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- yukijoou ( @yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 43•11 months ago
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.
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 4•11 months ago
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?
- Gyoza Power ( @GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de ) 20•11 months ago
The only thing I want is proper support for desktop addons on mobile.
- Audacity9961 ( @Audacity9961@feddit.ch ) 2•11 months ago
It has already been announced and is likely to come before year-end.
- tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 19•11 months ago
If you’re migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.
Nice.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English11•11 months ago
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.
- tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 15•11 months ago
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.
- Adanisi ( @Adanisi@lemmy.zip ) English15•11 months ago
And whether this is using equivalents or a compatibility layer, to the average non tech savvy person is irrelevant. They don’t care as long as it’s the extension they had and it works.
- tun ( @tun@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
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.
- bundes_sheep ( @bundes_sheep@lemmy.one ) English16•11 months ago
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.
- cryptix ( @cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•11 months ago
Waiting for vertical tabs…
- Vitaly ( @Vitaly@feddit.uk ) 17•11 months ago
just install some extention
- iusearchbtw ( @iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org ) English7•11 months ago
Tree Style Tabs forever, baby! Simple vertical tab bars can’t even hope to compete.
- Onihikage ( @Onihikage@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
I 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 :')
- koorool ( @koorool@feddit.de ) 1•11 months ago
It should be built in at this point. It’s annoying to apply userChrome.css tweaks to remove normal tabs and sidebar header.
- Link ( @Link@rentadrunk.org ) 5•11 months ago
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?