Firefox 69.0 Released

#1

Post by sulkie » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#2

Post by kuu » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content.

Uhmmm...

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#3

Post by ohduran » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:34 PM UTC

Wait, Firefox Monitor? As in "allow us to store your email and password in case your email and password are pwned in some other site"? Does anyone else think this is prone to disaster, eventually?

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#4

Post by manquer » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:34 PM UTC

Enhanced Tracking Protection feature is enabled by default in this release.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#5

Post by geewee » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:34 PM UTC

It didn't make it to the developer notes, but Firefox 69 should be the first one to ship with unhandledrejection event on by default[0] - I'm so looking forward to being able to catch promises and do proper error handling on them in Firefox without having to jump through hoops

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/unha...

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#6

Post by ohlookabird » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

geewee wrote: post #5

It didn't make it to the developer notes, but Firefox 69 should be the first one to ship with unhandledrejection event on by default[0] - I'm so looking forward to being able to catch promises and do proper error handling on them in Firefox without having to jump through hoops [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/unha...

Fantastic, I was hoping Firefox will implement this finally.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#7

Post by plopz » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

> Firefox no longer loads userChrome.css or userContent.css by default improving start-up performance. Users who wish to customize Firefox by using these files can set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability.

How much of a performance improvement does this make?

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#8

Post by veidr » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

kuu wrote: post #2

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...

I'm even OK with this feature, just not with the we're shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of... drone-speak T_T

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#9

Post by povertyworld » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

I have a bunch of Facebook domains in my hosts, but for some reason Firefox 69.0 gets DNS from somewhere else and goes right through. Weird. The other stuff in hosts resolves correctly.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#10

Post by uncletaco » Tue, Sep 03, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

ohduran wrote: post #3

Wait, Firefox Monitor? As in "allow us to store your email and password in case your email and password are pwned in some other site"? Does anyone else think this is prone to disaster, eventually?

It's more like "share your email and if it turns up in a leak we'll inform you."

Some password managers already do this and I personally think its a nice feature. Though I often generate new emails and passwords for sites on the spot so this feature isn't of much use to me.