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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by quesera »

bobthebuilders wrote: post #110
quesera wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're both condescending and incorrect. Bad combination! Zero websites automatically get JavaScript access from me, and many other savvy web users. If PDFs are not subject to these same controls in Firefox, then this could be a security and privacy vulnerability.

PDF is required for JS to run due to code generation in the PDF rendering pipeline facility.

Right, so the question becomes: "What controls are in place?"

Does the JS run in a true sandbox? Inside, outside, or beside the usual browser sandbox? Are network requests allowed? Filesystem access? Are granular permissions required/available?

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by MrRadar »

Evidlo wrote: post #95

Does Firefox not import profiles from old versions? I upgraded 85->88 and got the message "this installation has a new profile" and am missing all my history, bookmarks and addons.

It should import from the previous release, so try reverting to 85 and upgrading through the intermediate versions.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by detritus »

keeganjw wrote: post #46

Side note: I don't know how often this happens but it's kinda cool that Firefox went straight from 87.0 to 88.0 without any sub-versions. They didn't seem to have any security/bug patches, they just got it right on the first try.

Perhaps in the olden days when various releases were somewhat fundamental in nature - not sure it's quite so impressive when we've had 3 'major' releases this year already

Not that I much care - FF4Lyfe here!

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by dsego »

Evidlo wrote: post #95

Does Firefox not import profiles from old versions? I upgraded 85->88 and got the message "this installation has a new profile" and am missing all my history, bookmarks and addons.

Is this update why I got the 'Refresh or safe mode' dialog? I foolishly clicked and now I'm trying to restore stuff from the 'Old Firefox data' directory. This was not nice, I started thinking I was getting hacked. Esp. when it asked me for the master password five times in a row. Man is this browser rough.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by andrepd »

childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

Yes, I can't believe Firefox is still using a 15 years old bookmark/history dialog with atrocious UI. Completely unusable for anything but the most superficial inspection of your browsing history.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jfb »

jhauris wrote: post #104
danudey wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back when I started playing D&D again, some friends stumbled across a PDF of "MPMB's character sheet" or something. Basically, it was a PDF full of scripting and options and such, that let you: * Choose which content you wanted to use (i.e. content from which sources) * Choose which rules you wanted to use (in case you wanted to use optional rules) * Choose your class, race, and background, and handle them appropriat…

The same capability is on the web at D&D Beyond: https://www.dndbeyond.com/

Or at roll20.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by noisem4ker »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #96
cpeterso wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is still a "Take Screenshot" menu item in the context menu when you right-click on a web page.

Unless the context menu is not available, that is.

When is the context menu not be available? If the website is overriding the right click action, keep shift pressed while clicking to gain back control.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by tristan957 »

DangerousPie wrote: post #9

I can see why they are doing it but I'll really miss FTP support. A lot of public data continuous to be distributed through FTPs and for a long time Firefox has been the easiest way to browse them.

You can use cURL to access FTP sites fyi.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by mdoms »

curt15 wrote: post #27

>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.

On the one hand yes that's great. On the other hand it's not an exaggeration to say that a decade ago would have been too late for this feature.
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