Firefox 113.0 released

Posted May 9, 2023 17:06 UTC (Tue) by bartoc (guest, #124262)
In reply to: Firefox 113.0 released by flussence
Parent article: Firefox 113.0 released

Idk, it might be a problem if it's more (compression) efficient than whatever it's replacing then you get to spend less power on the radios, so I could see some wins.

Firefox 113.0 released

Posted May 9, 2023 19:13 UTC (Tue) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link] (2 responses)

Also, wasn't one of the motivations behind AVIF/AVIS to piggyback on AV1, getting, among other benefits, HW acceleration?

Firefox 113.0 released

Posted May 10, 2023 4:11 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

For those bleeding-edge enough to have such a thing; 99% of that hardware support is (still) only in high-end desktop GPUs and luxury phones. The accursed "gifv" plague on most social media is entirely H264-based for that reason.

Stuffing a video codec into an <img> tag also does an end run around the user's "do not autoplay" setting, because Mozilla for the past 25 years has led the charge on deciding annoying animations should have neither a pause button nor an API to allow anyone else to add one.

Firefox 113.0 released

Posted May 10, 2023 8:55 UTC (Wed) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850) [Link]

> Mozilla for the past 25 years has led the charge on deciding annoying animations should have neither a pause button nor an API to allow anyone else to add one.

Once upon a time (definitely less than 25 years ago), it used to be that you could stop animated GIFs by hitting ESC. Alas, no more. But approximately no one seems to actually use real GIFs any more, so disabling video autoplay actually works for now. Let's hope it stays that way and websites won't go back to stuffing faux-videos into images.