Noise suppression and auto-gain have improved significantly as well in the release. Waterfox will crash less often due to low-memory on the system, thanks to improvements integrated in to the Firefox code by Mozilla. For now, support is limited to YouTube on macOS 11 and newer with HGR compatible screens. Share options are now found under the file menu in the browser, and HDR video is also supported on Macs. On Mac devices, support for images containing ICC v4 profiles is now enabled. The browser's built-in PDF viewer supports form filling in the new version, and Picture-in-Picture mode supports video captions and subtitles now for select sites. Waterfox supports the AVIF format and hardware accelerated AV1 video decoding, the latter only on certain Windows systems with supported graphics processing units. Next to that, Waterfox's sandbox on Linux prevents access to the X Window System on Linux for web content.Īdditionally, "less restricted referrer policies" are now ignored to prevent privacy leaks, and the browser now supports the automatic updating "to HTTPS using HTTPS RR as Alt-Svc headers". Developers have improved web compatibilities as well. Waterfox G5.0 includes improved referrer tracking protection in Strict tracking protection mode and in private browsing mode. The release notes group most platform changes in the three groups security, media and operating systems. Waterfox G5.0 is based on Firefox ESR 102, which means that it supports the features of that release next to Waterfox-specific features. Most changes are made to the underlying platform. The official release notes list all major changes of the new release. Waterfox users may check the installed version by selecting Menu > Help > About Waterfox in the menu. Waterfox users who want to upgrade right away may download the latest version from the official project website to install it over the existing copy of the browser. ![]() It's everything I ask for in a modern browser.The developer notes that the new version will roll out via automatic updates starting next week. ![]() If it were such a genius idea to have tabs on the left or right, tabs would be on the left or right already. I don't want treestyle tabs, they waste space en masse and that concept just sucks. Why did not a single fork implement this natively yet? Who would say multirow tabs are a bad idea?ĭid somebody ever test this concept on a larger number of users to know for sure if users want it or not? If not, why not experiment with that, mozilla? There were multirow tabs in Windows 95 or something in the system settings - how come, that this concept still is so alien in browsers 20 years later? Didn't everybody use Windows? On one hand slightly improved perfomance (most likely irrelevant increases in speed), on the other hand you most likely will have to mod FF-source natively on every OS now to change GUI stuff (relevant). Seems like the development will become even harder now, it seems: Wasn't the hamburger menu with it's three rows hint enough? (it reminds you of having three rows of tabs, in case you didn't know yet) How Firefox with Tab Mix Plus is still the only browser to date being able to show more than one row of tabs is beyond me. Thank you so much for having developed this addon. ![]() I made a grateful donation to TMP when I first started using it as I was so pleased with it, and I've just today made another one in the hope that it will encourage the developers to not abandon it.įingers crossed! If TMP will not ever work in Firefox 57 and beyond, I will seriously consider sticking with Firefox 56, or whatever the ESR version is, and look at alternative browsers too. If it turns out to be technically impossible to use TMP under the new add-ons system, then so be it, but I really hope that all options can be investigated by the developers before it is abandoned. Just being able to double click on tabs to close them is worth having by itself, as an Opera 12 user for many years I got so used to being able to do that I couldn't believe that hardly any other browser does it natively! I was delighted when TMP gave me that back, and so much more too. I love Firefox generally as a browser, but without TMP it would be enormously diminished IMO. Can I just add my voice to the concern about the possible demise of TMP in a few months time.
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