Firefox View slowly getting more features, nice.<p>I hope one day it supports the very real use case of using/abusing browser tabs as bookmarks. I know I am not the only one who keeps lots of windows with currently almost 100 tabs open. Windows represent certain topics, which I finish in a day, in in months, or sometimes never - but still they re-open everytime I open Firefox. I know there are add-ons to help with "tab overflow", but native support would be better.
After updating (from 124) I saw this message, although it wasn't in the release notes:<p>> With this latest version of Firefox, you’ll experience 25% quicker on-average page loads, which means more all-around zippiness anywhere you go online.<p>Any details on how this performance improvement was acheived?
I tried switching back to Firefox to take advantage of their multi account containers, but there were a couple of UX things that kept me from sticking with it:<p>- still no way to remap Ctrl+T to open a new tab in the current container context<p>- lack of native tab grouping, meaning that it works with plugins like OneTab<p>- vertical tabs that play nicely (meaning integrates nicely so that the UX feels good) with some sort of separation feature, for example, tab groups, workspaces, profiles, etc. Leaving this up to extensions seems to lead to a suboptimal experience here.<p>Very willing to try suggestions as I’ve spent days testing every other browser to compare (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Arc, Floorp, Orion, etc) with Safari being my current default. Surprisingly, Edge has the nicest vertical tab implementation so far.
> We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.<p>Seems like people are getting the release notes from somewhere else (presumably from in app). Could someone share it here?
Still no swipe to change tabs on iOS, which makes it a non-starter on that platform for me, and a browser I can't use on every device can't be my primary browser. Bummer, because I really want to use Firefox.
> Users of tab-specific Container add-ons can now search in the Address Bar for tabs that are open in different containers.<p>many thanks to @atararx, the search is finally useable for me!
Hmm, can you disable the av1 support? I use Firefox on streaming services specifically because it uses an older codec which is easy to capture video clips from in OBS
I really wish they change the UI and give me space as the tabs and the address bar takes lot of real estate.<p>Let it be vertical tabs or smaller tabs like chromium
> Firefox now prompts users in the US and Canada to save their addresses upon submitting an address form, allowing Firefox to autofill stored address information in the future.<p>Seems odd this is just coming now in 2024?
Wow, that's a lot of security fixes. If there were so many security bugs, that would suggest that there's a lot more still to be found.<p>Probably going to look into sandboxing the browser much more in the future...
> Firefox now more proactively blocks downloads from URLs that are considered to be potentially untrustworthy.<p>Firefox sends all your download Requests to a 3rd party source then?
> Firefox now more proactively blocks downloads from URLs that are considered to be potentially untrustworthy.<p>I got a hit yesterday from a plugin I wanted to download from blendermarket. After fiddling with Firefox, I downloaded the plugin. It had a binary component that I audited with several anti-virus programs. The rest was Python code, that I also audited. No auditing found anything suspicious. Yes, there is such a thing as malicious binaries in places, but I would like to know more about how Firefox is deciding to flag download links. Is it AI working on generic signals? If Americans can carry guns, while does Firefox doesn’t let me download things? A warning about “our foxy algorithm doesn’t like this egg” would be okay, but blocking the download and forcing the user to jump through hoops is flat disrespectful.