Although its a minor thing, I'm personally delighted with drag & drop for the new tab tiles. These are the kind of little usability improvements that can tip the finely balanced scales between major browsers these days.
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#12> Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device’s camera, microphone, and location, while still allowing trusted websites to use these features Good. I get so tired of having to click that little [x] on the location prompt. However it's really just covering up a bigger issue, which is that the permissions prompts in Firefox and Chrome should be redesigned…
Yeah, why isn’t it one of those thin drop down bars at the top that can be closed? Have it go away after a certain number of seconds.
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#13"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.
Sites have been replacing the actual API request with a HTML5 overlay, precisely because of this - only when clicking "notify me" does the actual permission get requested, with the requisite dialog. (The rationale is "once the permission is denied, there's no way to bring it up again; a dismissed HTML5 box can be brought up again an infinite number of times") As for me, I went for WebAPI Manager, which blocks most of…
Good thing Firefox is working on that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574228
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#14Although its a minor thing, I'm personally delighted with drag & drop for the new tab tiles. These are the kind of little usability improvements that can tip the finely balanced scales between major browsers these days.
I am delighted too. You look at it and you felt as if the Drag and Drop should have been there in the first place.
I could only wish they allow 3 rows of Top Site ( without editing about:preference ), and an option to have Open All Top Sites in New Tab. Which is very useful since I check those site daily.
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#15Mozilla should also be focusing on RAM utilization. If they are doing that on the back end they should explicitly mention it in the update details.
They are doing that, with the whole Firefox Quantum thing. I see no need to mention less RAM utilization now given that they reference Quantum. These aren't meant as an advertisement, they are giving the changes since the last update, so there's nothing to say about it. These release notes aren't meant as advertisement.
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#16The article about "Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)"is an interesting read:
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/off-main-thread-...
Great to see so much effort being put into the fundamentals.
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#17A little OT, but how can I enable/use the Screenshots feature? I cannot find it.
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#18> Firefox Private Browsing Mode will remove path information from referrers to prevent cross-site tracking
Surprised this wasn't done yet.
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#19Looks like 'client side decorations' on Linux didn't make this release?
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#2059 is probably a bit of a less spectacula release than Quantum itself but the recent updates nonetheless bring me joy.
The "stop notifying me about permissions and just block it" is something I genuinely didn't know I wanted. Though I do hope (but will have to test later) if this also works for HTML Canvas since I use the additional anti fingerprinting.