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Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 331! I'm going to be livehacking on Firefox, maybe reviewing some patches, but hopefully (finally!) working on those GTest tests for the new off-main-thread Windows Jump List backend we've built!...
Kind of a big update... this is the last version of Firefox for Windows 7 and Windows 8, along with macOS 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14. I know this is forcing family members to finally upgrade their (mac) OS.
More big updates:
Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.
We've refreshed and streamlined the user interface for importing data in from other browsers.
The builtin editor now behaves similarly to other browsers with contenteditable and designMode when splitting a node, e.g. typing Enter to split a paragraph, and also when joining two nodes, e.g. typing Backspace at the start of a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous one.
Pretty sure that last feature is what finally fixes the Reddit Fancy Pants editor in Firefox... exactly when Reddit is destroying itself.
IndexedDB is now also supported in private browsing without memory limits thanks to encrypted storage on disk. The temporary keys to decrypt the information are hold in RAM only and all stored information is purged at the normal end of a private browsing session from disk.
This might help WhatsApp web run in private browsing, among other sites.
The most impactful thing is definitely going to be OS compatibility... this is going to be the last version of Firefox for a long time for a lot of people.
I genuinely think the web has become horrible enough where the browser you use does not really matter from the technical perspective.
It does, however, incredibly important to have more than 1 engine competing, as currently Firefox is the only mainstream browser not built on chromium/google.
[Interview] Calling Tab Group Users! Share Your Tab Grouping Expertise with Us! ( fedia.io )
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The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141 ( blog.nightly.mozilla.org )
Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...
Watch a Mozilla developer livehack on Firefox! Streams most Wednesdays at 1PM ET ( mikeconley.ca )
The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 331! I'm going to be livehacking on Firefox, maybe reviewing some patches, but hopefully (finally!) working on those GTest tests for the new off-main-thread Windows Jump List backend we've built!...
Firefox 115 released ( www.mozilla.org )