“Plus some new offline browsing features for Android users.” Source: Engadget Firefox adds a ‘Narrate’ mode to take your eyes off the screen
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” In the meantime, Firefox engineers will introduce another release candidate, Firefox 49 RC 3, to test some of the bugfixes they’ve prepared and gather telemetry and feedback from their testing community. “ Source: SoftpediaDetails Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due to Unexpected Bugs
Firefox 48.x “Stylish Developer Tool is a free browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that adds Stylish style editing capabilities right into Firefox’s Developer Tools. …” Source: gHacks Tech News Details Stylish Developer Tool for Firefox
“Mozilla plans to support plugin-free streaming on Netflix and Amazon Video on Firefox for Linux starting with version 49 stable of the browser. … Mozilla Firefox users on Windows and Mac devices may stream encrypted HTML5 video streams already. …” Source: gHacks Tech NewsDetails Firefox 49 for Linux: Plugin-Free Netflix and Amazon Video
“Today we’re proud to announce the initial rollout of multi-process Firefox for Desktop to our general audience. With this, we’re taking a major step forward in improving Firefox for Desktop. Users should experience a Firefox that is less susceptible to freezing and is generally more responsive to input, while retaining the experience and features that users love. …” Source: The Mozilla BlogMore Exciting Improvements Delivered Today in Firefox for Desktop and Android
“… Mozilla and the Web as a whole have been taking steps to reduce the need for Flash content in everyday browsing. Starting in August, Firefox will block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience, while continuing to support legacy Flash content. These and future changes will bring Firefox users enhanced security, improved battery life, faster page load, and better browser responsiveness. …” Source: Mozilla Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox | Future Releases
“The Ghacks user.js list covering the majority of privacy and security configuration options for the Firefox web browser has been updated.“… please remember that this is my user.js as it is today. I do not expect or want anyone to just run with it. You should know what you are doing. That said, I have kept the warning list at the top up to date, but I will never catch everything for everybody. This list is meant to be a TEMPLATE, please treat it as such. …” Source: gHacks Tech News The most comprehensive Firefox user.js has been updated
“NativeShot is a Firefox add-on that enables you to take screenshots of anything that is displayed on the monitor even outside of Firefox’s window.“What makes NativeShot particularly interesting besides that is the fact that it supports many of the features such as hotkey support, delayed screenshots or an editor that desktop screenshot programs offer. …” Source: gHacks Tech NewsDetails NativeShot screenshot tool for Firefox
“Mozilla launched Firefox Test Pilot a moment ago. It is a new server that lets users test ideas and features that may one day be integrated into the Firefox web browser.“Firefox users can install features they are interested in, and provide Mozilla with feedback.“Mozilla uses the feature to get early feedback for potentially new features that it may one day integrate into the Firefox web browser.“Users help Mozilla eliminate bugs and issues, and may also be vocal about design decisions, and propose changes that improve a feature’s usability or usefulness. …” Source: gHacks Tech NewsDetails Mozilla launches Firefox Test Pilot
New to Thunderbird 45 is the addition of Correspondents column combining Sender and Recipient with an arrow on the left side of the email address. This ‘feature’ was request about 16-years ago (read all about it in Bug 36489). As I mentioned in the previous post, it is not the name change that bothers me, rather it is the arrow that was added. After some reading the later comments I found out the ‘From’ column was not removed, simply hidden and replaced by Correspondents. The fix to this is very easy and it does not involve add-ons or even custom CSS coding: Right-click anywhere on…