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Firefox 67.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by cbsks »

cesarb wrote: post #24

> Change to extensions in Private Windows: Any new extensions you add to the browser won’t work in Private Windows unless you allow this in the settings. Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?

No. The extensions that are already installed will still work in private windows. It’s only newly installed extensions that are disabled in private windows by default

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by bepvte »

octosphere wrote: post #32
cesarb wrote: post #24

> Change to extensions in Private Windows: Any new extensions you add to the browser won’t work in Private Windows unless you allow this in the settings. Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?

> Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again? Looks like it, although if you don't know how to configure your extensions, then why even use them in the first place? Chrome has been doing this for a while now. You have to check the 'Allow in incognito' button for the extensi…

Previously installed extensions before this update will not be disabled automatically, only new ones

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by lholden »

akavel wrote: post #39

> "Enable FIDO U2F API, and permit registrations for Google Accounts" Oh! Didn't expect that! Does this mean YubiKeys will now be working in GMail on Firefox? Together with all the other stuff, this starts to look like a really important and major release of Firefox.

Yep, though technically one could enable this before now by tweaking the about:config security.webauth.u2f setting. (Which is something I've been having to do for a while now).

As a side note... the way Google handles U2F is somewhat out of spec. For example, you haven't been able to register a u2f device with Firefox on google. I wonder if that's been worked around with this release? That would be great!

Otherwise, u2f has worked perfect with sites like GitLab and GitHub for example.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by mbrubeck »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #38
mbrubeck wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In both private and not-private windows, the browser asks the user whether to save each password. Nothing is saved unless you explicitly click the Save button.

Ok, but I think the parent is wondering in what situation you'd want to store in the browser details of a site you'd visited, but still use private mode to "hide" that you'd visited? What data does the password use retain? IIRC password store retains the "time first used, time last used" and displays that visibly. In short what's the use-case or user story that fits this feature?

I sometimes use private browsing to temporarily access a site with a secondary account, without logging it if my main account.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by saagarjha »

zimbatm wrote: post #11

Firefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... And it does the right thing and disables the feature when enabling the resist fingerprinting option. I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode

Interestingly that page doesn't support prefers-color-scheme itself ;)

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by phillc73 »

akavel wrote: post #39

> "Enable FIDO U2F API, and permit registrations for Google Accounts" Oh! Didn't expect that! Does this mean YubiKeys will now be working in GMail on Firefox? Together with all the other stuff, this starts to look like a really important and major release of Firefox.

I have a U2F Nitrokey and noticed it's been working in Firefox 66.0.5 for the last few weeks. I thought it was just an announcement I missed. I can confirm it works signing into a Google Account.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

gerbilly wrote: post #6

I tried to see if letterboxing was enabled, but it didn't seem to make a difference.¹ Does anyone know whether they included this feature, and if so how to enable it? 1: https://browserleaks.com/javascript still detects my window size down to the pixel.

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Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by phillc73 »

lholden wrote: post #43
akavel wrote: post #39

> "Enable FIDO U2F API, and permit registrations for Google Accounts" Oh! Didn't expect that! Does this mean YubiKeys will now be working in GMail on Firefox? Together with all the other stuff, this starts to look like a really important and major release of Firefox.

Yep, though technically one could enable this before now by tweaking the about:config security.webauth.u2f setting. (Which is something I've been having to do for a while now). As a side note... the way Google handles U2F is somewhat out of spec. For example, you haven't been able to register a u2f device with Firefox on google. I wonder if that's been worked around with this release? That would be great! Otherwise,…

> about:config security.webauth.u2f

I still have this set to Value: "false" in Firefox 66.0.5 and it's working fine for Google Accounts.

Edit: I'm pretty sure I registered by Nitrokeys with Google back in 2017 using Chrome, so I'm just referring to signing in with them.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by e1ven »

ncmncm wrote: post #18
hd4 wrote: post #13

>WebRender is gradually enabled by default on Windows 10 desktops with NVIDIA graphics cards Does this mean Webrender in Stable can now be force-enabled for non-Nvidia graphics cards on Windows 10? The language is a little unclear. AFAIK Webrender is available to anyone using Nightly by force enabling it.

It would be better if they offered a way to really turn it off. Firefox has got very crashy in environments that have no access to a GPU.

Could you set set gfx.webrender.enabled to false?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by helb »

darkpuma wrote: post #4

> "Suspending unused tabs" I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.

> Firefox will now detect if your computer’s memory is running low, which we define as lower than 400MB, and suspend unused tabs that you haven’t used or looked at in a while.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-rele...

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