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Firefox 63 Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, Search Shortcuts, and Picture-in-Picture on Android (venturebeat.com)
Mozilla today launched Firefox 63 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release brings Enhanced Tracking Protection, performance improvements on Windows and macOS, search shortcuts, and Picture-In-Picture on Android. From a report: Firefox 63 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. According to Mozilla, Firefox has about 300 million active users. In other words, it's a major platform that web developers must consider. Firefox 63 for desktop brings support for Enhanced Tracking Protection. [...] Firefox 63's Enhanced Tracking Protection blocks cookies and storage access from third-party trackers, which Mozilla says targets the problem of cross-site tracking without breaking sites and impacting revenue streams like the original Tracking Protection. It does this by preventing known trackers from setting third-party cookies -- the primary method of tracking across sites -- but still gives you the option to block all known trackers (under Firefox Options/Preferences).
[...] Search shortcuts essentially pins sites like Google and Amazon on the new tab page. When you click or tap them, you're redirected to Firefox's awesome bar, which automatically fills the corresponding keyword (@google or @amazon in this case) for the search engine. This way, you can type your query, hit enter, and get your search results without having to first load the Google or Amazon homepage. [...] The only major new feature for this Firefox for Android release is a picture-in-picture mode (Android Oreo and up). This means that if you're watching a video in full-screen, when you switch away from Firefox it will move the video into a small floating window, which you can tap to return to the full video player.
[...] Search shortcuts essentially pins sites like Google and Amazon on the new tab page. When you click or tap them, you're redirected to Firefox's awesome bar, which automatically fills the corresponding keyword (@google or @amazon in this case) for the search engine. This way, you can type your query, hit enter, and get your search results without having to first load the Google or Amazon homepage. [...] The only major new feature for this Firefox for Android release is a picture-in-picture mode (Android Oreo and up). This means that if you're watching a video in full-screen, when you switch away from Firefox it will move the video into a small floating window, which you can tap to return to the full video player.
Pocket must go!
Why, just ignore what you don't need.
Adding a single-line URL/Search bar never needed to be added to the codebase.
Conjecture. I represent one of many users who don't see a need for the two to be separate.
Firefox is likely collecting data using Topsites.
Really? Because I don't have Topsites installed. But why are you even guessing like this? The code base is there for you to see.
No would would need a private mode or it's bloat if you weren't collecting data in the first place.
A comment made by someone who doesn't understand what private mode is or why it exists. Pro-tip: It has nothing to do with Mozilla or anyone else on the internet collecting your data.
No one likes looking at square corners on tabs.
Conjecture. Speaking for all users without the authority to do so.
The API changes so radically and so often and so deeply and abrupt depreciating, that you can just forget about having a good extension base.
The API changes were made to decouple the API from the browser code base precisely so they wouldn't need changing in the future. This should make you happy.
Firefox should have supported its own MAF format, but it didn't.
It should tell you something about the MAF format when it's own company dumps support for it from it's key product.