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Firefox 61 Arrives With Better Search, Tab Warming, and Accessibility Tools Inspector (venturebeat.com)
On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 61, the newest version of its web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. The release builds on Firefox Quantum, which the company calls "by far the biggest update since Firefox 1.0 in 2004." VentureBeat: Version 61 brings TLS 1.3, the ability to add custom search engines to the location bar, tab warming, retained display lists, WebExtension tab management, and the Accessibility Tools Inspector. Mozilla doesn't break out the exact numbers for Firefox, though the company does say "half a billion people around the world" use the browser. In other words, it's a major platform that web developers have to consider.
That and getting rid of the Pocket spyware.
Disable Pocket for Firefox
If you prefer not to use Pocket for Firefox, follow these steps to disable it:
- In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I accept the risk! to continue to the about:config page.
- Type pocket in the Search box above the list of preferences.
- Double-click the extensions.pocket.enabled preference to toggle its value to false.
Note: Disabling Pocket does not remove Recommended by Pocket entries, if present, on the New Tab page. If you would also like to remove those Pocket recommendations, click the cogwheel at the top right corner of the New Tab page and uncheck Recommended by Pocket. See Hide or display content in New Tab for more information.
Ever since Nov, 2017 when they broke the extensions, their market share has gone down each month. They are currently at only 5.27%. They are irrelevant.
Dear all:
Tired of google changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks?
Tired of microsoft changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks?
Tired of using safari and not having support of big boy tools, like iLO, IPIMI and the web consoles of Orocle and SAP?
Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox ESR.
Current ESR (60) will be supported for about a year, with no new features or UI changes, only security patches and bug fixes. It has the full power of Quantum (which means more or less performance parity with the other browsers).
The version released today is 60.1, which means that ESR 60 has been in the wild for a couple of months now, allowing time to iron any rough edges, and includes a Fix for tab_selected so it works when headerURL is not set (uplifted to 60)...
Also, since the "Great breakage" of PlugIns and Add-ons happened in FireFox 53, chances are most of your plug-ins and extensions already have been ported (or have suitable equivalents).
As we speak, I am downloading it, and will install it over ESR 52, after I delete as much as possible of all the NPAPI Plug-ins that litter my Computer (Citrix, saba-meeting, WebEx, iLO, Huawei IPIMI, etc).
ESR Is the best balance for people who use the Browser as a Tool to "get things done", and not as an entertainment/media consumption.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
"How much more electricity will "tab warming"
Minimal.
Firefox Tab Warming explained:
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01...
For extensions like, Tab Mix Plus, Tree Tabs, Tree Style Tab, etc. If you don't install extensions that manage tabs then don't worry about it.
Former Firebug user here: No, the Firebug replacement doesn't have the community extensions that made Firebug better, but I've found that the built-in Firefox replacement has come around to where it's solid enough as a replacement. And it's definitely not as buggy as Firebug was at times.
The tradeoff of a few extra add-ons for the speed and better stability is a fair tradeoff, IMO.