Firefox 104 Now Available With Minor Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 104 Now Available With Minor Improvements

Mozilla is ready to ship Firefox 104.0 this morning as the latest incremental improvement to this open-source, cross-platform web browser...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-104-Released

[CochainComplex]

Did I understood the line correctly it was up to mozilla to include subtitle support for Disney+ ? I though such things are programmed by the webapp coder?

[caligula]

Any improvements with the driver support? Va-api, Wayland, webGPU ?

[skeevy420]

Did I understood the line correctly it was up to mozilla to include subtitle support for Disney+ ? I though such things are programmed by the webapp coder?

It's a fix for Disney+ subtitles in Firefox's PIP mode/the minimize video button. You'd be surprised how many streaming features don't work correctly with its PIP. One that I notice is that the video progress slider on Hulu doesn't work in PIP mode.

[Yalok]

Congratulations on catching up with chrome release version 🎉

[marco-c]

Support for editing PDFs is only on Beta at the moment, not available in 104.

[Slartifartblast]

"Firefox 104 also adds subtitles for Disney+ picture-in-picture mode"

All it needs is a static title saying "Anything Disney now produces is utter crap".

[hamishmb]

Any improvements with the driver support? Va-api, Wayland, webGPU ?

I was hoping for VA-API to be activated with 103, but it seems it wasn't. Works absolutely fine on my 3rd gen i7 with h264ify though. I wonder if it could be enabled for specific hardware only (read: not nvidia).

[treba]

Any improvements with the driver support? Va-api, Wayland, webGPU ?

AFAIK nothing major, just a constant stream of bugfixes but nothing new turned on by default. 105 has some improvements on the ARM front, enabling HW rendering on a more devices (actually turning it on for all devices on Mesa >= 22.2), faster WebGL via dmabuf etc.

[M@GOid]

I was hoping for VA-API to be activated with 103, but it seems it wasn't. Works absolutely fine on my 3rd gen i7 with h264ify though. I wonder if it could be enabled for specific hardware only (read: not nvidia).

I had see it not work in a AMD A8 7600 APU. But that was a exception. It was funny see it working on a C50 APU on a netbook on Linux but not Windows.

The only problem I have with it now is AV1 support on YT. Works fine on Windows, but in Linux there is color artifacts. That on a RX6600 GPU. VP9 works like a dream, tough.