Firefox 63 Beta On Linux Finally Runs WebExtensions In Their Own Process

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 63 Beta On Linux Finally Runs WebExtensions In Their Own Process

With Firefox 62.0 having shipped, Mozilla promoted Firefox 63.0 to beta as part of their usual release cadence...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-63-Beta-Released

[gQuigs]

FYI, Google Hangouts/Meet is currently broken. Apparently Google needs to fix:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488818

[davidbepo]

and here i am running waterfox (fork of firefox 56 with security patches and more) because of how much i like australis and how much i hate photon

[cl333r]

The build infrastructure of Firefox on Windows moved to the Clang tool chain, bringing important performance gains

From what? Mingw?

[TheCanadianBacon]

From what? Mingw?

On Windows they typically use visual studio.

[ssokolow]

and here i am running waterfox (fork of firefox 56 with security patches and more) because of how much i like australis and how much i hate photon

Have you considered one of the userChrome.css hack-packs which restyles it back to looking like Australis?

[cb88]

and here i am running waterfox (fork of firefox 56 with security patches and more) because of how much i like australis and how much i hate photon

https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis

Recent firefox has some significant performance improvements... probably worth a try to get back on stock firefox.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

WebRender is still available only in nightly?

[brrrrttttt]

From what? Mingw?

They switched from MSVC to clang-cl (a front-end that emulates MSVC's cl) [1].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!...rm/wwO48xXFx0A

[uid313]

Recently Firefox got some nice features such as clearing cookies and site data from the address bar.

Things I still miss in Firefox:

• Server-Sent Events (SSE) debugging in developer tools.
• WebSocket debugging in developer tools.
• Input elements with type datetime-local, month and week.
• Color emoji on Linux.
• Toggle password visibility on input type password elements.
• Wayland support.
• Support for the <dialog> element.
• Support for system-ui font.