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Firefox 61 Arrives With Better Search, Tab Warming, and Accessibility Tools Inspector (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the it's-here dept.

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.

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  1. Last version of 52ESR by xack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who needs 52ESR will be out of luck soon as its the last patch cycle. Those with Windows XP, XUL and NPAPI requirements are affected. Also Chrome is discontinuing Marvericks support, which also throws perfectly working Macs into the trash. Don’t give me the “it’s old” spiel, Mavericks is less than 5 years old.

    1. Re:Last version of 52ESR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      RIP Firefox. Nearing time to drown your sorry Chrome-clone ass. Long live Waterfox under a Pale Moon.

    2. Re:Last version of 52ESR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I too support projects with unskilled developers numbering in the single digits.

  2. Re:Tab warming? by Bradmont · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is what I do to. My first reaction after looking up the buzzword was, "People use the mouse to change tabs?"

  3. Why whould anyone want this? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From TFA:

    There’s also a small update to extensions built using the WebExtension API. WebExtensions can now hide tabs and manage the behavior of the browser when a tab is opened or closed.

    And how do I disable it? Seriously, why would we want the browser to do stuff like this? Just what I need, more seemingly random things happening that I can't see and/or presumably control ...

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  4. Re:Marketing speak by SeaFox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If 15% is your cutoff, only Chrome will count: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

    Yeah... that's pretty much how they think.

  5. Re:Tab warming? by Teun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Indeed we use the mouse to switch tabs, how else to quickly jump from tab 14 to tab 48?

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