What's New in Firefox 140? A Fair Bit…
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Firefox 140 released with tab unloading, custom search engines, and more. ESR users gain major new features like tab grouping and vertical tabs.
  • mle@feddit.orgEnglish
    26·
    9時間前

    This update makes it much easier to add custom search engines in Firefox. You can now right-click in a search field on a supported website and select “Add Search Engine” to add it. You can edit the name and assign a keyboard.

    Am I misremembering things, didn’t this feature exist already in the past?

    • Gemini24601@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3時間前

      Yes I’m pretty sure that this has been an option. For example when I go to imdb.com and right click on the tab, it prompts me to “add imdb” for search. Many such cases on many different websites. Maybe they changed the term or function.

      • mle@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        7時間前

        Yeah it definitely was keyword bookmarks, but there was an option to “add a keyword for this search” or something along those lines

    • Bjarne@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      9時間前

      Sort of. I believe search engine providers actually have to create an extension to be listed in the setting.

      • mle@feddit.orgEnglish
        8·
        7時間前

        No I distinctly remember being able to right click and add a keyword and bookmark for search field on random website forms, even internal ones on company intranet sites and such

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    19時間前

    I’ve had the unload flag enabled in about: config for months.

    Haven’t used the update yet but there are several related flags to change the appearance and behavior of unloaded tabs in there as well.

    Tab groups are another thing I was using for a while, they still hide some flags to enable some options. Again, there are some neat flags associated with this in about: config.

    There are also some hidden peefs for backing up your data that would be cool if they pushed them.

    Sometimes it fewls lkke I probably spend more time tweaking flags than I do using the browser.

    I use the release version, not nightly or developer. But you can usually find some future features in there. Some good, some not. YMMV.

    As always - Use caution.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    10時間前

    Original ESR is best ESR

    edit: apparently only in regards to software development. Why can’t we have people who aren’t batshit somehow? 🙄

    • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      442·
      14時間前

      Literally the same reason why Ford sells 150s and 250s and Volvo sells 70s and 90s: They are different products and don’t base the version numbers on their competitor.

      • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        12時間前

        Actually, Firefox version numbers were totally independent for most of their history, but Mozilla recently adjusted them to roughly align with Chromium versions to reduce confusion for developers.

        2004 - Firefox 1.0, no Chrome yet 2010 - Firefox 4.0, Chrome around version 8 2011 - Firefox switches to rapid releases 2020 - Firefox and Chrome both around version 85, just by coincidence 2024 - Firefox jumps from 124 to 126 to align with Chrome 126 2025 - Firefox 126+, Chrome 126+, version numbers now track similarly

    • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
      910·
      14時間前

      All the downvotes here kinda got me legit angry. Incurious fools and jokers.

      It’s not a complete answer, but it’s partially because the development of Chrome and Firefox have always been highly competitive resulting in them both adopting rapid release cycles around the same time in the early 2010’s.

      I haven’t read too much into the topic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one. Similar to how Microsoft didn’t want to release an XBox 2 in competition with a PlayStation 3.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Development

      These are just the Wikipedia links, but there is interesting discussion of development history to be had, here.

      • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        10時間前

        Incurious fools

        I haven’t read too much into the topic

        sigh…

        • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          5時間前

          That’s my disclaimer that my research on the topic was less than exhaustive when I posted it at midnight, smartasscool guy. I then when on to offer a legitimate, if simple answer with sources that I linked. I see now the error of my ways in trying to provider a sincere answer to a question instead of posting the same tired dunk as everyone else.

          I have learned the error of my ways and will carry this lesson with me into the future as we build this Lemmy community.

          • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            5時間前

            smartass

            I can sit on ice cream and tell you the flavour.

            Sincerely though - I was just being an ass. I didn’t intend any actual offense. I Apologize. And I am not one of those downvotes.

            • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
              2·
              5時間前

              No worries! I did bring a bit of heat in my response and for that I accept the downvotes.

              It does just make me a little angry to see someone post a question out of genuine curiosity where there is a real answer to be researched and discussed and met with a string of tired dunks. That’s some serious Reddit behavior right there (diss, intended for other posters).

      • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11時間前

        I haven’t read too much into the topic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one.

        Version numbering has no implications on development. Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.

        • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          6時間前

          Version numbering has no implications on development.

          I understand that, so then why change it?

          Firefox released just as frequently before, just that they didn’t increase the major version that often.

          This does not appear to be true.

          That blog post has an aura of marketing speak around it.

          Version numbering has no implication on development and doesn’t even need to align internally and publicly, so somewhere a conscious decision was made to do it this way for “reasons”. I conjecture those reasons are at least partially due to marketing. Is this not fair?

          • EON_GuG@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            23分前

            Well, normally, when people see a larger version of a software, they think it’s more secure, modern, better, and other things.

            For example, not all Chromium projects follow version nomenclatures. Vivaldi, Opera, and Brave all use their own version nomenclatures.