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Mozilla Firefox 77 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 2nd of June 2020 04:55:35 PM Filed under
Moz/FF

Highlights of the Firefox 77 release include improved accessibility by allowing screen reader users to access the applications list in Firefox Options, providing labels for date/time inputs for users of accessibility tools and updated text in the JAWS screen reader for some live regions.

This release also implements support for viewing and managing web certificates via a new about:certificate page, and adds Pocket recommendations on the New Tab page for users located in the United Kingdom (UK).

Among other changes, Firefox 77 removes the browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches preference. Users will now have to uncheck the search engines on the One-Click Search Engines option in the about:preferences#search page if they want to hide the one-off search buttons.

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 2nd of June 2020 05:09:45 PM.
  • Install Firefox 77 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS & Fedora
  • 4 Ways to Install Firefox 77 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS

    Firefox or Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla foundation and generally utilized by thousands and thousands of individuals on their daily actions.

    This tutorial will be helpful for the beginners to install firefox 77 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, LinuxMint 19.3, and CentOS 8.1 / 7.x

  • Hacks.Mozilla.Org: New in Firefox 77: DevTool improvements and web platform updates

    A new stable Firefox version is rolling out. Version 77 comes with a few new features for web developers.

    [...]

    Large web apps can provide a challenge for DevTools as bundling, live reloading, and dependencies need to be handled fast and correctly. With 77, Firefox’s Debugger learned a few more tricks, so you can focus on debugging.

    After we improved debugging performance over many releases, we did run out of actionable, high-impact bugs. So to find the last remaining bottlenecks, we have been actively reaching out to our community. Thanks to many detailed reports we received, we were able to land performance improvements that not only speed up pausing and stepping but also cut down on memory usage over time.

    JavaScript & CSS Source Maps that just work

    Source maps were part of this outreach and saw their own share of performance boosts. Some cases of inline source maps improved 10x in load time. More importantly though, we improved reliability for many more source map configurations. We were able to tweak the fallbacks for parsing and mapping, thanks to your reports about specific cases of slightly-incorrect generated source maps. Overall, you should now see projects that just work, that previously failed to load your original CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript/etc code.

  • Pocket provides fascinating reads from trusted sources in the UK with newest Firefox

    It’s a stressful and strange time. Reading the news today can feel overwhelming, repetitive, and draining. We all feel it. We crave new inputs and healthy diversions—stories that can fuel our minds, spark fresh ideas, and leave us feeling recharged, informed, and inspired.

    Connecting people with such stories is what we do at Pocket. We surface and recommend exceptional stories from across the web to nearly 40 million Firefox users in the U.S., Canada, and Germany each month. More than 4 million subscribers to our Pocket Hits newsletters (available in English and in German) see our curated recommendations each day in their inboxes.

    Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of Pocket’s article recommendations for Firefox users in the United Kingdom. The expansion into the UK was made seamless thanks to our successes with English-language recommendations in the U.S. and Canada.

Firefox 77 Released with Minor Changes (So Don’t Get Excited)

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 2nd of June 2020 07:41:22 PM.
  • Firefox 77 Released with Minor Changes (So Don’t Get Excited)

    Case in point: today’s Firefox 77 release. There’s nothing “wrong” with the update per se, but it iss somewhat light on the ‘notable changes’ front — hence the headline advising you not to get too excited.

    Now, if you really love Firefox’s integration with read-it-later service Pocket (which Mozilla bought a few years back) and you happen to browse the web from the UK you can, finally, at long last “enjoy” the ‘best stories on the web’ each and every time you open a new tab.

Firefox fixes cryptographic data leakage in latest security

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 3rd of June 2020 04:50:44 PM.
  • Firefox fixes cryptographic data leakage in latest security update

    We don’t know whether lockdown has anything to do with it, but how time flies!

    We couldn’t believe it either – it’s four weeks since Firefox’s last regular security update.

    If you want to check your version numbers, Firefox 76.0 is now replaced by 77.0; Firefox 68.8.0ESR is now 68.9.0ESR, and the Tor Browser, based on Firefox ESR, is now at version 9.5 and based on 68.9.0ESR.

    As we’ve explained before but we’ll mention again because it’s useful to know, the first two numbers in the ESR version should add up to the leftmost number in the regular release.

    So the current ESR is based on the feature set of Firefox 68, but with 9 updates’ worth of regular security fixes in there, so it is at 68+9=77 in security terms.

    For organisational users of Firefox who are conservative about new software features but aggressive about installing security patches, the ESR version is an excellent compromise.

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