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    Phoronix: Mozilla Firefox 53.0 Released, Drops Old Linux CPU Support

    Mozilla Firefox 53.0 has rolled out the door...

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  • #2
    Still no Wayland support, no Servo engine, no image pasting, no <input type="date", "datetime", "time", "week" or "month".

    Any more code written in Rust?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by uid313 View Post
      Still no Wayland support
      This is going to be the big one.

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      • #4
        To me, the biggest thing is the dark theme. It's nicely done and now Firefox doesn't look so alien on my dark desktop.

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        • #5
          And I am wondering why this (still) disabled:
          HW_COMPOSITING - blocked by default: Acceleration blocked by platform
          OPENGL_COMPOSITING - unavailable by default: Hardware compositing is disabled

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          • #6
            Originally posted by uid313 View Post
            Still no Wayland support
            ....
            In Fedora v25, Firefox can run under Wayland on GNOME (Wayland session).

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            • #7
              Originally posted by uid313 View Post
              Still no Wayland support, no Servo engine, no image pasting, no <input type="date", "datetime", "time", "week" or "month".

              Any more code written in Rust?
              not going to happen any time soon if ever.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by fedora-user View Post
                In Fedora v25, Firefox can run under Wayland on GNOME (Wayland session).
                Natively or via XWayland?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by uid313 View Post
                  Still no Wayland support, no Servo engine, no image pasting, no <input type="date", "datetime", "time", "week" or "month".

                  Any more code written in Rust?
                  Servo won't happen until Firefox 57 at the earliest. Why? Because they are giving extension makers time to switch to the new stable api for extensions. Until then, they can't do anything with the backend without breaking extensions.

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                  • #10
                    Not happy about all this obsoleting hardware that might still be okay and doing the job. And yes, there is HW from that area that is not power hungry like crazy. But if you want to operate a few things from the old HW and you have any network connection you'll want to have an up-to-date web client SW. Here you don't want to use old versions, not because they're old but for security reasons and because some of those overscripted websites won't work on older browsers.
                    Besides I wonder what the actual focus of Mozilla is now.
                    Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!

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