Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 74 Begins Rolling Out With DNS-Over-HTTPS, Disabling TLS 1.0/1.1

While we are very excited for Firefox 75 with Wayland and video acceleration improvements along with maturing Flatpak support, out today is Firefox 74.0 as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-74-Released

[treba]

As usually some nice improvements - as far as Linux is concerned, there are some Wayland improvements (proper startup notifications, so FF instantly shows up e.g. in the alt-tab switcher, DnD improvements, many more) and of course Webrender improvements. We are getting closer and closer for both to get enabled by default

From 75 up we'll also get experimental dmabuf support for hardware accelerated video and faster webgl on Wayland. From some testing in nightly I can say that the webgl part works super smoothly on my machine (very noticeable when e.g. using webgl based maps like google maps) while the video/vaapi stuff still has some issues.

[Britoid]

As usually some nice improvements - as far as Linux is concerned, there are some Wayland improvements (proper startup notifications, so FF instantly shows up e.g. in the alt-tab switcher, DnD improvements, many more) and of course Webrender improvements. We are getting closer and closer for both to get enabled by default

I'm on Firefox 76 beta right now and I've noticed the tab dragging issues under Wayland seem gone, so I would presume thats fixed in 74 too.

[L_A_G]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't DNS over SSL supposed to be on by default for people in U.S and something you have to turn on yourself everywhere else?

[Danny3]

How does Firefox browser know you are in the US or not ?
Do they actively check you IP adress to find your location ?
Do they phone home with your IP address for this to work ?


I'm asuming the executable you download from their website is the same for everybody in the world.

[Britoid]

How does Firefox browser know you are in the US or not ?
Do they actively check you IP adress to find your location ?
Do they phone home with your IP address for this to work ?


I'm asuming the executable you download from their website is the same for everybody in the world.

OS Locale / Timezone...

[treba]

I'm on Firefox 76 beta right now and I've noticed the tab dragging issues under Wayland seem gone, so I would presume thats fixed in 74 too.

Yep, that was all https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604048. Unfortunately it triggers a bug in GS 3.34.1 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620180) and Ubuntu is somewhat slow with updating (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?s...eywords=mutter). Well, I guess you shouldn't run the Wayland session on Ubuntu yet.

[Britoid]

Yep, that was all https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604048. Unfortunately it triggers a bug in GS 3.34.1 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620180) and Ubuntu is somewhat slow with updating (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?s...eywords=mutter). Well, I guess you shouldn't run the Wayland session on Ubuntu yet.

Holy, I knew Ubuntu was slower than Fedora but I didn't realize that much slower.

That's really inexcusable.

[TemplarGR]

Holy, I knew Ubuntu was slower than Fedora but I didn't realize that much slower.

That's really inexcusable.

That has always been the main reason why Ubuntu is garbage....

[Britoid]

That has always been the main reason why Ubuntu is garbage....

My main reason for not using Ubuntu was the creeping commercialization and I don't trust Canonical after the many avoidable fuck ups they do.