Friday, October 30, 2015

TenFourFox 38.4.0 available

TenFourFox 38.4.0 is now available for testing (release notes, downloads, hashes), just in time for you to surf on your iBook G4 while you aim your water cannon loaded with Tabasco sauce at juvenile delinquents craving candy. You know, as you do. Along with fixes for two crashes (most notoriously issue 308) and miscellaneous, this version, as promised, includes complete HTML5 MP3 audio support. To try it out, turn tenfourfox.mp3.enabled to true. If there are no major issues, it will be the default in 38.5.

As always, barring major issues, the browser will be released officially late Monday Pacific time, along with unveiling the new El Spoofistan design for the main page.

In other ecosystem news, I am incredibly delighted to see Tenfourbird 38.3 from our anonymous builder in the land of the Rising Sun, and it works great -- I use it for (appropriately enough) reading news.mozilla.org. Try it. You'll like it.

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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2015 at 12:01 PM

    I see that bookmark backups created manually are json (uncompressed) and work when used for restoring, but backups created automatically once a day in /bookmarkbackups are still .jsonlz4.

    Otherwise all fixes confirmed.

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    1. ClassicHasClassOctober 31, 2015 at 12:42 PM

      Shoot, I must have missed something. I don't consider that a showstopper (since we've shipped this problem for two releases already) but I'll try to find that gap if there's another respin.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 31, 2015 at 3:20 PM

    Looks like what's created in /bookmarkbackups is actually uncompressed .json (judging by the file size), but it's *named* .jsonlz4 and (therefore?) the browser doesn't process it. If I rename it to .json it just works.

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  3. rardinNovember 6, 2015 at 6:40 AM

    I wanted to add another hurrah! for Tenfourbird. I've been using it since 2012. It continues to be a very nice addition to the TFF family.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 6, 2015 at 3:09 PM

    About mp3 playback (Tender). Mp3 is generally functional in 38.4. Seeking works, too. However, not all mp3 files play (found several from my iTunes podcast library but don't see a pattern).

    The file in question from the blog mentioned on Tender plays neither in 38.3 nor 38.4.
    https://duskofdigital.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/strauven_151015_kino-legenden.mp3
    It's 128 kbps joint stereo with unknown encoder.

    If I re-encode this file with iTunes 10.6.3 as "Good Quality" (128 kpbs joint stereo), it still won't play. (Other mp3 files created with the same iTunes version do play, no matter which bitrate/VBR/joint/normal stero I use.) If I make an uncompressed aiff out of it, open that with another app (Sound Studio) and re-save it (which strips out all metadata) before re-encoding it to mp3 with iTunes, it plays fine. There must be something in the mp3 specs produced by the original encoder that minimp3 doesn't like and that survives direct re-encoding with iTunes.

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    1. ClassicHasClassNovember 8, 2015 at 5:22 PM

      I'm not sure what's wrong with it either. It's a 48kHz file, but other 48kHz MP3 files will play fine.

      There's probably some encoder on the margins of the standard that minimp3 is too strict to accept. That won't prevent me releasing it though, especially since we could get more data points that way.

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    2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2015 at 4:19 AM

      Well, both QuickTime and Audacity say it's 44.1 kHz. If it's really 48.0 kHz but declares itself as 44.1 (or the other way around) this may already be the problem.

      For testing with shorter, more managable files: Some (but not all) of the recent Skeptoid podcast episodes (encoded with iTunes 12.x) show the exact same problem.

      Bad: (ep.#488) http://tinyurl.com/q2jyq96
      Good: (ep.#490) http://tinyurl.com/o4p8atl

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  5. Miles RaymondNovember 7, 2015 at 11:18 PM

    Just curious if anyone else has a display issue with highlighting the 'new tab' button...

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  6. Miles RaymondNovember 7, 2015 at 11:20 PM

    On a side note: is there an easy way to enable the developer theme in TFF? (black interface with square tabs, etc)

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    1. ClassicHasClassNovember 8, 2015 at 5:19 PM

      Not that I know of, and I don't support it anyway. It's incredibly glitchy on OS X/ppc.

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    2. UnknownNovember 11, 2015 at 7:44 PM

      Any other recommendations for a simpler, faster tab style than the default?

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  7. kyleNovember 8, 2015 at 2:45 PM

    I know classilla isn't developed anymore, but could you knock up a byblos-whatever to filter out embedded youtube videos? Even simple pages these days like co crash my computer with huge downloads from s.ytimg or googleanalytics - and this is with all plugins not only disabled but actually deleted.

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    1. ClassicHasClassNovember 8, 2015 at 5:18 PM

      Classilla isn't developed as fast as it was in the past, but I still do work on it periodically -- ironically just a few days ago, as you can see from the github issues list.

      To be loading from the hosts you're mentioning sounds like you have JavaScript globally enabled, which I don't recommend. The steles deal with HTML, not scripts.

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