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Re: Firefox 68.0

#81

Post by basch »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #74
kevin_b_er wrote: post #47

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…

Firefox 68 is a long-term support release. Even if Fenix exits preview without extension support, nothing stops you from continuing to run Firefox Android 68.

as long as 69 doesnt auto update from 68 in the play store, it doesnt seem like a problem. people can switch over once extension support is added.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by rat9988 »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #47

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…

The only add-on I need on y phone is an adblocker. This is why I've been using samsung browser for a long time. It does what I want and does it well.

(I'm not paid by samsung, just trying to help fellow readers)

Re: Firefox 68.0

#83

Post by [deleted] »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #74
kevin_b_er wrote: post #47

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…

Firefox 68 is a long-term support release. Even if Fenix exits preview without extension support, nothing stops you from continuing to run Firefox Android 68.

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Re: Firefox 68.0

#84

Post by craftyguy »

basch wrote: post #81
JoshTriplett wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox 68 is a long-term support release. Even if Fenix exits preview without extension support, nothing stops you from continuing to run Firefox Android 68.

as long as 69 doesnt auto update from 68 in the play store, it doesnt seem like a problem. people can switch over once extension support is added.

It seems like there will be no 69..

Re: Firefox 68.0

#85

Post by [deleted] »

llao wrote: post #50
benologist wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use software like https://serveo.net to assign a temporary domain to access your local files through a web server.

That's not necessary, if you run a local web server then this does not affect you. file:// is for access directly through the filesystem.

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Re: Firefox 68.0

#86

Post by johnbrodie »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #47

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…

I don't understand Mozilla's position regarding extensions. First, they released a new desktop version with way less extension support, gimping the largest reason I use FF for - vimperator and it's successors.

Now they are going to kill extensions in Android FF, which will kill the only non-ideological reason my family is using it - for the adblocking extensions.

Re: Firefox 68.0

#87

Post by nerdponx »

vermilingua wrote: post #9
whatshisface wrote: post #5

> Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory. What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.

Worse comes to worst it’ll be a toggleable flag, but it is still annoying.

That would be nice. Leave it off by default for most people, let developers turn it on if they really want it.

Re: Firefox 68.0

#88

Post by mswift42 »

There are two things keeping me using Chrome.

1) Videostreams are way smoother using Chrome, at least on Linux.

2) I've enabled Emacs Input in Gnome. When I enter something in the address bar, both Firefox and Chrome show suggestions for websites below. In Chrome I can type Ctrl+n / Ctrl+p to navigate between the suggestions, because it respects my keyboard schema.

In Firefox this opens new browser windows :( and I've found absolutely no way to change this behaviour.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by tangent128 »

klibertp wrote: post #80
pygy_ wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For 1) WebRender was developed for Servo and is being ported to Firefox as part of the Quantum effort (Firefox Rustification).

Is it being rewritten in non-Rust during the porting? Or is it left in Rust, with build system taking care to compile and link it properly?

It's being left in Rust, yes. Firefox already contains Rust components, such as Stylo.

Re: Firefox 68.0

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Post by tvanantwerp »

kevin_b_er wrote: post #47

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…

Without uBlock Origin on mobile Firefox, I guess I'll just stop visiting websites on mobile devices entirely. They're unusable without ad blocking.
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