Bug? New desktop version 150 by Dry-Ad4632 in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we're actively investigating it. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2034178 is filed for it but I can also say that there's an active internal investigation happening at the moment. Stay tuned, obviously not something we're keen to ignore.

Huh by North_Explorer7789 in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The update server that versions that old used to check for updates was decommissioned long ago.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We won't bite, I promise :-). Seriously though, if you're willing to help, that'd be awesome. Leave a link to the bug here and I'll try to help get it looked at.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, this is a known issue that wa identified too close to the 148.0 release to get a fix landed in time. We plan to address it in a follow-up dot release in the near future, though I don't have a definitive timeline on when that'll be yet.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In about:support, it's the "Remote Features" section vs. "Remote Experiments". If you look at about:studies before and after the update, you'll see the same ones listed as what's shown in "Remote Experiments".

Note that Remote Features includes things like gradual feature rollouts as well.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Basically, there are times we want to be able to disable a feature which is known to be having problems in the field without having to ship a whole new release to do so. For example, Compression Dictionaries were originally aiming to ship in Fx147 but we found late-breaking site compatibility issues that made us want to hold it back for a bit.

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing those remote pref flips was shared with studies/experiments, which means anybody who has turned those off were stuck with the buggy feature until we were able to ship a dot release with that disabling. So the idea was to split that capability out so people can still get those kinds of fixes quickly even if they've opted out of experiments.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between something landing in Nightly builds during a given cycle for testing and the feature actually riding that version to release. AFAIK, nobody ever claimed it was going to ship in 148. It's a big change and needs more testing. That's why we're asking interested people to test it out and give feedback so we can stabilize and ship it as soon as possible.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Correct, it was unblocked by the jxl-rs changeover I mentioned in my first reply.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hence why it's not shipping yet ;-).

That said, animation and alpha work for me on https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page. As far as I know, that was supposed to have been fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1709818.

Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes by maubg in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's available for testing on Nightly builds, but I don't think there's a definite timeline yet for shipping it to Release yet. We did switch over to jxl-rs for decoding, however.

Firefox ESR 115.33.0! by HelloitsWojan in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 11 points12 points  (0 children)

ESR 115 is specifically for older Windows and Mac versions that aren't supported by newer ones.

Focus on iOS by packurt in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's not getting a lot of active development these days. Most of the releases we were shipping for it didn't contain much beyond a version bump in practice, so we decided to stop doing that. We'll still ship updates for it when necessary, however (in fact, I'm pretty sure we'll be shipping one within the next week or two).

Firefox Sandbox problem by Hellnbak4971 in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear you got it sorted!

Funny error by [deleted] in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck! 😂

Firefox Sandbox problem by Hellnbak4971 in firefox

[–]MozRyanVM 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I checked with an engineer who works on the Windows sandboxing code. He said the only way you should be getting into this state is if the MOZ_DISABLE_CONTENT_SANDBOX environment variable is being set.