Firefox 106 Brings Improved WebRTC - Better Screen Sharing On Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 106 Brings Improved WebRTC - Better Screen Sharing On Wayland

Firefox 106.0 web browser release builds are now available ahead of the official Firefox 106 announcement on Tuesday. Firefox 106 does have improvements to its PDF viewer as well as the WebRTC communication support...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-106-Available

[uid313]

I miss a password toggle button for <input type="password" /> elements.

[treba]

Firefox finally following WebRCT upstream much closer is a very welcome development, especially given all the work in the pipe there, such as using portals and pipewire for camera/microphone access.

[bzs0]

Seems like Michael doesn't have Phoronix Premium

[marco-c]

Finally, I won't need to open PDFs in Draw for editing!

[stormcrow]

I miss a password toggle button for <input type="password" /> elements.

I really wish they'd integrate a hard block on the JS toggle that disallows paste into input boxes. That's effin annoying beyond words. Yes I know there's a reason why some do it, but it's useless because any bot will ignore that anyway so all it does is inconvenience people prudently using password managers.

[luno]

https://twitter.com/JanGrulich/statu...74160351588352 screensharing in wayland is still bad

[horizonbrave]

I really wish they'd integrate a hard block on the JS toggle that disallows paste into input boxes. That's effin annoying beyond words. Yes I know there's a reason why some do it, but it's useless because any bot will ignore that anyway so all it does is inconvenience people prudently using password managers.

I didn't understand where the problem is. Would you mind educating me on the subject?
Thanks

[birdie]

Seems like Michael doesn't have Phoronix Premium

1. You don't show your real Firefox window to complete strangers.
2. Michael needs to know what freeloaders are looking at. Ads are his lifeline.

What I find weird is that this screenshot is missing Firefox View which you see on a first run and need to disable manually.

[Danny3]

I wish they would at least activate the Wayland support automatically so we don't have to add each tome to some environment variables file code like:

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" == "wayland" ]; then
    export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
fi​

I understand that there are only 2 major desktop environments that support Wayland, but seriously, how hard is for them to implement something like this into Firefox itself and save the time of thousands of people that now have to search what the variable name and value is and in which config file to put it?
I find it even stranger now that they added touchpad gestures for Firefox even though Firefox doesn't activate Wayland automatically, how will that work?
Or they made it in a way that it works on X too?

As for the HTML5 support, I don't even want to start to talk about this...