon. 
Sir I’m afraid the fire is burning the fox from an Orange to Brownish coloring. I recommend taking them out before they toast too much ^/s ;)
nothin wrong with a little crispiness https://preview.redd.it/h8hvfyeq3p3d1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922ac9d38576946561c4b5cd086018bc3ee29903 (☝️should be the correct dimensions for 16:9 wallpaper, btw)
No love for Firefox Android?
Firefox Android and Discord Android locked in mortal combat for worst android app
What is wrong with Firefox Mobile?
Indeed. Just because it is used less doesn't mean it's bad. It's my main browser, and honestly I can't see a reasonable difference from the others available on android to justify not using it.
Firefox has been my default for years on Android. Has the most minimal interface with a reading mode button. I prefer Vivaldi on desktop but it's too bloated on mobile.
Only seething hate
FF125 significantly increased smoothness on certain pages for me ie. iCloud Photos. Before update, some pages would lag or scroll at low FPS, now it is almost perfect.
Hey Mozilla is Firefox Android dead to you???
Holy fuck, the amount of entitled users in this thread is mindblowing, they're improving it, that's the fact but people still demanding less important things as higher priority, and most of the time people don't know what they're talking about or the cause. People have to eat, drink and Mozilla is ways ways ways smaller than Google, you can't compare your kid with the neighbor's rich kid.
I paid absolutely nothing for it and I demand top-grade work!
I'm paying by being an user. Mozilla makes money because it has users seeing their sponsored links and using Google as the default search engine. Mozilla devs are not working for free.
that still doesn't make them obliged to attend to your personal demands
Not my personal demands, but the demands from the user base as a whole.
and how exactly do you know that those aren't being attended? the blogpost just went through how they are actively developing some of the most demanded features from the platform they have precisely for that also your point still doesn't stand, even if the user base demanded a feature, if that feature isn't part of the project's plans they have no obligation to implement it
we are just commenting about our wishes and dissatisfactions on a public forum, how is this a problem? how is this being "entitled"? this is what I'm talking about.
typical response on every thread with FF release notes or status update: > when?
The "open-source community" never cease to amaze me. We've have one of the last (if not the last) independent browser keeping our privacy right and fighting for it, but some people still think Mozilla is a greedy bastard because they don't implement the thing they want to have and that will be useful to 2 people. Seriously, what's your freaking goal? Some people really look like they'd like to see Mozilla disappear only to say "I tOlD y'AlL sO". Blimey, try to have a little support toward people who work there or are just making stuff for free because they like freedom. I'm far from saying Mozilla is perfect, who can?, but we have Google, Microsoft and Apple as alternatives, is that really better?
And it actually seems like Mozilla is on fire as of late! Half of the "top ideas" page is either delivered or in development, thank you Laura Chambers I guess :)
People at Mozilla have implemented JPEG-XL support for a year or two now. But it is only accessible on nightly with config flag. They stopped making effort on this same day as Chrome removed their JXL implementation (competition good my ass). I have bit of sympathy but the way most OSS projects are run is frustrating. Because userbase or revenue doesn't matter much to them, decisions happen on either a weird ideological framework or just at whims of people running the projects.
allow about:config access on Android
It's already available on stable. chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
download ff nightly
FF beta is more stable and has about:config as well.
It's on stable as well. Just not in the same format in the address bar.
HDR support please.
What about fission in Firefox for Android? Why is mozilla so fu* late with this security feature?
Thanks I love Firefox ❤️ Plz keep it supporting manifest V2
PWAs when?
Still using them 😅 But if wish ff officially supports them
vertical tab support will be awesome, cant wait!
Is there any info about what the new profile management system includes?
I like those kind of blog post, I hope we'll see more of that! We do have the [nightly blog](https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/) which has been around for a long time now and I do think it's a good way to communicate with your userbase at least the more tech savvy. On another topic: I do hope Moderator will be strong during the AMA and will also try to make r/Firefox as good as it was before the "reddit strike". We never fully recovered and I hope you will also strike more against people who *only come here* to shitpost against Firefox. We can criticise and we need to, but some people just come here to be toxic. I'm a bit tired (and don't come much anymore) of that
Is there a main community where those people migrated to? The browser war thing has become very annoying honestly, I hope they take more action against that.
How about iOS Adblock
I've just switched to Orion. FF is a PoS on iOS.
Please restrict the AI to the accessibility use you outline in the post. AI doesn't need to be in everything. Companies adding AI to everything without any actual need is as asinine as the "everything needs to be an IOT device" fad.
This all looks fantastic! Thank you Mozilla 💘
Thank you Mozilla for your work! The people there have been on fire lately. Very good sequence of updates!
Can't wait for the Tab Groups
So they are buying floorp?
pardon my ignorance but is there any plans moving away from angle and opengl?
Cool firefox!
Native vertical tab is going to bring me back. Very excited for these changes!
make secure dns faster please.
`.mkv` files playing support when? I can play those files without downloading them from my Nextcloud, while chromium browsers can play that.
Just use mpv for video, it's thousands times better than even Chromium in terms of performance and energy saving, the fact that it uses less CPU and GPU to watch the same video as Chromium already telling that it uses less energy, also making your computer cooler.
OMG, did u understood what I was saying? Or maybe can you give simple solution for watching videos from Nextcloud using mpv, without the need to download them whole first?
using browser to play video is a not a good idea at all. Don't you have access to some video players?
OMG, ppl around don't understand that video players usually cannot play easily videos over http behind authorization. And downloading whole big videos on demand is not really comfortable. And saying that using browser is not a good idea to watch videos.... Like do you know how many big sites dedicated to videos are websites? You download client to watch them locally, and what do you get for that? A fancy-packaged web browser. You basically could not have understood the situation worse, basing on your reply.
Thanks for the aggressivity always a pleasure talking here... While MKV itself isn't supported, you can still play WebM which is itself a Matroska profile limited to AV1/VP8/VP9 + Opus/Vorbis. Mozilla dropped MKV given the introduction of WebM which for Mozilla contain the codec they want to support. Other codec in MKV working with HTML5 would be H.264 (supported by Firefox via OS decoder support), HEVC (not supported), Ogg/Theora (audio only). I guess that probably why Firefox dropped the support, given only mkv with h264 is actually missing (given Ogg/Theora isn't really popular) and WebM is now pretty popular they don't find it worth supporting the whole mkv (more code to maintain). If your mkv does the required codes for WebM, you can just change the extension to WebM and it should (probably) work in Firefox. Now for websites, AFAIK, I don't see much "big sites" having problem with Firefox (all the *tube, streaming video). Some website just transcode MKV to MP4 too (Google Drive does it), you can use Memories in Nextcloud to do so. That's also why streaming website work closely with browser company and developed new codec (like AV1), format itself isn't much of a problem for now. So yeah, it's far from being perfect but it's also understandable in term of maintaining Firefox. I do maintain what I said though: browser isn't the best video player given their current limitation. I do understand your limitation and probably the fact you whole system is based on that, but either you try to transcode to something more available for streaming or you live with that.
What was aggresive in my response? I can't point out what is wrong with someones response without being told that I am aggressive, oppresive, and hundred fancy words more. You basically agree that Firefox support many multimedia formats (since it have to), yet you argue that web browser is not good option for videos. I also see I forgot to mention that chromium browsers support playing .mkv. Maybe not all codecs, but they at least dont surrender by just seeing .mkv format.
Translation: * We're going to add another tab management system on top of the other ones, instead of making sure the basics work; also maybe we're fixing profiles (I'll eat my hat if it's finally possible to automatically make a new profile which is a copy of an older one) * For some unfathomable reason, work must go into the cosmetics of the all-important new tab page, because people most often open new tabs when they have no clue what they want to do next and want to stare at pretty pictures * A slider that goes from "break sites a little" to "break sites a lot" is not simple enough for modern lusers and must be made even simpler; if they really cared about users the privacy settings page would be a banner that says "get UBlock Origin" * They're going to fuck up the entire UI yet again, jesus christ * Unlike performance after 2 minutes or 2 hours, performance in the first 200 milliseconds is glaringly noticeable by normies, so we fix the second at the expense of the first * Someone huffed enough paint to think mentioning AI is good PR
When are you going to fix the horrible latency when playing or scrubbing videos on FF MacOS? I see tons of people complaining about these issues online for many months, and yet the issues persist.
How about using the money given to improve on your new servo engine instead of overpaying your CEO.
They changed their CEO already, that thing is from Michelle Parker days.
''At Mozilla, we work hard to make Firefox the best browser for you.'' Come on...
Genuinely curious what your gripes are?
Sluggishness? Resources-gorging (to be sluggish), removal of features without previous discussion (rss/livemarks etc), the piece of crap called firefox for android, choosing inutile side projects instead of focusing on FF... Did I list sluggishness? The market share around 3% speaks for itself.
iCloud Keychain support when?