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'See the Future Firefox Right Now' (cnet.com)
"Mozilla is prepping a new version of Firefox in an effort to rally in the race for browser supremacy," writes CNET's Matt Elliott, who decided to test drive a new nightly build of Firefox 57 which "promises fast speeds and a new look." An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Firefox 57 has added a screenshot button in the top-right corner... It highlights different elements on a page as you mouse over them, or you can just click-and-drag the old-school way to take a screenshot of a portion of a page. Screenshots are saved within Firefox. Click the scissors button and then click the little My Shots window to open a new tab of all of your saved screenshots. From here you can download them or share them... The bookmark and Pocket buttons have been moved from the right of the URL bar to inside it, but the Page Actions button is new. Click it and you'll get a small menu to Copy URL, Email Link and Send to Device. The Page Actions menu also has bookmark and Pocket buttons, which seems redundant at first but then I realized you can remove those items from the URL bar by right-clicking them. You can't remove the new, triple-dot Page Actions button...
As with any prerelease software, Firefox Nightly 57 is meant for developers and will likely exhibit strange and unstable behavior from time to time. Also, there is no guarantee that the final release will look like what you see in the current version of Nightly. For example, I have read reports that the search box next to Firefox's URL bar may be on the chopping block. It's part of the design of the current Nightly build but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets dropped between now and November since most web users have grown accustomed to entering their search queries right in the URL bar. Just as you can with the current version of Firefox, however, you can customize which elements are displayed at the top of Firefox Nightly 57, including the search box.
As with any prerelease software, Firefox Nightly 57 is meant for developers and will likely exhibit strange and unstable behavior from time to time. Also, there is no guarantee that the final release will look like what you see in the current version of Nightly. For example, I have read reports that the search box next to Firefox's URL bar may be on the chopping block. It's part of the design of the current Nightly build but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets dropped between now and November since most web users have grown accustomed to entering their search queries right in the URL bar. Just as you can with the current version of Firefox, however, you can customize which elements are displayed at the top of Firefox Nightly 57, including the search box.
I already have been seeing future Firefox for years. It's called Chrome.
Yup, Firefox has been gradually becoming a Chrome clone for a long time now. Dumbing things down, removing options, and now in their final move, making it impossible to have extensions more powerful than Chrome. For some reason Mozilla is absolutely convinced they can increase market share by shitting on their power users and becoming Chrome. It's not going to work. Alienating your entire loyal userbase by breaking everything that makes them choose your product over the alternative, then hoping more people switch from that alternative (despite pissing off the very people who recommend/install browsers for non-technical people) is the most batshit crazy business model I've ever seen. But they're 100% dedicated to it, not giving a flying fuck that opposition is near universal. They've even gone so far as having obvious employee shills lie about not working for them and preaching the benefits with language straight from their marketing department. They think they know better than their loyal users, and are going to be crying when ditching powerful extensions finally pushes them to rounding error share.
What set of instructions to start a snipping tool works on all supported Windows versions (including versions after the deprecation of MSPaint)
Windows key + "sni" + return. It is universal across any Windows version that isn't a massive security problem and shouldn't be in active use.
Regardless of how well this works, it is better and far more consistent than relying on apps to reinvent every frigging wheel.
all supported OS X/macOS versions, and all major X11/Linux distributions?
Who cares? No seriously who does? There has never been a cross OS requirement for any end user functionality. It sure as hell won't be improved by a rarely used browser failing in a very busy market place.
one in Firefox would work on all major desktop operating systems
You're assuming a lot about how it will work, what it will do, and just plain ignoring the fact that the odds of you finding a computer with Firefox on it at random that you don't control are lower than your requirement to have a consistent method of doing this across 3 OSes.