Firefox 124 Now Available With Screen Wake Lock API

[jeisom]

Every 2 weeks + additional bug fixes inbetween. It certainly was much better when they had their sane versioning and not just made releases for the sake of releases, but sadly its also the smallest of Mozillas problems.

Oh, I missed that. I don't think this is going to be good for piece of mind in regards to security. It is was 123.0 then 123.1, then 124 at the same pacing, I'd feel better about it. I know they are just numbers, but presentation can be important.

[jeisom]

Hm, I feel like this was already used in the past when watching videos for example?

I think this is for the web pages themselves. Firefox obviously prevents dimming/locking with videos prior.

edit:
This would probably be for situations like online games that use a controller as the controller often times doesn't register in regards to screen locking or say a F1 track status page that has radio feeds and car location data would be good examples.

[clippy]

Does anyone know why I have hardware acceleration on YouTube but not on Netflix?

Might be that Netflix uses a different video codec than YT, which your system does not support. If that's not the case, it is probably Widevine DRM that is throwing a spanner in the works.

[leebickmtu]

The wakeLock support was removed from the final 124 release due to some bugs and potential security issues.
Removal from 124 and adding it back into 125 betas was completed in this ticket.

[chithanh]

For real?

Yeah, they are finally taking Android x86 and Orange Pi users into account.

Not only that, Android 10 and newer have a desktop mode for devices which support external displays (which are mostly high-end smartphones). You can use it with LineageOS and it works reasonably well since LineageOS 21 (Android 14), but you have to enable it manually in the settings.

[Schugy]

Good to know there is a feature complete API now but I'm already happy the way it works in Plasma/Wayland sessions.

[pong]

I think this is for the web pages themselves. Firefox obviously prevents dimming/locking with videos prior.

edit:
This would probably be for situations like online games that use a controller as the controller often times doesn't register in regards to screen locking or say a F1 track status page that has radio feeds and car location data would be good examples.

Great another annoyance to turn off on every site that tries to control my browser.