Firefox 115 released
Firefox 115 released
Certain Firefox users may come across a message in the extensions panel indicating that their add-ons are not allowed on the site currently open. We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns.
What is this bullshit? Feel like this will lead to adblocks being blocked for certain websites under the guise of "security", aka: we don't have to justify shit to you.
It's not going to inconvenience you that much, and the proof for that is that this has always been the case: extensions would never run on e.g. addons.mozilla.org. This makes sense; you don't want extensions to trick you into installing other extensions, for example, or to hijack your sync password.
It looks like the main change is that this actually loosens this restriction: it looks like some trusted extensions from now on will be allowed.
To disable "quarantined domains" if you have to : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quarantined-domains
Is there even some way to see which addons this applies to on which websites? Or am I just going to find out randomly while browsing?
I was curious as well so I looked at the git tree. I'm not familiar with Firefox code, but I'm assuming I found the list:
pref("extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains", "accounts-static.cdn.mozilla.net,accounts.firefox.com, addons.cdn.mozilla.net,addons.mozilla.org, api.accounts.firefox.com,content.cdn.mozilla.net, discovery.addons.mozilla.org,install.mozilla.org, oauth.accounts.firefox.com,profile.accounts.firefox.com, support.mozilla.org,sync.services.mozilla.com");From here
So it looks like it's mostly to do with the account system of Firefox. I'm not sure why their websites would need special protection, but whatever. It's not malicious, for now
“Security concerns” is such a bullshit reason. If an add on is such a security concern, why host it in the first place?
I’m disappointed Mozilla is going down this path, but not surprised.
To me it sounds more like they plan on blocking all addons (other than some whitelist of "trusted" addons) on important pages (like the Google login page maybe?).
You can always download the xpi and install it manually
this doesn't block you from installing extensions. It blocks them from running on certain protected pages, whatever they may be
at least it can be disabled in the prefs for now
I just hope that Librewolf will remove this.
On Linux, middle clicks on the new tab button will now open the xclipboard contents in the new tab. If the xclipboard content is a URL then that URL is opened, any other text is opened with your default search provider.
Mega useful!
Why is this not on Windows. This sounds actually cool.
Because Windows doesn't have two different copy/paste mechanisms like X does.
(X has "highlight text to copy"/"middle-click to paste" and "ctrl-c to copy"/"ctrl-v to paste", which have completely different origins (homegrown Unix vs. copying Windows) and don't even share the same clipboard. Frankly, although it can be useful it's also kind of a mess.)
Dang, yeah!
Of particular note: This is the last version that will support macOS 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra), and 10.14 (Mojave). They'll get an extended support release of Firefox 115 that'll receive security updates for ~1 year. Source: mozilla.org
Most important for some of us
Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux.
Yey! Test it by starting
intel_gpu_topand than playing video in firefox, if row "Video" goes over 0.0% it is working!intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 921/ 925 MHz; 38% RC6 1.78/10.41 W; 813 irqs/s IMC reads: 3883 MiB/s IMC writes: 1632 MiB/s ENGINES BUSY MI_SEMA MI_WAIT Render/3D 12.82% |████▊ | 0% 0% Blitter 0.00% | | 0% 0% Video 27.99% |██████████▍ | 0% 0% VideoEnhance 0.00% | | 0% 0% PID NAME Render/3D Blitter Video VideoEnhance 578 RDD Process | || ||███ || | 32431 firefox-bin |▊ || || || | 2301 elogind-daemon |▌ || || || | 4151 pcmanfm-qt | || || || | 4153 keepassxc | || || || | 4154 pasystray | || || || | 4521 slack | || || || | 6067 chrome | || || || | 29222 jcef_helper | || || || |Of course, you need second monitor, it goes down to 0 if video is not visible, since Firefox is not rendering it.