Firefox 67 also the first browser that ships with `prefers-color-scheme` (aka dark mode) after Safari.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...</a><p>And it does the right thing and disables the feature when enabling the resist fingerprinting option.<p>I did a small survey and only very few websites have developed a second dark theme: <a href="https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode" rel="nofollow">https://zimbatm.com/DarkMode</a>
Congrats to Mozilla on shipping WebRender[1]! Just Nvidia on Windows for now, but I'm looking forward to the restrictions being relaxed - the perf improvements have been significant on my end.<p>1: <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/" rel="nofollow">https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...</a>
Firefox 67 should be the first version to fix permissions request spam: where tons of websites request your location (common enough that it's become a meme) or for permission to send you notifications.<p>Before Firefox 67, if you choose to hide these notifications by default, there's no way to change this later for individual sites without (a) knowing the site needs this information, and (b) going to Firefox's preferences menu to add an exception.<p>Now, a small icon will appear next to the lock icon when Firefox automatically denies a permissions request. You can click that icon and grant the request. This means that permissions are now easily configurable without those spammy popups appearing on so many websites!<p>I liked this feature so much I actually backported it to Firefox 66, and I can say it's an amazing quality improvement.
<i>> "Enable FIDO U2F API, and permit registrations for Google Accounts"</i><p>Oh! Didn't expect that! Does this mean YubiKeys will now be working in GMail on Firefox?<p>Together with all the other stuff, this starts to look like a really important and major release of Firefox.
When I upgraded from 66.0.5 it created a new profile, rather than keeping my existing passwords/histories/extensions.<p>I'm not going to use firefox sync, so it seems like there will be a painful migration ahead.
> Save passwords in private browsing mode<p>While this might be handy when visiting your favorite paid porn site, isn't this counter-intuitive? When I am in private mode, I expect nothing to be saved.
> Change to extensions in Private Windows: Any new extensions you add to the browser won’t work in Private Windows unless you allow this in the settings.<p>Does this mean that adblocking (and other safety-related) extensions will suddenly stop working on private windows, unless the user knows it has to go to the settings and enable them again?
That means that one of the most obscure performance regression bugs I've ever found in Firefox is also fixed: property lookups on numbers being slower for values recognized and optimized as integers by the JavaScript engine than for regular doubles.<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523633" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523633</a>
> <i>"Suspending unused tabs"</i><p>I'm curious to see how aggressive this is. If it's good enough to render my tab suspender extension obsolete, that'd be fantastic.
Running Firefox under Qubes has become increasingly frustrating, as tabs crash whenever (apparently?) they try to use WebGL, or anything that depends on access to a GPU. More and more, Firefox seems to depend on GPU access (or something?) and fails hard when it's not there.
> We have seen great growth in the use of AV1 even in just a few months, with our latest figures showing that 11.8% of video playback in Firefox<p>Where are people playing AV1 videos?<p>YouTube released an AV1 playlist long ago, and haven't added a single video since release: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZUlNUQAVLwrZS" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqf6gJt7KuHBmeVzZteZ...</a><p>Besides that, I've only seen a few in the wild.
I can't find much info on the fingerprint protection. Has anyone tested it thoroughly? Do we know if it's effective against current fingerprinting methods? Can we actually rely on it, or will it simply be a matter of days/weeks before websites adapt to defeat this protection?
if anyone from mozilla is reading hn, the link on the pop-up box 'Get the Lockbox app' go to 'apple appstore' even if I click on the Google Play icon.
Still no improvement on macOS. Don't know why don't they make it a priority as I have to use Chrome (Safari is missing some stuff that I need).
Apologize if this is not the right place to ask for help.<p>Two days ago when I began to develop a web site backend, a strange thing happened. Visiting "mydomainname.com" in Firefox v66 gave me back error message saying site not found, but visiting "mydomainname.com/index.html" (or index.php) would be fine, the content of that page was returned.<p>After one hour struggle, I used another browser (and my phone) to open "mydomainname.com", and it worked fine! It returned the index.html page. So it's not the issue of the default file setup.<p>Did I miss something obvious? I felt stupid. I am now using Chrome but I would like to come back to Firefox. Thanks for any help.
> Users will no longer be able to upload and share screenshots through the Firefox Screenshots server.<p>I kinda liked that feature, hopefully they replace it with another cloud provider for when you need to take a screenshot for sharing
I tried to see if letterboxing was enabled, but it didn't seem to make a difference.¹<p>Does anyone know whether they included this feature, and if so how to enable it?<p>1: <a href="https://browserleaks.com/javascript" rel="nofollow">https://browserleaks.com/javascript</a> still detects my window size down to the pixel.
>WebRender is gradually enabled by default on Windows 10 desktops with NVIDIA graphics cards<p>Does this mean Webrender in Stable can now be force-enabled for non-Nvidia graphics cards on Windows 10?
The language is a little unclear. AFAIK Webrender is available to anyone using Nightly by force enabling it.
It would be super awesome if Firefox can implement writable streams:<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474543" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474543</a>
Have you ever wanted to reset a HTML element’s style, as if it no styling had been applied? That’s what the `revert` CSS keyword does and you can now use it in Firefox 67. <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/revert" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/revert</a>
<a href="https://webauthn.io" rel="nofollow">https://webauthn.io</a> Fingerprint reader works with Microsoft Edge but it doesn't work with Firefox.
>Suspending unused tabs<p>Didn't they already do that? I remember receiving a spinner whenever I changed between tabs very often since they introduced that multi-process thing.<p>>More power to you with every update<p>*Except when we decide to remotely execute code on your computer using Studies/Normandy/whatever