Mozilla Firefox

[Zema Bus]

I hate when they do that too. I encountered one of those sites a few days ago, I went to a site that I thought might have what I was searching for only to find it wasn't even a good site and I immediately went to go back but my back button was grayed out, so I couldn't back out to my carefully thought out search query.

[Grogan]

There's a Firefox 141.0.2 today. They skipped .1 again. No release notes yet, but all the bits are available here:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/141.0.2/

[Grogan]

I see there's a Firefox 141.0.3 now:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/141.0.3/

No idea what it's about (no release notes yet).

P.S.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/1 ... easenotes/

Fixed a regression that caused issues on sites built with the Svelte framework. (Bug 1980081)

Fixed an issue where cryptominers were not listed as blocked in Strict Tracking Protection. (Bug 1977066)

[Grogan]

Firefox 142.0 is out today, but of course, no release notes
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/142.0/

Apparently a new feature is that the extensions API now has AI language model support. Oh boy.

P.S. Firefox 142.0 Release Notes:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/1 ... easenotes/

Best to just see the link v.s. a paste, as there are graphics depicting major feature changes.

[Grogan]

Firefox 142.0.1 now, with release notes:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/1 ... easenotes/

Dragging multiple non-adjacent tabs in horizontal tab strip mode now correctly moves them together as a group. (Bug 1982933)

Dragging multiple tabs no longer causes toolbar unresponsiveness or visual glitches. (Bug 1984342)

Fixed an issue where the text cursor appeared in the wrong location.. (Bug 1984045)

Fixed a crash related to gamepad use, particularly on macOS. (Bug 1870379)

Fixed an issue where the expand on hover feature in the sidebar would sometimes stop working. (Bug 1982129)

Fixed a crash in KDE Plasma when using certain custom window decorations. (Bug 1984823)

[Zema Bus]

Microsoft Copilot has been added to Firefox Nightly, in the sidebar.

Microsoft CoPilot chatbot support has added in the latest Firefox Nightly builds.

As the testing bed for features Mozilla wants to add to stable builds (though not all make it – eh, rounded bottom window corners?), this is something you can expect to find in a future stable update.

Firefox’s sidebar already offers access to popular chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Le Chat’s Mistral and Google’s Gemini. It previously offered HuggingChat too.

The latest Firefox Nightly builds add Microsoft’s CoPilot to the mix

From omgubuntu.co.uk

firefoxNightlyCoPilot.jpg (85.77 KiB) Viewed 80 times

At least it's only in the sidebar.

[Grogan]

Well, as long as they keep the about:config directives so I can completely disable that silly shit (and don't even see the checkbox in the sidebar UI to enable it), I don't care

I have no interest in AI generated results at this time.