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Firefox 117.0 released (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[+] mintycactus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not just about features, there is a list of security fixes.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

8 (!) high impact CVEs fixed. Never forget about the security updates, folks

[–] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yep they are literally THE most important part of software updates.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

pretty much always more important than features but less appreciated

[+] Atemu@lemmy.ml -7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn't warrant a new version really. That could just be a patch.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isn't that what ESR is for?

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ESR is for slower feature releases (~annually rather than monthly) that still mostly get regular critical patches in between. That's an orthogonal topic.

What I meant is that this "major" version of firefox could have been 116.1.0 rather than 117.0.0 because it didn't introduce any significant features that could warrant a major version bump, "just" bug fixes.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't really use the major.minor.bugfix scheme anymore. If they did, they wouldn't be at version 117.

I tend to think of them all as minor updates that add up over time, like a rolling release with numbers.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's not semver (that'd put them on, IDK, 4.something maybe) but the versions before the first dot still signifies "significant" to me which this is not.

That's not rolling release, that's still a form of stable releases. You'll get the feature set of 117 for a month or so with important bugfixes backported from fresher branches. If that ain't stable, IDK what is. The only truly rolling release of Firefox is Nightly.

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Support for credit card autofill has been extended to users running Firefox in the IT, ES ,AT, BE, and PL locales.

macOS users can now control the tabability of controls and links via about:preferences.
Screenshot of new macOS tabability option in about:preferences

To avoid undesirable outcomes on sites which specify their own behavior when pressing shift+right-click, Firefox now has a dom.event.contextmenu.shift_suppresses_event preference to prevent the context menu from appearing."

Other than that yeah

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a developer Nested CSS support is a huge QoL improvement. I enabled it manually previously to work on a site assuming that it would be fully supported by time the site launched, so I'm certainly glad they stuck to their roadmap on that.

[–] traveler@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This update feels like a +0.0.1 release…

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support for improved CSS nesting is now enabled by default.

This is a pretty important change for web developers.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

HOLY

okay well, thanks for letting me know about that, i kinda feel like the technology communities should be organizing a rather large party for this but that's fine that's okay

i guess i'm trying my hand at making websites again!

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 points 1 year ago

"Wake me, when you need me."

[–] Neikon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

117 deprecate appearance: -moz-win-borderless-glass what is the alternative now ?

[–] regalia@literature.cafe -3 points 1 year ago

Pretty boring update