Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
Mozilla Firefox 119 open-source web browser is now available to download with the ability to import Chrome extensions, improved Firefox View.
I would just rather see direct link than blogspam:
215Exactly, especially since the article is basically just reading the changelog and jumping from random additions without any logic.
31Thank
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my list of cool features:
Gradually rolling out in Fx119, Firefox now allows you to edit PDFs by adding images and alt text, in addition to text and drawings.
If you're migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.
As part of Total Cookie Protection, Firefox now supports the partitioning of Blob URLs, this mitigates a potential tracking vector that third-party agents could use to track an individual.
The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts in Enhanced Tracking Protection strict mode to mitigate font fingerprinting.
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now available to Firefox users, delivering a more private browsing experience. ECH extends the encryption used in TLS connections to cover more of the handshake and better protect sensitive fields.
Firefox is now available in the Santali (sat) language.
Several enhancements have been made to the Inactive CSS styles feature. This feature assists in identifying CSS properties that have no effect on an element. Pseudo-elements such as ::first-letter, ::cue, and ::placeholder are now fully supported.
The JSON viewer is particularly useful for debugging REST APIs, as it displays formatted JSON responses. Now, if the JSON is invalid or broken, it automatically switches to a raw data view, improving the user experience.
Grouping of items in an array (and iterables) is now easier by using the methods Object.groupBy or Map.groupBy.
62Hmm, 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?
3Torbrowser is based in Firefox, but it could make sure that its anti-tracking mechanisms keep working.
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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).
38Yes please elaborate. Firefox Profiles are awesome!
15While 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. 😂
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If you're migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.
Nice.
33I 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.
-22I 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
14I dont think that is misleading. They're functionally the same extensions made by the same authors, if you trust one you trust the other.
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The only thing I want is proper support for desktop addons on mobile.
25This is in my opinion the biggest issue holding Firefox back in the mobile market. I would be perfectly fine with no more feature updates whatsoever as long as all addons worked.
9You can use a couple already in the nightly builds of both firefox and the respective add-on
6Sure, 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.
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It has already been announced and is likely to come before year-end.
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The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts in Enhanced Tracking Protection strict mode to mitigate font fingerprinting.
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.
23Waiting for vertical tabs.......
9just install some extention
28There are extensions that do that, use those along with userChrome and you can effectively replicate the look and feel of any other browser.
19Tree Style Tabs forever, baby! Simple vertical tab bars can't even hope to compete.
12I recently found Sideberry which looks like an improvement over TST, but I've been putting off switching to it because I would have to reorganize 431 tabs :')
2It should be built in at this point. It's annoying to apply userChrome.css tweaks to remove normal tabs and sidebar header.
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I'm not.
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Noice
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