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barrowclift | 5 years ago

And still no movement on finally getting Bug 1178764 out the door, despite every other major browser supporting it. Nope, instead they'd rather faff about with the address bar to resounding universal disgust.

[Bug 1178764]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178765

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tinus_hn|5 years ago

Not sure what this has to do with ui changes. What do you think you are going to accomplish by whining about how a project providing free software is not prioritizing your pet feature request?

morsch|5 years ago

Well, evidently they implemented backdrop-filter about 8 months ago, but only for the new WebRender stack. And apparently they don't intend to implement it in legacy stacks.

So I guess your feature is tied to the support for WebRender. And that is pretty much limited to some Windows environments, if this article[1] is up-to-date. Both of the Firefox installs I checked don't seem to use it, Linux/X11/Ubuntu and Android (where it's apparently tied to e10s aka Electrolysis, which I could not tell if they even intend to implement for Android any time soon).

Kind of a mess...

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where

barrowclift|5 years ago

If nothing else, I really appreciate the summary, with all the comments and various threads on this it's a bit hard to follow exactly what the hold up is.

jcranmer|5 years ago

Funnily enough, that bug was fixed 8 months ago. Unless you actually meant 1178764 (not your link to 1178765), which was fixed 4 years ago.

negativegate|5 years ago

Fixed but it looks like it is still hiding behind a toggle on about:config.

Hamuko|5 years ago

That ticket is only five years old. Try again when it's old enough to drink.