Awesome, after reading through the first time contributions I can see my first albeit pretty minor patch is included in this release!<p>Overall contributing has been very pleasant and the people on Mozilla's matrix channels have been helpful getting me on track. But better than taking my word for it, you should try contributing for yourself :)
Slightly off-topic but John Gruber has been writing about the new version of Safari[1] (and it's tabs and how they do or don't work) - and he linked back to some posts of his about Camino, which I'd forgotten about.<p>Camino was the Gecko engine from Firefox in a "proper" Mac UI (unlike Firefox at the time, which was their cross-platform XUL UI). I used to use it as my primary browser and I really liked it.<p>What killed it was Apple launching Safari - which didn't use Gecko, but instead used KDEs QT-based HTML engine. They named it Webkit, Google later used it for Chrome - then forking it - and leading to the situation we have today where the two QT-derived engines (Blink and, because of iOS, Webkit) dominate.<p>Personally, I still use Firefox, mainly because I would like there to be another option, but I also use Safari (and I quite like the colour in the header thing).<p>[1] <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_quote_unquote_tabs" rel="nofollow">https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_...</a>
Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?
> Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format<p>PARTY!<p>I've been waiting for this for a long time. The last big hurdle for this was that color spaces weren't applied correctly.<p>If you haven't taken a look at AVIF, do. You can get a similar looking image in AVIF at half the size as a JPEG. I find AVIF's image artifacts preferable to JPEG's.
A new setting not mentioned in the release notes:<p>layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override = 1<p><pre><code> # An override for prefers-color-scheme for content documents.
#
# Dark (0), light (1), or system (2).
</code></pre>
I use it to force webpages to use light theme while having dark browser UI elements (menus, tabs etc).
I am currently trying Ubuntu for the first time in a long while and it comes with Firefox as the default browser.<p>My problem is that Firefox has a "snapping" scroll behavior that I find very annoying. When I move my fingers on the touchpad of my laptop, that does not immediately move the page. Instead, it waits until I moved a certain distance and then moves in one big swoosh.<p>Starting Firefox from the command line like this solves it:<p>MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox<p>Is there a way to make this permanent or accomplish the same via a setting in about:config?
Here's what I desperately want from Firefox, which I currently have from Chrome: isolated browser profiles tied to an account. I have two browser windows open at all times, one for my personal stuff and one for my work stuff. I want to keep those two windows totally isolated, where I log in with all my work accounts in one window, and all my personal accounts in the other window. Chrome does this by tying the window to a Gmail account, I'd happily sign up for two Firefox accounts if I could do this.
I hope we can turn off the "unsafe download" thing. I download files every day that I know are perfectly safe, precisely because the file will only ever be downloaded once, by me, because I just built it in Gitlab.
I'd love to move to FF, but it has a virtual desktop bug dating back to 2007 [0], which is a showstopper for me.<p>When reopening FF, e.g., after restarting Win or Linux, all FF windows are restored to a single virtual desktop, even if they were on different desktops previously. Chromium-based browsers don't seem to have this problem.<p>They tried fixing it a few times [1,2], but the bug persists, and I am not aware of any add-ons that could serve as workarounds.<p>0. <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650</a>
1. <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401143" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401143</a>
2. <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890125" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890125</a>
Anyone else getting hit with a 404 when trying to visit the 'Learn More' links for SmartBlock 3.0 or the referrer tracking protections?<p><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/10/05/firefox-93-features-an-improved-smartblock-and-new-referrer-tracking-protections/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/10/05/firefox-93-feat...</a>
<i>When available system memory is critically low, Firefox on Windows will automatically unload tabs based on their last access time, memory usage, and other attributes. This should help reduce Firefox out-of-memory crashes. Switching to an unloaded tab automatically reloads it.</i><p>This is why I can't switch to firefox, chrome is better at this, doesn't wait until 'system memory is critically low' and supports all platforms not just windows.
I got a kick out of the section about the Y10K problem in the docs for the new datetime-local input type:<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local#the_y10k_problem_often_client-side" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...</a>
To me, one of the biggest news is that <input type="datetime-local"> is now implemented[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/datetime-local" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...</a>
I'd wish Firefox wasn't locked to an old lts version on my work laptop; it's bad enough some websites won't open (like regex101 or twitter) and I have to switch to chrome for those