Firefox 79 Is Ready To Ship With Safeguard On "_blank" Links, More Wayland VA-API Work

[bug77]

Still does not build with latest Rust and Cargo :-/ Ever ganging modern stuff, ... well done :-/ https://youtu.be/LPFht5Sl-vE

Still linking you own videos and crying about the same spilt milk? Glad to see you're alive and well.

[rene]

Still linking you own videos and cry about the same spilt milk? Glad to see you're alive and well.

You think it is normal that nowadays everything is released in a broken, incompatible and ever changing state? I thought Rust was about stability, but apparently it is each time you build it break in new, creative ways. I thought the open source community was about creating a better software landscape than than the ever so broken stuff commercial companies brought to us, ... Btw. do you contrite to or build open source at all?

[sverris]

How well is VA-API working? Any tests on Wayland and X11?

[uid313]

You think it is normal that nowadays everything is released in a broken, incompatible and ever changing state? I thought Rust was about stability, but apparently it is each time you build it break in new, creative ways. I thought the open source community was about creating a better software landscape than than the ever so broken stuff commercial companies brought to us, ... Btw. do you contrite to or build open source at all?

With Rust it is difficult to get code to compile but once you get it to compile you can be reasonable sure that it works in the intended way. in C when you compile it often compiles but then it has problems at runtime.

The Rust compile is very strict to ensure that the code is robust and what it produces does not misbehave.

[ssokolow]

They should really remove that _blank crap completely.

If target="_blank" didn't exist, people would go back to using href="javascript:window.open(...)" or href="#" with window.open in a click handler, neither of which play nicely with things like middle-clicking and Firefox's about:config option to force attempts to open new windows/tabs to navigate the current tab unless middle-clicked.

It took a lot of evangelizing to get people off those bad approaches.

[pal666]

I thought Rust was about stability

fascinating

[rene]

With Rust it is difficult to get code to compile but once you get it to compile you can be reasonable sure that it works in the intended way. in C when you compile it often compiles but then it has problems at runtime.

The Rust compile is very strict to ensure that the code is robust and what it produces does not misbehave.

Thank you for the marketing speak, now getting back to reality, you realize it is exactly this Rust code in Firefox, the project the initiated and Rust was written for, does not compile? One would expect that at least the latest version of these flagship project are written in a way to be compatible and work together.

[uid313]

Thank you for the marketing speak, now getting back to reality, you realize it is exactly this Rust code in Firefox, the project the initiated and Rust was written for, does not compile? One would expect that at least the latest version of these flagship project are written in a way to be compatible and work together.

Newer versions of Rust can have improved interference to detect bugs and misbehavior that the earlier version of the compiler did not catch.

[johnp117]

Guys, just stop feeding the the YouTube clicks troll.

He could have easily reported it on Bugzilla/GitHub.

Edit: It was already fixed a week ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1640982
(on all branches, even on ESR68)

[rene]

yeah 20 year Open Source veteran a YT troll, it is also not fixed as it fails with the latest versions and the options mention in the bug report do not help either.