Firefox 72.0

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Post by Shinkirou » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

Firefox 72.0
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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zamadatix » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

If this seems faster than normal it is. 72 is the first major version released on the new 4 week release cycle.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by grenoire » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

What's the criteria for FF bumping its major versions? Looks to me like these release announcements are getting much more frequent.

Edit: Answered by zamadatix.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by otanriverdi » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

It's great to see Firefox improving constantly. Especially since Chrome is unusable on MacOS Catalina for many users atm.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by yori » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago.

While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now.

If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it another shot. It won't disappoint you for sure.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by The_rationalist » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

grenoire wrote: post #3

What's the criteria for FF bumping its major versions? Looks to me like these release announcements are getting much more frequent. Edit: Answered by zamadatix.

And the changelog shorter and shorter. Not only can't they catch up, but the feature gap keeps increasing.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by typon » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

The picture in picture is such a great feature. Thanks Firefox devs :)

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

yori wrote: post #5

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…

Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by saturn_vk » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

It doesn't seem like you can set the pip window to be sticky across all desktops. That's unfortunate and a bit unusable

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Siecje » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #8

yori wrote: post #5

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…

Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

I like Edit and resend in the Network tab. I don't know how to do that in Chromium.