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 467 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.

[Grogan]

Firefox 143.0 is out now
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/143.0/

No release notes yet.

[Grogan]

So that Microsoft Copilot shit made it into Firefox 143.0. I don't see that AI stuff because of my about:config but

Release notes:
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/1 ... easenotes/

On Windows, Firefox now supports running websites as web apps pinned directly to the taskbar. These are sites that you can pin and run as simplified windows directly from the taskbar without losing access to your installed add-ons. This feature is not currently available for Firefox installs from the Microsoft Store.

Tabs can now be pinned by dragging them to the start of the tab strip, making it easier to keep important sites within reach.

Copilot from Microsoft can now be chosen as a chatbot to use in the sidebar for quick access without leaving your main view.

When a site asks for camera access, it can now be previewed inside the permission dialog. This is especially helpful when switching between multiple cameras.

The Firefox address bar can now show you important dates and events. This feature supports displaying events (e.g. “Mother’s Day”) in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy regions.

Firefox has expanded its Fingerprinting Protection by reporting constant values for several more attributes of user's computers.

When downloading a file in Private Browsing mode, Firefox now asks whether to keep or delete it after that session ends. You can adjust this behavior in Settings.

Firefox now supports Windows UI Automation, which improves support for accessibility tools such as Windows Voice Access, Text Cursor Indicator and Narrator.

Various security fixes.

Always shiny new crap and security/privacy, but never performance improvements.

[Zema Bus]

I've found that the sidebar is only enabled by default on new Firefox installs, it's disabled by default on all my existing installs that predate the sidebar introduction.

[Grogan]

Yes, I don't use it (I don't like "sidebars"), but I used to have a checkbox to enable AI on it.