Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
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Mozilla Firefox 119 open-source web browser is now available to download with the ability to import Chrome extensions, improved Firefox View.
  • bundes_sheep@lemmy.oneEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts in Enhanced Tracking Protection strict mode to mitigate font fingerprinting.

    I’m happy to see this. It’s crazy how hard advertisers try to determine who I am when I’m actively attempting not to be shown their garbage and won’t buy it from their links. Browsers should be sending far fewer html headers, and restricting the listed fonts to a common list is a good step forward.

  • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    9 months ago

    my list of cool features:

    Gradually rolling out in Fx119, Firefox now allows you to edit PDFs by adding images and alt text, in addition to text and drawings.

    If you’re migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.

    As part of Total Cookie Protection, Firefox now supports the partitioning of Blob URLs, this mitigates a potential tracking vector that third-party agents could use to track an individual.

    The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts in Enhanced Tracking Protection strict mode to mitigate font fingerprinting.

    Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now available to Firefox users, delivering a more private browsing experience. ECH extends the encryption used in TLS connections to cover more of the handshake and better protect sensitive fields.

    Firefox is now available in the Santali (sat) language.

    Several enhancements have been made to the Inactive CSS styles feature. This feature assists in identifying CSS properties that have no effect on an element. Pseudo-elements such as ::first-letter, ::cue, and ::placeholder are now fully supported.

    The JSON viewer is particularly useful for debugging REST APIs, as it displays formatted JSON responses. Now, if the JSON is invalid or broken, it automatically switches to a raw data view, improving the user experience.

    Grouping of items in an array (and iterables) is now easier by using the methods Object.groupBy or Map.groupBy.

  • tun@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    If you’re migrating your data from Chrome, Firefox now offers the ability to import some of your extensions as well.

    Nice.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      I think this is misleading. They’re offering to match your Chrome extension with an equivalent Firefox extension. But they are not providing an extension compatibility layer to run Chrome extensions.

      • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I dont think that is misleading. They’re functionally the same extensions made by the same authors, if you trust one you trust the other.

      • tun@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yeah. I agree with you. New non-tech-savvy person might misunderstand.

        However, new user rarely look at the changelog. So I think this wording does not affect much.

        • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          And whether this is using equivalents or a compatibility layer, to the average non tech savvy person is irrelevant. They don’t care as long as it’s the extension they had and it works.

      • Onihikage@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I recently found Sideberry which looks like an improvement over TST, but I’ve been putting off switching to it because I would have to reorganize 431 tabs :')

    • Kena@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      There are extensions that do that, use those along with userChrome and you can effectively replicate the look and feel of any other browser.