Firefox 96(mozilla.org)
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Firefox 96
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0/releasenotes/
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>We’ve also significantly reduced main-thread load.
Such an important detail that deserve at least few more sentence of marketing message or explanation. But the whole release note just feels like they couldn't be bothered anymore.
Such an important detail that deserve at least few more sentence of marketing message or explanation. But the whole release note just feels like they couldn't be bothered anymore.
Is saving the webpage (as PDF or MHTML or ANY BLOODY FORMAT) on Android back? It's incredible that that functionality just disappeared a few years ago and Mozilla is apparently ignoring user feedback.
Not the first time I say this but I have to say it again: Firefox: the last remaining mostly independent, maintained and reasonably popular browser.
Even if it were inferior in any aspect to other options, I'd still use it for the above mentioned reasons.
Even if it were inferior in any aspect to other options, I'd still use it for the above mentioned reasons.
I've become conditioned to react to Firefox version announcements with 'I wonder how Mozilla has screwed up the browser this time'. Either by introducing useless features or by removing options I considered useful. I hope I'm wrong this time.
I very much want "reader view" to have a "true black" mode specifically for oled phone screens. This is extremely valuable for people who want to read on their phones, because the black pixels emit no light at all. Unfortunately, dark mode isn't true black, which means those pixels emit light, leading to more eye strain, and defeating the real purpose (IMO) of dark mode on phones.
> We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.
What does that even mean?
What does that even mean?
Version 93 back in October added sponsored search suggestions on by default, [1] without even explicitly mentioning it in the release notes. [2] Is there going to be a similar surprise this time?
I still use Firefox as the lesser evil, and I believe there are lots of great people working on it (to whom I am thankful) but to see how the project has been run by the Mozilla Corpo-Foundation in the recent years is really disillusioning. I would love to see a change that would put a stop to the incessant stream of anti-features, while instead focusing on staying true to the original goals of the project.
1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest
2. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes
I still use Firefox as the lesser evil, and I believe there are lots of great people working on it (to whom I am thankful) but to see how the project has been run by the Mozilla Corpo-Foundation in the recent years is really disillusioning. I would love to see a change that would put a stop to the incessant stream of anti-features, while instead focusing on staying true to the original goals of the project.
1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest
2. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes
I switched to Waterfox a few months ago after infamous Proton redesign. I love Firefox in principle but hate UI redesigns for the sake of "fresh" look without improvements in usability.
Waterfox based on Firefox but with an old school compact UI and privacy features turned on by default.
Waterfox based on Firefox but with an old school compact UI and privacy features turned on by default.
I love firefox and use it avidly, but why does every firefox update keep trending on HN? I'm genuinely curious, most of these updates seem fairly minor
I'm unimpressed with these commenters griping about the UI change or sponsored this and that. I don't think that's an honest standard you hold yourself to in any fashion and is simply not a functional way to live your life! What about your toothpaste packaging -- or gasp the product itself?! Things change all the time, you can be annoyed about it, of course! But accepting change is part of being a human in societies. "UI changes breaking my workflow" -- seriously? I don't buy it. I wish the conversations like this would fade because it encourages bad attitudes across the board -- I can't put my finger on it. Is it entitlement? Mozilla owes ME a good browser?
> We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.
Where can I find out more about this?
Where can I find out more about this?
I love Firefox, but I hate to see that they seem to have given in to the Chrome hegemony once again and hide the login realm message when doing HTTP basic authentication now. I still hate Chrome to this day for starting to do that, because you can no longer send people to a site protected by basic auth and expect them to know which credentials to fill in. Firefox was the last popular browsing allowing the user to read the login message provided by the server.
Been using Firefox as my daily for 5+ years, couldn’t be happier.
This morning various websites stopped working (really random js failures). After lots of digging around…chrome works fine… :/ Waiting on a restart which hopefully fixes things so I can delete this line.
This morning various websites stopped working (really random js failures). After lots of digging around…chrome works fine… :/ Waiting on a restart which hopefully fixes things so I can delete this line.
> On macOS, command-clicking links in Gmail now opens them in a new tab as expected.
How is this Firefox's problem? Isn't Gmail just a website?
How is this Firefox's problem? Isn't Gmail just a website?
I've been using Firefox and packaging it for portable use at PortableApps.com since before version 1.0. It's my daily browser on Windows and Android (yay extensions). And the best alternative to Chrome/Safari domination.
Gave up on FF a month ago because it was just too damn slow, but I didn't want to go back to use Chrome because I don't want to have to install a ton of addons just to have features that should be baked in the browser by now.
I found Vivaldi and besides really minor things that I'd like to have, it looks like the perfect browser. Highly customizable, fast, and with full access to the Chrome addons. Not going back to either of the other two for the time being.
I found Vivaldi and besides really minor things that I'd like to have, it looks like the perfect browser. Highly customizable, fast, and with full access to the Chrome addons. Not going back to either of the other two for the time being.
Any chance we can have bookmarks back on a new tab page? Not 'recent' bookmarks. Regular, old, cultivated bookmarks.
> On macOS, command-clicking links in Gmail now opens them in a new tab as expected.
I wonder what happened here?
I wonder what happened here?
Every time a new version of Firefox comes out I try it on my XPS 13 to see if two finger scroll & pan and pinch to zoom still feel janky and weird compared to every other app on my computer.
Yup, still weird. Still can only scroll either horizontally or vertically but not both at the same time. Pinching feels weirdly linear and zooming out still doesn't use the mouse cursor position as a central point but just zooms from the center.
It's 2022, why doesn't Firefox just behave like every other application on my computer with scroll and pinch?
Yup, still weird. Still can only scroll either horizontally or vertically but not both at the same time. Pinching feels weirdly linear and zooming out still doesn't use the mouse cursor position as a central point but just zooms from the center.
It's 2022, why doesn't Firefox just behave like every other application on my computer with scroll and pinch?
Oh crap, they broke backdrop-filter: blur. It was so beautiful, and now it doesn't work, despite being enabled in about:config.
Why are you doing this to me, Firefox Developers?
Why are you doing this to me, Firefox Developers?
Firefox development seems to be stagnating (despite pumping an insane amount of money to it /s)
I wonder where all the Google money goes? definitely not in firefox, otherwise it wouldn't have only just 3% market share
If they do pump money in firefox, then i guess it's time to replace the entire team, including the people at the top of the mafia, they are clearly incompetent
I wonder where all the Google money goes? definitely not in firefox, otherwise it wouldn't have only just 3% market share
If they do pump money in firefox, then i guess it's time to replace the entire team, including the people at the top of the mafia, they are clearly incompetent
I love Firefox but I can't really use it at work because our front-end devs refuse to support it, so our application doesn't have scrollbars - and switching between browsers sucks.
Use it at home and all of my personal devices though, and will not be switching any time soon.
Use it at home and all of my personal devices though, and will not be switching any time soon.
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> We’ve also significantly reduced main-thread load.
Does anyone know the technical details here?
Does anyone know the technical details here?
I've been using Firefox Nightly for a while now, had no discernible issues
I saw the name and thought it might be some kind of retro throwback to the 1996 version of Netscape Communicator. I was sort of looking forward to the integrated but awkward built-in mail client and newsreader.
I'm using Firefox since Phoenix 0.1 :). I'm not giving it up! (I hate the look of the "new" tabs though :( (looks wrong on macOS and Windows, okish on Linux).
Not much innovation in new versions anymore but I'm still excited to be running Firefox.
It's something about using a browser written for privacy from day one.
It's something about using a browser written for privacy from day one.
When I saw the version number, I was expecting some retro nostalgic version of Firefox with Windows 95 window decorations and theming.
Oh well. Congrats on the release!!
Oh well. Congrats on the release!!
Highlights:
* CSS color-scheme support, which was the last of the major browsers:https://caniuse.com/?search=color-scheme
* Web Locks API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_A... (Still not in Safari)