News Firefox 70 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

Looks like a lot of good improvements in this version all around, particularly some great performance increases on the mac version!

Firefox 70.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org

Firefox update adds detailed tracking reports and password tools

Firefox update adds detailed tracking reports and password tools

Back in June, Firefox launched Enhanced Tracking Protection, a feature that tries to protect your privacy by blocking more than a thousand third-party trackers by default. With its latest update, which you can download today, Firefox now provides a dashboard that details exactly how the browser...

www.engadget.com

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Firefox to get page translation feature, like Chrome

Firefox's page translation feature will work offline, with a local library, rather than cloud-based translation services.

Firefox to get page translation feature, like Chrome

Firefox's page translation feature will work offline, with a local library, rather than cloud-based translation services.

www.zdnet.com

 

[lxskllr]

Firefox is really getting nice. The tracker protection/reporting is a needed addition to web browsers. I already have it covered with addons, but it's good for people who just use a default browser and/or can't manage sometimes complicated addons.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes I agree.. the tracking protection is a huge win for anyone who cares about how much companies are tracking online and it's going to make a big impact since it is enabled by default.

Also, just read this:

Mozilla: Cloudflare doesn't pay us for any DoH traffic

Mozilla: Cloudflare doesn't pay us for any DoH traffic

Mozilla publishes FAQ document detailing its DNS-over-HTTPS implementation plans in greater detail.

www.zdnet.com

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Firefox, Chrome Bugs Allow Arbitrary Code-Execution

Critical Firefox Bugs Allow Arbitrary Code-Execution

Multiple critical memory safety bugs in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 in particular affect medium and large government entities and enterprises.

threatpost.com

 

[Chiefcrowe]

70.0.1 Released

Firefox 70.0.1, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

www.mozilla.org

 

[Ajay]

Had to clear cookies for ATF to work without crashing the tab after the update. FWIW.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Mozilla will automatically zap annoying notifications

Mozilla Will Automatically Zap Annoying Notification Prompts

Notification permission prompts are, to put it lightly, annoying as fuck. Just because you regularly visit a website, doesn’t mean you want them to bombard you with pop-up notifications. To combat the issue, Mozilla has decided Firefox 72 will automatically block such notifications, shunting...

gizmodo.com

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I booted into Windows 7 Pro this afternoon to do my usual of checking email, shopping, banking, etc. When I launched FF70 (32-bit ESR) I immeidately got a message tab saying the following add-ons were no longer supported by FF52. It was reporting that Tampermonkey and Ublock had both been disabled because they were not supported by FF52. Okay, but the fact that I was using FF6x.x something and it just got upgraded to FF70 makes no sense to say the add-ons are not supported by version 52. This is the second time in as many years (maybe the same 12-month period) in which an update to FF led to add-ons not being supported.

Does anyone remember the fix the last time this happened? I now will use FFF even less in Windows because of this crap.

 

[Steltek]

I booted into Windows 7 Pro this afternoon to do my usual of checking email, shopping, banking, etc. When I launched FF70 (32-bit ESR) I immeidately got a message tab saying the following add-ons were no longer supported by FF52. It was reporting that Tampermonkey and Ublock had both been disabled because they were not supported by FF52. Okay, but the fact that I was using FF6x.x something and it just got upgraded to FF70 makes no sense to say the add-ons are not supported by version 52. This is the second time in as many years (maybe the same 12-month period) in which an update to FF led to add-ons not being supported.

Does anyone remember the fix the last time this happened? I now will use FFF even less in Windows because of this crap.

It sounds like to me, based upon your prior post and this one, that you have a corrupt Firefox profile. You might try to create a new one to see if that takes care of the problem.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I may be in agreement. I am running the same FF version in LM as well and not having this issue.