Re: Proposal: remove support for running desktop Firefox in single-process mode (e10s disabled) anywhere but in tests

2020-06-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:13 PM James Teh wrote: > In general, this obviously makes a lot of sense. However, because there is > so much extra complication for accessibility when e10s is enabled, I find > myself disabling e10s in local opt/debug builds to isolate problems to the > core a11y engine

Plan to move macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users to ESR78

2020-06-12 Thread Romain Testard
Hello All, *tl;dr: We plan on moving macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users to ESR78 as part of the first step towards end of support for these platform versions. *Goal* Continue to provide an excellent browsing experience and ongoing security updates to macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users and reduce

Please don't use locale-dependent C standard library functions (was: Re: Please don't use functions from ctype.h and strings.h)

2020-06-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
This is an occasional re-reminder that anything in the C standard library that is locale-sensitive is fundamentally broken and should not be used. Today's example is strerr(), which returns a string that is meant to be rendered to the user, but the string isn't guaranteed to be UTF-8. On Mon, Aug

Re: Intent To Ship: backdrop-filter

2020-06-12 Thread Sean Voisen
Thanks David and Martin for the feedback on this proposal. I'll try to address the various questions and concerns below: To that end, is there a plan for making this capability uniformly available? > We don't have any plans to implement backdrop-filter on other graphics backends. This property ha

Re: Intent To Ship: backdrop-filter

2020-06-12 Thread Bobby Holley
One other note: I don't think we should be too concerned about the specific multiple-graphics-backends situation arising frequently in the future. The goal is to have a single backend (WebRender) going forward, and last I checked the plan was to completely drop all other backends within the next 12

Re: Please don't use locale-dependent C standard library functions (was: Re: Please don't use functions from ctype.h and strings.h)

2020-06-12 Thread Jeff Gilbert
It would be great to have CI linting for these! On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:19 AM Henri Sivonen wrote: > > This is an occasional re-reminder that anything in the C standard > library that is locale-sensitive is fundamentally broken and should > not be used. > > Today's example is strerr(), which re