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Firefox 72 Released With Picture-In-Picture Video Support Working On Linux
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Originally posted by brainlet_pedersonFirefox is a completely dead browser. Their market share is in the single digits now. It just goes to show -- you can't just hire dozens of blue-haired SJWs into software engineering roles and hope they'll produce quality work. Especially not when you're competing with Google.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View PostThe problem with that is that Google is overran with SJWs as well, so your argument makes little sense.
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Originally posted by DanL View Post
The problem is not the evil, evil, SJW boogey(wo)men as you'd like to believe, but the problem is that Google and Mozilla just point their fingers to the assortment of video decode API's and drivers on Linux like they can't pick one or more and receive bug reports about them, even hidden behind a white/blacklist flag. They don't even try.
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Originally posted by xpris View Post
How you can use hardware decoding if Firefox on Linux still not support it? Or maybe you taking on layers?Code:layers.acceleration.force-enabled
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Originally posted by brainlet_pederson
It makes perfect sense. They've been hiring based on diversity quotas and Adversity Olympics instead of technical excellence. Their downward spiral into irrelevance is a classic example of what happens to a company when they fill their ranks with mediocre SJWs.
OK, I am not going to discuss about this anymore for now.
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Originally posted by brainlet_pederson
That's true, but Google is a much bigger company, where it's easier for the competent people to pick up the slack created by diversity hires...
Google also has piles of cash to burn, whereas Mozilla is a one-product shop whose one product is becoming irrelevant. It won't be long before one of the Android bloatware browsers has a bigger market share than Firefox...
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Originally posted by treba View PostApart from the not-yet-existing hardware decoding on Linux, the Webrender issue for this is AFAIK https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579235
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Originally posted by hax0r View PostYes I enable:Code:layers.acceleration.force-enabled
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Perhaps the reason hiring programs aimed at anything but competence are allowed to keep going is that the real competence is on its way out anyway. We need Gecko to keep WebKit somewhat at bay, but now Gecko is eating memory like crazy anyway. There used to be Presto and Trident as well but they got killed in favor of WebKit. All we have left now for graphical browser engines are WebKit flavors, Gecko, KHTML on life support and Links2.
Turns out we need diversity in browser engines, not competence. Since everything is turning into JavaScript kludge now anyways it's only a matter of time before WebKit really does become an operating system. Too bad it's what GNOME and Google wanted anyway.
Not surprising since JavaScript is a garbage-oriented language with the learning curve of a stapler. We need to introduce C as a minimum bar for what qualifies as a professional programmer, perhaps then shooting yourself in the foot will start hurting again instead of causing a barely noticable performance regression on a workstation.
But hey, as long as everyone can feel like they're contributing hot ideas to the dumpster fire there's no reason for them to ever get out of their comfort zone, right?
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