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Firefox 67

47 points by colinprince 7y ago

Lowkeyloki 7y ago
What if I just want my browser to be a browser?
- classics2 7y ago
  Metrics show very few users want a browser in their browser. HTML is old and dated.
  - ncmncm 7y ago
    "It can be so much more!"
- eridius 7y ago
  Then I guess you just care about the headlining feature listed as the very first item in the list. > Now you have the power to block video ads that autoplay when you open articles and links. Plus, Firefox has upped your protection against ad trackers.
- webmobdev 7y ago
  What you are looking for is Pale Moon (https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/) - a browser being developed with a hard fork of Mozilla Gecko rendering engine without all the Firefox "shitty new, shiny things that everyone thinks is the latest fad that needs to be in the browser".
- pornel 7y ago
  You right-click the Pocket icon, "Remove from Address Bar", and you unshackle your browser from the tyranny of this Mozilla-owned optional free bookmarking service.
envolt 7y ago
This was fucking absurd update. My firefox profile was not compatible, and all my extensions were removed (And resynced). I was using Containers to manage all my work/personal/work2 sessions, and they are all gone (Again; first happened when firefox addon outage happened)
- morog 7y ago
  multi-account containers work fine for me after update, but also broke when the addon-apocalyse happened. I did have a fresh profile setup on 66 though for my new laptop.
- dandellion 7y ago
  Pocket integration that nobody asked for, breaking extensions, removing useful features like RSS and bookmark descriptions... I've been a Firefox user for something like 15 years and I wish they could get back to focusing on making a good web browser, the direction they have taken lately has been incredibly disappointing. They do some cool projects, but I can't be happy for those when the core experience keeps getting worse and worse.
  - NeutronStar 7y ago
    Would you rather have chrome that disables add-blocking, forces user-login on browser when visiting websites, etc.. ?
- ncmncm 7y ago
  Will there be an announcement when an update is released that doesn't delete all my tabs and unship all my extensions? Or, did I misunderstand what 66->67 does?
ozchris 7y ago
> Keep an eye on data breaches with Monitor This is fairly neat; For example, I browsed to the Datacamp website and was notified of a breach in 2017. But that must hurt for the company. Still, it strongly incentivizes keeping high security standards, because now, customers will know. I like it.
kup0 7y ago
I think I prefer the regular release notes (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/) instead of the marketing page - gives a much better overview of what's truly "new in 67"

Firefox 67

47 points by colinprince 7y ago

Lowkeyloki 7y ago

What if I just want my browser to be a browser?

classics2 7y ago
Metrics show very few users want a browser in their browser. HTML is old and dated.
- ncmncm 7y ago
  "It can be so much more!"
eridius 7y ago
Then I guess you just care about the headlining feature listed as the very first item in the list. > Now you have the power to block video ads that autoplay when you open articles and links. Plus, Firefox has upped your protection against ad trackers.
webmobdev 7y ago
What you are looking for is Pale Moon (https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/) - a browser being developed with a hard fork of Mozilla Gecko rendering engine without all the Firefox "shitty new, shiny things that everyone thinks is the latest fad that needs to be in the browser".
pornel 7y ago
You right-click the Pocket icon, "Remove from Address Bar", and you unshackle your browser from the tyranny of this Mozilla-owned optional free bookmarking service.

envolt 7y ago

This was fucking absurd update. My firefox profile was not compatible, and all my extensions were removed (And resynced). I was using Containers to manage all my work/personal/work2 sessions, and they are all gone (Again; first happened when firefox addon outage happened)

morog 7y ago
multi-account containers work fine for me after update, but also broke when the addon-apocalyse happened. I did have a fresh profile setup on 66 though for my new laptop.
dandellion 7y ago
Pocket integration that nobody asked for, breaking extensions, removing useful features like RSS and bookmark descriptions... I've been a Firefox user for something like 15 years and I wish they could get back to focusing on making a good web browser, the direction they have taken lately has been incredibly disappointing. They do some cool projects, but I can't be happy for those when the core experience keeps getting worse and worse.
- NeutronStar 7y ago
  Would you rather have chrome that disables add-blocking, forces user-login on browser when visiting websites, etc.. ?
ncmncm 7y ago
Will there be an announcement when an update is released that doesn't delete all my tabs and unship all my extensions? Or, did I misunderstand what 66->67 does?

ozchris 7y ago

> Keep an eye on data breaches with Monitor This is fairly neat; For example, I browsed to the Datacamp website and was notified of a breach in 2017. But that must hurt for the company. Still, it strongly incentivizes keeping high security standards, because now, customers will know. I like it.

kup0 7y ago

I think I prefer the regular release notes (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/) instead of the marketing page - gives a much better overview of what's truly "new in 67"