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Firefox releases come out every 6 weeks. It helps to put something in the title that explains what's interesting about this one.

by sp332 6y ago

CUViper 6y ago
It's actually every 4 weeks now!
ville 6y ago
The original title is slightly better in this regard: “Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates”
Amorymeltzer 6y ago
>A new stable version of Firefox brings July to a close with the return of shared memory! Firefox 79 also offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, and other updates of interest to web developers.
- twic 6y ago
  A couple of details ... the return of shared memory > At the start of 2018, Shared Memory and high-resolution timers were effectively disabled in light of Spectre. In 2020, a new, more secure approach has been standardized to re-enable shared memory. mondo details here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-memory/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-mem... more secure target=_blank links > To prevent the DOM property window.opener from being abused by untrusted third-party sites, Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener for all links that contain target=_blank.
  - frandroid 6y ago
    > Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener Only took what, three years since that vulnerability was found?
ProAm 6y ago
Hopefully they changed the address bar back to be non-Chromeified.
- boogies 6y ago
  Haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was always easy to switch the behavior (for a power user, and I think the omnibar is much more appealing to non power users as it's visually simpler, big, and easier to click — unifying the search and address bar is what you're talking about, right?).
  - MaxBarraclough 6y ago
    I think they're referring to the browser hiding parts of the URL, the way Chrome does. Unthinkingly following Chrome, Firefox started doing this too. To my knowledge, Firefox still defaults to doing this, but I could be mistaken. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/879926 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/879926
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  - ProAm 6y ago
    Its not easy to switch back anymore and breaks a lot of functionality if you do. But its crazy that you have to accept serious UI/UX changes to get security fixes too.
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    - unethical_ban 6y ago
      How? "Preferences > Search > Search Bar" allows you to add back the separate bar. And you can toggle search suggestions in the address bar as well. I don't see how that breaks anything or that it is a "serious UI change". And finally, the security implications of search suggestions in the address bar are debatable for the end user.

Firefox releases come out every 6 weeks. It helps to put something in the title that explains what's interesting about this one.

by sp332 6y ago

Firefox releases come out every 6 weeks. It helps to put something in the title that explains what's interesting about this one.

CUViper 6y ago

It's actually every 4 weeks now!

ville 6y ago

The original title is slightly better in this regard: “Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates”

Amorymeltzer 6y ago

>A new stable version of Firefox brings July to a close with the return of shared memory! Firefox 79 also offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, and other updates of interest to web developers.

twic 6y ago
A couple of details ... the return of shared memory > At the start of 2018, Shared Memory and high-resolution timers were effectively disabled in light of Spectre. In 2020, a new, more secure approach has been standardized to re-enable shared memory. mondo details here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-memory/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-mem... more secure target=_blank links > To prevent the DOM property window.opener from being abused by untrusted third-party sites, Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener for all links that contain target=_blank.
- frandroid 6y ago
  > Firefox 79 now automatically sets rel=noopener Only took what, three years since that vulnerability was found?

ProAm 6y ago

Hopefully they changed the address bar back to be non-Chromeified.

boogies 6y ago
Haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was always easy to switch the behavior (for a power user, and I think the omnibar is much more appealing to non power users as it's visually simpler, big, and easier to click — unifying the search and address bar is what you're talking about, right?).
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  I think they're referring to the browser hiding parts of the URL, the way Chrome does. Unthinkingly following Chrome, Firefox started doing this too. To my knowledge, Firefox still defaults to doing this, but I could be mistaken. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/879926 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/879926
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- ProAm 6y ago
  Its not easy to switch back anymore and breaks a lot of functionality if you do. But its crazy that you have to accept serious UI/UX changes to get security fixes too.
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  - unethical_ban 6y ago
    How? "Preferences > Search > Search Bar" allows you to add back the separate bar. And you can toggle search suggestions in the address bar as well. I don't see how that breaks anything or that it is a "serious UI change". And finally, the security implications of search suggestions in the address bar are debatable for the end user.