Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
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I would just rather see direct link than blogspam:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/119.0/releasenotes/
Exactly, especially since the article is basically just reading the changelog and jumping from random additions without any logic.
Thank
my list of cool features:
Hmm, only system fonts doesnt seem to help? Wouldnt that circumvent having the browser in a fake environment like Torbrowser does that, with the same fonts?
I keep waiting for better profile management. Not saying it needs to mirror chrome exactly, but feature wise it falls short (at least how I would like to use it).
Yes please elaborate. Firefox Profiles are awesome!
While they are passable, if you have used/setup profiles in Chrome, it's a far better user experience with more flexibility. Normally, I would go into app grouping in the start menu, but I just realized I am commenting in the Linux community. 😂
Please elaborate, I don't know what to use the profile features for
They are completely isolates browser settings. Account, session, settings, hardening, history, everything.
To a certain extent you can do that with multi-account containers.
For instance, I can have Amazon always open in my "Shopping" tab to keep it separate from my "Social Networks" tab.
I'd much rather use a separate Firefox (now Mozilla I think) account for my professional work. I also would prefer having separate extensions, notably Zotero connector is kind of useless for my personal browsing
Yes to some extent, but no addons, settings, user account, passwords, synchronized stuff etc.
Also afaik you can have profiles be encrypted with different master passwords
I use multiple accounts with Firefox containers, on office.com specifically. One container for my normal account and one for my admin. It works great for me but maybe there are other sites it doesn't like.
Basically you use it to have multiple browser instances with their own configuration(settings, extensions, tabs) for whatever reason. I use it to separate work and personal stuff.
Nice.
I think this is misleading. They're offering to match your Chrome extension with an equivalent Firefox extension. But they are not providing an extension compatibility layer to run Chrome extensions.
Yeah. I agree with you. New non-tech-savvy person might misunderstand.
However, new user rarely look at the changelog. So I think this wording does not affect much.
Yes, agree.
Currently the only browser (I know) that has the compatibility layer is the Orion browser by Kagi search engine. It is based on WebKit but expose API for both Firefox and Chromium extensions.
Not total compatibility but FF web extension compatibility is higher in number than Chromium.
I don't. If they meant that they would've said it. I had no moment of misunderstanding at all. Of course it would mean "I'll automatically match to the equivalent one so you don't have to do it manually". They just wanted to state it in a way it was easier to understand
I dont think that is misleading. They're functionally the same extensions made by the same authors, if you trust one you trust the other.
The only thing I want is proper support for desktop addons on mobile.
I'm guessing way less than 1% of people would use mobile extensions. I personally do but I don't think most people use chrome on mobile because of the lack of full extension support on mobile Firefox (which btw is coming). I think people use chrome because "everyone else does".
@TrickDacy @parpol I just wish that in 2023, Apple would relinquish their claw-like grip on mobile browsers on iOS. Give me ACTUAL Firefox, please.
Preaching to the choir
People use whatever 'Internet icon' came with their device and live their ignorant, but happy life :)
Yeah many do. Unless they find out they can hop on a bandwagon, such as with Chrome
I think you're underestimating how valuable tab groups are to people. I would make a full switch if Firefox could offer that feature on mobile in any reasonable way. Since it's already a desktop extension, I'm just waiting for them to be made available on Android
You can use a couple already in the nightly builds of both firefox and the respective add-on
Sure, but not even close to all. It's been literal years since the change. I was understanding at first, but now it's just becoming frustrating. Things that are very easy in desktop Firefox just isn't possible on mobile Firefox. And yes, I am running Firefox nightly and custom collections for my extensions on mobile.
It has already been announced and is likely to come before year-end.
I'm happy to see this. It's crazy how hard advertisers try to determine who I am when I'm actively attempting not to be shown their garbage and won't buy it from their links. Browsers should be sending far fewer html headers, and restricting the listed fonts to a common list is a good step forward.
Waiting for vertical tabs.......
just install some extention
There are extensions that do that, use those along with userChrome and you can effectively replicate the look and feel of any other browser.
Tree Style Tabs forever, baby! Simple vertical tab bars can't even hope to compete.
It should be built in at this point. It's annoying to apply userChrome.css tweaks to remove normal tabs and sidebar header.
Slightly odd they are opting to gradually roll out several features this release.
If they aren’t ready then maybe push them back to the next release?
Or they are learning from other apps that do this all the time to great success
Such as? I don’t know many open source apps doing this.
Why does it need to be limited to open source? A lot of the biggest apps out there typically roll out features slowly. I feel like once Facebook started doing it, it became widespread