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Firefox 122.0 released (www.mozilla.org)

submitted 2 years ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ipv6 addresses now resolve directly from the address bar. Before it was treated as a search string.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How did people visit sites using ipv6 addresses before this? Ipv6 has been around for years. Seems like a slow pickup

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, on desktop it worked. So you could do it that way. But on mobile, what you had to do was go to a website like Google, add it as a bookmark, and then edit the bookmark and change the web address from Google to the IPv6 address.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 7 points 2 years ago

Crazy. Thanks 👍

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder why this wasn't mentioned in the changelog. Seems substantial

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

Probably because most people are not accessing routers and web servers through their IPv6 addresses and instead they are using IPv4s like 192.168.1.1. I mean, come on, who does that?

[–] Albinjose1231@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow. Awesome changes on firefox android. Well going firefox.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What has changed on android? Android isn't mentioned in that post

[–] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 26 points 2 years ago

It's not in the linked article, but it was part of it in the beta release notes. Now it's on the dedicated Android release notes page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/122.0/releasenotes/):

Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.

Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.

To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as "Android 10" in Firefox for Android's User-Agent string.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Firefox now ships with a new .deb package for Linux users on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint.

Did they go back on Snap?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish Firefox stop re enabling the 2 search bars after every update

[–] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Log a bug if you want to see it fixed.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

How do I log a bug?