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Firefox 67.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by Grue3 »

cbsks wrote: post #41
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

That still doesn't solve a problem of a user installing the browser for the first time, installing adblock, then going to a porn site in private mode and getting a faceful of malware-ridden ads. Who thought this is a good idea?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by jobigoud »

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?

I'm interested in the rationale behind this default. What about extensions make them a possibly bad fit for incognito mode?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by Breadmaker »

megous wrote: post #15
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

BTW, cheap-ass dark mode can be made by: filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg) on and perhaps fiddling with some backgrounds, to avoid transparency.

Color Bookmarklets https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/color.html

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by escapecharacter »

megous wrote: post #15
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

BTW, cheap-ass dark mode can be made by: filter: invert(95%) hue-rotate(190deg) on and perhaps fiddling with some backgrounds, to avoid transparency.

I'm curious, why 190deg and not 180deg ?

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by skykooler »

chupasaurus wrote: post #12
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.

> I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. It's in the config parameter's name: browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory. Boolean, works only on Windows for now.

Ah man. Hope this makes it to Linux and especially OSX soon!

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by DCoder »

jobigoud wrote: post #73
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?

I'm interested in the rationale behind this default. What about extensions make them a possibly bad fit for incognito mode?

The fact that they can still hoover up your browsing data the same way as in normal mode.

Google Chrome has defaulted to disabling extensions in incognito mode as long as I can remember:

> Allow in incognito [ ]

> Warning: Google Chrome cannot prevent extensions from recording your browsing history. To disable this extension in incognito mode, unselect this option.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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Post by cbrewster »

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.

Currently it will only be enabled on Windows machines with Nvidia GPUs. So this shouldn't be an issue for environments with no access to a GPU.
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