Firefox 99 Available With Strengthened Linux Sandbox, Web MIDI

[aufkrawall]

Did they fix the broken video hardware acceleration from version 98?

It now even doesn't work anymore with RDD sandboxing disabled via env var, so who knows when it will work again at all.

[abiswas]

It now even doesn't work anymore with RDD sandboxing disabled via env var, so who knows when it will work again at all.

Because of a bug probably.

[royce]

MIDI? What year is it?!

MIDI is still the standard for talking to musical instruments.

[royce]

It now even doesn't work anymore with RDD sandboxing disabled via env var, so who knows when it will work again at all.

I'm playing a vp9 video from youtube right now on FF 100b1 and it is hardware accelerated.

[bachchain]

I look forward to seeing what kind of fullscreen ad I get blasted with when I click update

[cynic]

Dude why have you not installed adblock or got Phoronix Premium, even that screenshot is painful to look at

best comment ever!

[uid313]

You can safely browse porn by running FF in a virtual machine.

Spinning up a full fledged virtual machine takes a lot of time, lots of system resources, the performance is worse, usability and user interaction is worse, because I have to interact with a browser inside the VM window. VM is an awkward solution. I would much rather have something sandboxed on my existing machine. Linux supports many things like Flatpak, Snap, LXD, namespaces, etc.

[curfew]

I suggest AdNauseam. It's based on uBlock Origin and includes a Click Ads setting that clicks on every single ad the site presents -- that gives the website ad revenue while also fighting fire with fire since clicking everything makes tracking just as futile as blocking everything.

As far as I know, that's the most ethical ad blocker due to having that setting...I haven't bothered looking for other ad blockers since someone suggested this one to me in a previous Phoronix thread months and months ago.

It will also increase your web traffic and make the browser run slower without you even realizing what is going on. The effort is probably pretty futile anyway as advertising companies can detect this kind of behavior and filter out scripted clicks if it makes sense business-wise. It also doesn't make your data any less valuable after that.

The worst-case scenario is the inflation of displaying ads and price per click going down to zero. (This is happening already anyway, though, based on what I read elsewhere.)

[cl333r]

MIDI is still the standard for talking to musical instruments.

I just have the impression MIDI to music is the same as an animated GIF to video.

[Snaipersky]

Spinning up a full fledged virtual machine takes a lot of time, lots of system resources, the performance is worse, usability and user interaction is worse, because I have to interact with a browser inside the VM window. VM is an awkward solution. I would much rather have something sandboxed on my existing machine. Linux supports many things like Flatpak, Snap, LXD, namespaces, etc.

I use bubblejail. Half step to flatpak, but works with things from your standard repos.