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Originally posted by nanonyme View Post
You mean it's not? Release notes seemed to imply this release would enable it. Of course, you probably need gstreamer with relevant codecs anyway...
Gstreamer works with the occasional bug depending on your graphic card HW. But that is not a firefox or gstreamer problem.
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostAlso, there's the whole "Mozilla is fucking everything up" part. Requiring signed addons? Removing your Add-on SDK in favor of Chrome's extension API??
The powerful addons are literally the reason 50% of your userbase use your browser...
With signed add-ons by default they make it harder for people to install malicious add-ons. With the Chrome extension API they get two wins (Edit: oops, evidently I can't count.):
1. The attack surface of potential security flaws that malicious add-ons can exploit is much smaller.
2. The selection of add-ons in the Chrome web store is growing rapidly and Chrome OS is gaining sales. By using the same extension API, Firefox can now better position itself as a Chrome alternative for people using Desktop Chrome and add-ons and even as a Chrome OS alternative.
3. If you still want unsigned add-ons you can get the developer edition or nightly builds.
Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostAll that being said, the Mozilla sponsored Servo engine is coming along pretty well and that's gonna be amazing when it arrives.
I find that Firefox actually well enough for me with dozens of tabs... for about two days. Then everything goes to hell - runaway memory usage, hangs with CPU pegged at 100% for 30 seconds at a time, crashes. I actually run Firefox Nightly because it automatically restarts itself once per day to apply updates. That keeps it working fine for me, but it's a pretty ridiculous workaround.
Servo is supposed to greatly speed page load times while reducing memory use, and hopefully it also fixes some of the stability problems.Last edited by Michael_S; 04 November 2015, 04:03 PM.
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostFirefox w/ Gecko is dead to me. I think Firefox's UI and customization is leagues ahead of any other browser, but even with e10s the responsiveness is slower than I'd like (especially on a 6-core, 8GB ram machine...).
Also, there's the whole "Mozilla is fucking everything up" part. Requiring signed addons? Removing your Add-on SDK in favor of Chrome's extension API??
The powerful addons are literally the reason 50% of your userbase use your browser...
All that being said, the Mozilla sponsored Servo engine is coming along pretty well and that's gonna be amazing when it arrives.
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