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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Porn has to work on iPads.

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Stare-Out posted:

So, Twitter embeds. I know Twitter is a shitshow of a site and almost always if something's wrong it's Twitter's fault but how come embedded tweets show up perfectly fine and snappy on the iOS Awful App and Edge, but Firefox consistently struggles with them, to the point where one post might have a tweet loaded but right after in another post the same tweet never properly loads. What's up with that?

Twitter embeds trip a Firefox heuristic that decides they're unimportant garbage and hugely deprioritizes the page loads. (iirc, Firefox decides that hidden IFRAMEs aren't useful, and Twitter embeds start as hidden IFRAMEs before they finally load and get shown).

If you set the layout.oopif_activity_grace_period_ms pref to 64000 it'll load embedded tweets immediately.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Hidden IFRAMEs were also the XmlHttpRequest before XmlHttpReqeust.

Anyway, the heuristic has a fairly low timeout by default because that's correct on most web sites, the typical Twitter embed scenario is pseudo-journalism with like three embedded tweets. Something Awful presents a weird edge case where a single page can contain hundreds of tweets, which means hundreds of separate HTTP connections to the same site, and Firefox limits the total number of in-progress connections to a single site. So Tweets take a while to load because they're starved for allowed HTTP connections, and the long delay in loading the tweet trips the heuristic that decides they're not important and slows their load even further.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Once again Mozilla is using Firefox Studies to deploy malware.

Go to about:studies, click Remove next to Weather Suggestions.

Go to Settings, search for studies, uncheck "Allow Firefox to install and run studies"

I would've thought this dipshits learned their lesson from the Mr. Robot mess, but, no, of course not.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

that's because Windows 98 was almost perfect

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

What level of enshittification is it when you have to gently caress with the tab completion because you're legally obligated to tell your users you're selling their suggestions?

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Every single entry in your suggestions list has a ... widget on the right with the legally mandated warning link that's in the Tab order so now you have to press Tab twice as many times to navigate the list.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Chrome's DRM bollocks is called Web Environment Integrity.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Yeah, but Google can just look at the source code to the ad blockers and detect them accordingly.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Why? Those hypothetical absent users weren't seeing ads in the first place.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Apparently the five second delay was a timeout from them detecting your adblocker by attempting to play a fake ad.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Some sites do username and password in a multi-stage process across separate pages, Firefox can remember the password but not the username in those cases. You can manually edit the entry to add the username.

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

No, they mean how the new theme is low-contrast gray on gray on gray because everybody who knows anything about the actual science of GUIs has retired or died of old age and the current crop of UI/UX "designers" across the entire industry are know-nothing fad chasing idiots.

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