What's New in Firefox Version 110.0? (omgubuntu.co.uk) 63
Valentine's Day saw Mozilla releasing version 110.0 of its Firefox browser. OMG Ubuntu highlights some of its new features:
Firefox already supports importing bookmarks, history, and passwords from Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Chromium, and Safari but once you have the Firefox 110 update you can also import data from Opera, Opera GX, and Vivaldi too — which is handy.
Other changes in Firefox 110 include the ability to clear date, time, and datetime-local input fields using using ctrl + backspace and ctrl + delete on Linux (and Windows) — no, can't say I ever noticed I couldn't do that, either.
Additionally, Mozilla say GPU-accelerated Canvas2D is now enabled by default on Linux, and we can all expect to benefit from a miscellaneous clutch of WebGL performance improvements.
Other changes in Firefox 110 include the ability to clear date, time, and datetime-local input fields using using ctrl + backspace and ctrl + delete on Linux (and Windows) — no, can't say I ever noticed I couldn't do that, either.
Additionally, Mozilla say GPU-accelerated Canvas2D is now enabled by default on Linux, and we can all expect to benefit from a miscellaneous clutch of WebGL performance improvements.
while i was reading this (Score:5, Insightful)
While I was reading this, FF came out with version 111, but while I was reading that, they came out with version 112. Turns out they still haven't fixed the bugs I reported for version 62, though, but now FF will monitor your toaster for how brown is your bread.
Re:while i was reading this (Score:5, Informative)
It looks like they at least fixed the bug (in 111b2) where firefox beta tells you every couple of hours to go download an update... to the same version.
Re:while i was reading this (Score:5, Insightful)
Firefox is... well it can be annoying. And there's Mozilla behind it, which isn't a great asset.
But I'll tell you where it's unbeatable:
- It's not Google's spying tool - or one of the numerous derivatives thereof, some of which pretend to be more privacy friendly but really aren't - Microsoft's spying tool or Apple's spying tool.
- it's configurable up the wazoo, in ways the Google, Microsoft and Apple spying tools aren't (by design: the user is just there to be spied on, not to be given configuration options).
Just for those reasons, I'm willing to overlook the reasons why it or Mozilla can be infuriating sometimes.
And if I'm honest, it's been quite a while since I've been truly infuriated by Firefox or Mozilla. So I really don't have much to complain about.
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Firefox is... well it can be annoying. And there's Mozilla behind it, which isn't a great asset.
But I'll tell you where it's unbeatable:
- It's not Google's spying tool - or one of the numerous derivatives thereof, some of which pretend to be more privacy friendly but really aren't - Microsoft's spying tool or Apple's spying tool. - it's configurable up the wazoo, in ways the Google, Microsoft and Apple spying tools aren't (by design: the user is just there to be spied on, not to be given configuration options).
Just for those reasons, I'm willing to overlook the reasons why it or Mozilla can be infuriating sometimes.
And if I'm honest, it's been quite a while since I've been truly infuriated by Firefox or Mozilla. So I really don't have much to complain about.
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately I am encountering more and more websites that do not work -- at all -- with anything other than Google Chrome or one of the Chrome derivatives. The old "change the useragent" trick doesn't work either.
I don't know what the attraction is but the entire Internet has become lemmings rushing toward Google Chrome.
Re:while i was reading this (Score:4, Insightful)
Complain to the people who run the site. It's more effective than you think.
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If by effective you mean it feels good to vent when it will absolutely make no difference, then sure.
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I'm one of those people who does that. I can't say it's ever worked even once. Most web developers are just stupid and full of themselves.
My favorite is when I contacted the lead developer of a site and gave him a full technical explanation of how his security hack was breaking alternative browsers and potentially making the site less secure. He told me it was a security feature, and security good, so the solution was for me to use an up-to-date browser. Nope. Don't care.
I once tried to reason with an
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I completely agree with you. Unfortunately I am encountering more and more websites that do not work -- at all -- with anything other than Google Chrome or one of the Chrome derivatives. The old "change the useragent" trick doesn't work either.
I don't know what the attraction is but the entire Internet has become lemmings rushing toward Google Chrome.
Computing in general is like this. It had to be. Otherwise TCP/IP wouldn't be as prevalent as it is.
The only site I've found that doesn't like Firefox is MS Teams. Everything else seems just fine with audio. Teams, for whatever reason, goes out of its way to hog the RAM in chrome and shut out Firefox uses from conferences.
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First was when entering data into a password field on a non-SSL site, it warns me that the password is not encrypted. I know it's good for regular users and it's petty, but it annoyed the shit out of me.
Second was the incessant need to restart it. I mean it's okay to ask me to restart, but continue
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Second was the incessant need to restart it. I mean it's okay to ask me to restart, but continue working until I'm in a position I can. Don't just stop working.
What? I restart it one per update, usually a week or so after the little notification dot appears. It's never stopped working to force a restart.
But the straw that broke the camel's back for me is the debugger. The debugger in Chrome is much nicer.
What? Firefox's debug tools are clearly superior. Chrome lacks many of the useful features provided by Firefox. What you want to say is that your used to Chrome's inferior tools and so you prefer them.
Third was the memory footprint.
You're out of your mind. Chrome has a significantly larger memory footprint.
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Lucky you. I dread when I get the notification box or more usual, w3hen the UAC pop up comes up asking to install the update (I decline those as it always pops up when I run a secondary profile so it can't really update).
It usually means Firefox will stop working randomly over the next few days. And it always stops working by failing to make a network connection, s
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Oh yeah, Firefox also refuses to close properly too - I close every window of that firefox instance, and firefox continues to run. It's not until I restart that profile, then tell firefox to force-quit itself does it actually clean up. (With multi-process Firefox, you're never quite sure which firefox process belongs to which profile).
After that happened to me a couple of times, I just decided to resort to killing the process forcefully in Windows Task Manager or command prompt in Linux.
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What? I restart it one per update, usually a week or so after the little notification dot appears. It's never stopped working to force a restart.
Are you using it in Linux? Perhaps it's different in Windows. Because this [duckduckgo.com] is the screen that appears (only if you open a new tab. Your AJAX calls just fail to work) and once it's there, you can't do ANYTHING other than to restart it.
What? Firefox's debug tools are clearly superior. Chrome lacks many of the useful features provided by Firefox. What you want to say is that your used to Chrome's inferior tools and so you prefer them.
I did say "perhaps it's because I'm more used to the debugger in Chrome." No need to regurgitate my words, but perhaps you can enlighten me as to what debug tools are superior in FF and what features Chrome lacks. Then you may be making a valid point.
You're out of your mind. Chrome has a significantly larger memory footprint.
Oh. That's why FF has
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Mod parent Funny for the saddest possible values of funny.
The #1 feature I would like from Firefox is more stability. But that's not how their economic model works. They continue to believe that their path to more money is through more new features.
Riddle me this, Batman. Seriously folks, I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with this idea:
If enough people are willing to pay for the implementation of a particular new feature, then implement it. If not, then don't. If the feature doesn't add costs, th
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While I do vaguely and occasionally wonder what triggers the trolls, I don't think there's any particularly interesting or triggering substance in the following requote against censorship. Rather I think it was just a wordless moron with a mod-point shotgun and sufficient intelligence to locate five of my "targets".
I did think about saying more on the ongoing projects part of it. There's actually quite a bit of wiggle room for marketing there. For example, if an ongoing cost project has expired, then you co
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Firefox already supports importing bookmarks, history, and passwords from Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Chromium, and Safari
My copy of Firefox 109 disagrees. When I select Import my only options are "Microsoft Edge Legacy" (the old Edge that nobody uses) and Microsoft Internet Explorer (which nobody uses).
I've imported from Chrome [mozilla.org] before, and it should offer to do so if it can find your profile.
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Yeah. I'm really sick of this current versioning scheme that does away entirely with major.minor.bugfix version numbering that actually made sense.
Re: while i was reading this (Score:3)
You're talking about semver, which is outlined thus:
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner
- PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes
The release cadence Firefox uses basically only means that second one is relevant as literally every release includes additional functionality that is backwards compatible. The last breaking change was the switch to using web extensions, which effectively became a web st
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Yep. I had to stop using Firefox for Gmail because it keeps failing where gmail decides it's no longer connected. Even before that I had to restart Firefox every week or two because it leaked like a sieve, burning through all 32 gigs of my ram. And it doesn't cleanly exit. I have to bring up task manager and kill off the left over firefox processes before it'll restart.
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False.
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I am using Firefox all the time with gmail, I have it in a pinned tab, and I am not having either of these problems.
Either you have some kind of infection, or just a leaky extension or botched install.
Save your bookmarks file, wipe your profile and your install, and start over with FF. Load your extensions manually. I have around a dozen extensions loaded on FF beta (plus some user scripts) and it's plenty solid.
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Actually, it is a clean profile, one I used exclusively for Google apps. And -of course- I tried a fresh one before giving up on it.
I suspect that's part of the problem: I have several profiles running at once and even though they're separate processes that are supposed to be acting independently, I think they're interfering with each other.
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Turns out they still haven't fixed the bugs I reported for version 62, though
Everyone thinks their own bug is the most important.
Nothing New to Disable (Score:5, Funny)
How disappointing (and unusual): There has been no crappola added that needs to be disabled or reverted.
Is this the start of a new trend, or just a mistake?
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How disappointing (and unusual): There has been no crappola added that needs to be disabled or reverted.
Hang in there friend because Mozilla is working toward fully implementing the WebMIDI API to catch up to Google, who made the damn API. [github.io] Why? Because fuck you, that's why.
It's still experimental but you can disable it now before it goes into use.
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What is this API for? Controlling music instruments via the web browser? That's certainly useful! ... or is it
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click the link.
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I would, but my MIDI Otamatone does not allow me to click, just to buzz!
Best firefox feature (Score:5, Interesting)
The best Firefox feature that beats anything else out there is the screenshots feature -- It even works great in pages that have scrollable frames. No other browser has anything close to it. In any other browser you have to resort to the OS screenshot and then stitch the images to create a long page.
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Chrome and Chromium (and probably all the derivatives too) can take screenshots but the feature is well hidden in the developer tools and hard to find even when you know its there. Open developer tools, select "Run command" from the three dots menu, type "screenshot", select one of the four options. Forget where it was after you are done, google where to find it next time you need it.
Re: Best firefox feature (Score:2)
Just tried that, itâ(TM)s not as good, for example the inspect frame shows up as a brown stripe. Itâ(TM)s also less convenient.
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Also, it doesn't work for embedded frames.
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In Edge, this is the "Web Capture" menu command. Hopefully the functionality is surfaced more widely in the future.
Is auto play fixed? (Score:3)
Contrary to what is claimed, telling Firefox not to play every single video on a web page does not work every time. When the option is selected, videos can still play. Going into about:config and modifying the entry does not necessarily prevent every video from playing either.
How difficult is it when you say, "Don't play any video unless I select it" to do just that?
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How difficult is it when you say, "Don't play any video unless I select it" to do just that?
When pages have javascript controls for, well, controlling video and the browser runs Javascript and people are mysteriously motivated to piss off visitors? Really fucking hard as it turns out.
Only 110.0? (Score:2)
I was really looking forward to Release 999.9
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But then Google came along, incrementing the major version number every other day. And so Firefox had to do the same, otherwise they would appear to be old and outdated.
If they are going to play that game then they should go all-in. Call the next release 200. And the next one 300. Take that
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Use exponential revision numbers...
[magic number] * 10^ver.
FF vs user. (Score:2)
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Yes, that's extra frustrating on Unixlikes where if you just use filehandles correctly, there's absolutely zero need for this. It suggests that FF is doing something braindead behind the scenes.
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I'm on windows and it (Firefox) downloads an update and updates at the next browser upstart, it does not ask me to close the browser then and there to run the update.
Speed DIals? (Score:2)
What is their plan again? (Score:1)
Good timing (Score:2)
Lots of crashing... (Score:2)
Scrapbook Extension Sorely Missed (Score:2)
No proper Print Preview yet? (Score:1)
A definite strike against.
not there: JXL (Score:1)
For once, I'm disappointed for something that was not added: enabled JPEG-XL support, given their recent semi-withdrawal...
Shame, the format seemed to generate strong interest from imaging and technical communities, but our internet ruling overlords said we're not supposed to have nice things.
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Grumpy ff hold-out (Score:1)
The main reason I use Firefox is because there need to be a choice in browsers, and especially in rendering engines. Maybe there are those that think if there is only one rendering engine then that is the standard and no standard issues will ensue. I don't mind people thinking that way, I just don't agree.
And using a browser that's not used by the masses means less trojans is developed for that browsers potential security holes.
But seriously I like Firefox, for all its single flaw; with some updates (not al
Yes but try scrolling thru Facebook using Firefox (Score:2)
TLDR (Score:1)
Nothing of note.
*spits coffee* version WHAT now? (Score:2)
How about fixtng bugs? (Score:2)
For the last year, about one or two days a week, I log back in, and instead of giving me the ton o' tabs I had when I logged off the night before, I get an intro window, and that's the only tab.
I have to shut it down, and copy the .mozilla I saved, and *then* it works correctly, well, for "the last time I made that copy, which could be a week or two ago" values of "correctly".
Oh, and the "open new window" which tries to open *ALL* the tabs....