The new notification request behavior is great (speech bubble in URL bar, instead of a popup https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/block-notification-requests...). Much better than the ubiquitous popup asking if a site could give you popups...
Firefox 72.0
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Re: Firefox 72.0
#12Interestingly the beta for 73.0 [1] includes NextDNS as a second choice for DNS over HTTPS providers as well as Cloudflare.
[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0beta/releasenotes/
Re: Firefox 72.0
#13What's the criteria for FF bumping its major versions? Looks to me like these release announcements are getting much more frequent. Edit: Answered by zamadatix.
And the changelog shorter and shorter. Not only can't they catch up, but the feature gap keeps increasing.
Compared to Chrome you mean?
Re: Firefox 72.0
#14The picture in picture is such a great feature. Thanks Firefox devs :)
Agreed. I use it all the time. There is an issue where the video in the pop-up can be slightly "laggy" for some reason, not sure why that is. Otherwise great feature.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#15After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…
Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.
I think Firefox is better in some areas, especially their CSS grid viewer. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto... I'm also keen to checkout the new Replay feature. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
Re: Firefox 72.0
#16I use the Brave browser now, and I have no interest in going back to Firefox or Chrome at this point.
Re: Firefox 72.0
#17It doesn't seem like you can set the pip window to be sticky across all desktops. That's unfortunate and a bit unusable
What is the pip window?
Re: Firefox 72.0
#18I use the Brave browser now, and I have no interest in going back to Firefox or Chrome at this point.
Care to elaborate why?
Re: Firefox 72.0
#19What's the criteria for FF bumping its major versions? Looks to me like these release announcements are getting much more frequent. Edit: Answered by zamadatix.
And the changelog shorter and shorter. Not only can't they catch up, but the feature gap keeps increasing.
It's also good marketing for regular users. When Chrome introduced this versioning style every other software was stuck in minor versions for years. Regular users started assuming that Chrome must be better since it gets major versions constantly. I don't mind either option but I would love to see some sort of date based version in there, like Firefox 72 (20.01).
Re: Firefox 72.0
#20What's the criteria for FF bumping its major versions? Looks to me like these release announcements are getting much more frequent. Edit: Answered by zamadatix.
And the changelog shorter and shorter. Not only can't they catch up, but the feature gap keeps increasing.
The changelog is shorter because they have changed to a more frequent release schedule, to once every 4 weeks from once every 6-8 weeks.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/09/moving-firefox-to-a-faster...