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Firefox 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Blocked by Default, Smoother Scrolling, and Better Search (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the browser-updates dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release includes autoplaying content (audio and video) blocked by default, smoother scrolling, better search, revamped security warnings, WebAuthn support for Windows Hello, and improved extensions. The company says its main goal with this release is to reduce irritating experiences such as auto-playing videos, pop-ups, and page jumps. Firefox 66 for desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play.

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  1. Irrelevant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since Firefox started focusing on politics instead of programming, they have become irrelevant. Their market share reflects this.

    How I long for the days (and principles!) of the Phoenix browser!

  2. Smooth scrolling? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck smooth scrolling. I don't want scrolling to lag behind what I'm doing with my mouse scroll wheel. We're in 2019, scrolling should be instantaneous, not smoothed-out for idiots who can't follow the pace of their own actions.

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  3. Re:If Only Popup Layers Could be Destroyed by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This functionality should not be in the browser, it should be in an ad-blocker add-on. Corporations are bound by things like anti-trust and competition laws so they can never build a powerful, strict enough ad-blocker to win that war. It has to be an open source effort.

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