Firefox 42 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/42.0/releasenotes

 

[nemesismk2]

i will try out firefox 42 now that i am not getting any crashes with firefox 41.

 

[hasu]

Is that a news? I thought firefox releases a new version everyday, at least that is what it felt like....

 

[ninaholic37]

Is that a news? I thought firefox releases a new version everyday, at least that is what it felt like....

It's news because lots of people reported crashing in Firefox 41

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes and it also has several new features as detailed here:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/03/f...cators-and-background-link-opening-on-android

 

[balloonshark]

The new private browsing mode goes further than just not saving your browsing history (read: porn sites) — the added tracking protection means Firefox also blocks website elements (ads, analytics trackers, and social share buttons) that could track you while you’re surfing the web, and it works on all four platforms. The feature is almost like a built-in ad blocker, though it’s really closer to browser add-ons like Ghostery and Privacy Badger because ads that don’t track you are allowed through.

Wait a minute. They have been removing features calling it bloat and telling people to install add-ons to get the features back. Now they turn around and add bloat when people were already using privacy add-ons

Oh and way to stick it to your existing extension developers.

 

[postmortemIA]

Wait a minute. They have been removing features calling it bloat and telling people to install add-ons to get the features back. Now they turn around and add bloat when people were already using privacy add-ons

Oh and way to stick it to your existing extension developers.

Last 4-5 "features" were pretty much forced Firefox alternatives to popular addons.

If they are so willing to copy Google, then they could do the thing that Google does in Chrome - their own plugins are optional.

 

[jhansman]

I only use Edge. What is this "Firefox" of which you speak?

 

[ronbo613]

Cyberfox is working funky on 42.0, better than 41.0, which didn't work at all, but I'm going to wait to update Firefox from 40.0 until a version works close to 80-90%

 

[Spacehead]

The new private browsing mode goes further than just not saving your browsing history (read: porn sites) — the added tracking protection means Firefox also blocks website elements (ads, analytics trackers, and social share buttons) that could track you while you’re surfing the web, and it works on all four platforms. The feature is almost like a built-in ad blocker, though it’s really closer to browser add-ons like Ghostery and Privacy Badger because ads that don’t track you are allowed through.

Wait a minute. They have been removing features calling it bloat and telling people to install add-ons to get the features back. Now they turn around and add bloat when people were already using privacy add-ons

Oh and way to stick it to your existing extension developers.

I noticed Ghostery acting weird after the upgrade to 42. As you surf around the web the trackers it displays accumulate with each website you visit.

So ya, either stick to the add-on approach or not. Make up your mind Mozilla.

 

[lucia]

I will give Firefox another try

 

[bononos]

Wait a minute. They have been removing features calling it bloat and telling people to install add-ons to get the features back. Now they turn around and add bloat when people were already using privacy add-ons

Oh and way to stick it to your existing extension developers.

To be fair, the less extensions the better since current browsers don't have a way to partition user data like filled in username/passwords on banking websites from certain extensions (like Lastpass) from all other extensions. So every browser extension has access to everything you send/receive including urls and passwords that I mentioned earlier.

Let me know if I'm wrong or if FF/Chrome handles extensions differently.

 

[JimmiG]

I'm more excited about this:

New: Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting

About time. No more guessing which tab is blasting that movie trailer out at 150% volume at 2 a.m.

As for the mobile version - currently only Dolphin seems to offer a true full-screen mode, so unless that's changed I'm sticking with that on mobile.

 

[Mem]

Cyberfox is working funky on 42.0, better than 41.0, which didn't work at all, but I'm going to wait to update Firefox from 40.0 until a version works close to 80-90%

I'm on the 64 bit Firefox beta channel, just got an update from 42 to version 43.0b1, beta versions working great here.

Only downside is some extensions may not work, it checks anyway and lets you know.

 

[Mem]

I only use Edge. What is this "Firefox" of which you speak?

Third party browser by Mozilla(free) can download it from here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/products/

 

[Mem]

Btw if you use Forecastfox weather extension, it does not work with 64 bit FF v43.01b, but you can get it working fine using this link/version https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/forecastfox-fix-version/developers

It was my only extension that would not work on initial install of 64 bit FF 43.01b update but took me all of two mins to fix lol.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I'm still on 35.


Might ... have ... to upgrade. :hmm:

 

[Chiefcrowe]

You probably should since 35 has a lot of vulnerabilities now. At least you could go to the ESR version, which has all the sec. patches on it.

I'm still on 35.


Might ... have ... to upgrade. :hmm:

 

[destrekor]

To be fair, the less extensions the better since current browsers don't have a way to partition user data like filled in username/passwords on banking websites from certain extensions (like Lastpass) from all other extensions. So every browser extension has access to everything you send/receive including urls and passwords that I mentioned earlier.

Let me know if I'm wrong or if FF/Chrome handles extensions differently.

IIRC, if you get the main binary release of Lastpass, it will utilize security for its browser addons, where otherwisr Firefox and Chrome so not protect the content of any extension.

Also IIRC, I believe IE11 is actually one browser that DOES protect the user data, but that protection can be overcome in Lastpass's case, at least if the attacker already has data on you and has access to your system.

I would definitely like to see better protection methods for Lastpass content in particular, and browser user data in general. Not sure why this is still not the norm in this privacy-hyperaware world in which we live.

 

[Jeff7]

Looks like this version does weird things with frames.

At work, the custom database interface uses frames: One on the left for the menus, and then the content frame. The URL in the address bar is for the main page.

Any tabs leftover from the previous session will now open incorrectly.

Example:
Tab A
Tab B
Tab C
Tab D

So normally, if I'd restart Firefox with Tab D open, Firefox would come back to Tab D. If I'd open Tab C, it would reload the page from the server.

Now, here's how the sequence works:
Restart Firefox with Tab D open.
Firefox comes back to Tab D.
If I open Tab C, it loads the content that was shown in Tab D, rather than Tab C's content. :\

Grr.

 

[Puffnstuff]

When I clean installed 10 this morning I ended up having to install 42 and so far it's working fine. I miss being able to use Norton vault and maybe one day they will update it to work with 42.

 

[pcslookout]

I actually like Firefox 42 and thankfully one of my important addons came out with a signed version!

 

[nemesismk2]

i am still not getting any problems with firefox 42 so well done mozilla

 

[Puffnstuff]

FF 42 hasn't crashed at all since I installed it so they must have done something right.

 

[Printer Bandit]

42. lol @ that high version number.