Firefox 70 released for Firefox Quantum: Developer Edition

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #45

SquareWheel wrote: post #25

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This is why I dislike these software posts without context. It's never clear if there's been an update or if the submitter just discovered them for the first time.

I really wish posts like this, and posts that are just random Wikipedia articles, would have a paragraph (or at least a sentence) from the submitter. Why is this interesting? For Wikipedia articles about people this is doubly important because the title is inevitably just the person's name - unless you already know who that person is there's no hint as to why they are significant.

Post by tester346 » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 1:12 PM UTC

raugustinus wrote: post #23

philliphaydon wrote: post #16

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Other than the web socket support in Chrome, the FF dev tools are a billion times better than Chrome now. I cannot work without the css layout overlays from FF dev tools. Makes working with grid layouts insanely easy.

While I mostly agree, I do switch to Chrome every once in a while when the javascript stacktrace in FFdev is a bit unclear. Chrome usually seems to be a bit better. But I always switch right back to FF.

Post by knd775 » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC

Kuinox wrote: post #59

maxheadroom wrote: post #43

Should the title have a (2017) at the end, since Quantum initially came out then[0,1]? (I understand it points to a current-version but it seems like, from the comments, it's being mistaken for having recently been released.) [0] - https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-bet... [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Firefo...

No, i'm using the developer edition and got the update only this morning. But I don't know if something have changed...

Post by gergles » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 1:20 PM UTC

dschep wrote: post #62

ptx wrote: post #5

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I think it's mainly a difference in configuration. The developer version, IIRC, allows you to install extensions on your own machine without seeking approval from Mozilla, but on the other hand it apparently subjects you to additional telemetry: > Firefox Developer Edition automatically sends feedback to Mozilla ... In addition to the data collection described in this Privacy Notice, these versions by default may sen…

> allows you to install extensions on your own machine without seeking approval from Mozilla Unless it changed quite recently, you can do this with normal Firefox builds too AFAIK

Post by sweeneyrod » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 1:27 PM UTC

Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #45

SquareWheel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I dislike these software posts without context. It's never clear if there's been an update or if the submitter just discovered them for the first time.

I really wish posts like this, and posts that are just random Wikipedia articles, would have a paragraph (or at least a sentence) from the submitter. Why is this interesting? For Wikipedia articles about people this is doubly important because the title is inevitably just the person's name - unless you already know who that person is there's no hint as to why they are significant.