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Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection

Posted by timothy on from the does-make-it-over-the-hill? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads, and new navigational gestures on Android. Firefox 40 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Changelogs are here: desktop and Android.

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  1. Also some improvements for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "New: Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)."

  2. Re:All URLs are going to Google by new_01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's how to disable it. Not sure yet how this is implemented. https://support.mozilla.org/en...

  3. Re:All URLs are going to Google by new_01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently version 3 of the API downloads the hashed list to the client side rather than sending URL's to mother Google: https://developers.google.com/... So I think I'm going to leave it enabled on my machines. This is reasonable and actually a fairly decent service if that's true.

  4. Re:What new shit do they add to the toolbar this t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    True. Classic Theme Restorer + Classic Toolbar Buttons and Firefox looks as it should look...

  5. Re:Good by Mousit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even worse, "themed to look like Windows 10" means it actively ignores the Win10 system colors settings. FF39 had darker window borders because that's what I set my accent color to. I figured out how to override that stupid fucking "all titlebars must be white" shit that Win10 enforced too, so I could have properly dark-themed titlebars. So my whole Win10 system is dark-themed as I prefer. FF39 handled that just fine and matched the system theme settings.

    FF 40 ignores all of it. It enforces the white window on its own, regardless of system settings. Even worse, there is no color change between a window that is active and one that is inactive, so unless I have overlapping windows I keep losing track of whether I have the Firefox window active or not. It's literally just a flat white AT ALL TIMES.

    Who in the fuck thought ignoring system colors as the default theme was EVER a good idea?