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But more than anything... BigInt! Finally! JavaScript has real integers on Chrome and Firefox now! (The TC39 proposal is at Stage 3: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint)
This marks the last Android release with extensions/add-on support. There will not be a 69 release of this edition of Firefox for Android ("Fennec"). The new remake of the mobile browser ("Fenix") does not have extensions support and it is on an indefinite and easily ignorable backlog. It is explicitly not being worked on this quarter. At the end of this quarter is the scheduled release of Firefox 69. Unless there's…
Wait what? Extensions are the biggest reason I'm using Firefox on my mobile and the only way I got people to switch to it. How can they just be removing them for any period of time?
"Cryptomining and fingerprinting protections are added to strict content blocking settings in Privacy & Security preferences." my first reaction is it's really sad to see this. looks like something Google blackmailed them into adding. maybe Im missing some aspect to this.. but why is mining crypto bad but showing ads is not? I rather mine coins/ether/whatever for the website owners than see more ads moving away from…
I can't use `--ProfileManager` or launch a new instance with a named profile (`-P 'ProfileName'`). Instead of opening a new window with the requested profile, it opens a new window of the same profile that's already running. Launching from about:profiles works. Is anyone else running into this?
> Presentation attributes on any SVG namespaced element
Is Firefox going to support this?
It's already supported in Chromium and makes it nice to use the web animations api (e.g., myRect.animate) on svg elements.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_2_suppo...
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Will it also eventually roll out for those with Intel Integrated Graphics?
Eventually… https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479781 You can enable/disable webrender in about:config if you want to try it out (gfx.webrender.all). I've switched to it on my laptop (HD Graphics 620, Gentoo Linux). So far so good.
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Crypto-mining scripts are mostly silent; if your computer doesn’t have a loud fan to spin up, you’re hardly able to even tell one is running other than on its eventual impact on battery life. As such, they’re a favoured tool of script-kiddies who deface websites. They take over a site, and then drop a crypto-miner onto the site to make themselves money, otherwise leaving everything intact. Sometimes even the site own…
If they wanted to show me which websites are impacting my battery life that'd be fantastic! That's a great idea There seems to be a conflict of interest when a browser singles out one of the biggest threats to the online ad industry while being funded by that same industry (~90% of Mozilla's money is from Google according to Wikipedia) While we're on the topic, does anyone have a good guide for adding a crypto miner…
about:performance aims to do that.
This marks the last Android release with extensions/add-on support. There will not be a 69 release of this edition of Firefox for Android ("Fennec"). The new remake of the mobile browser ("Fenix") does not have extensions support and it is on an indefinite and easily ignorable backlog. It is explicitly not being worked on this quarter. At the end of this quarter is the scheduled release of Firefox 69. Unless there's…
"Dark mode in reader view expands so that windows are also dark on the controls, sidebars and toolbars." Thank god.
the blank white page is killer. inbetween page loads a bright flash of white.
The Recommended Extensions program will go live on July 11. Extension updates are reviewed by Mozilla employees before they are published. Two of my extensions are also participating, reviewers took special care in how user data is handled and how accurate the privacy policy is. Overall the program seems to be a positive development that will give us a curated list of safe browser extensions to use.
I used to have an extension live after it being reviewed, sent them an update a few weeks later, and they took down the old version without warning because the original reviewer didn't do something correctly (from what I can remember). I then had to wait a week before they could review the update and put it back live again by which point, a large portion of the userbase had disappeared and all our marketing efforts gone to waste for an entire week.
Never again would I deal with Mozillas reviewing processes.