Firefox 89.0 released

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  • Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
    Beginning in 89, you’ll notice a number of changes, including:
    Simplified browser chrome and toolbar: Less frequently used items removed to focus on the most important navigation items.
    Simplified browser chrome and toolbar screenshot

    Clear, streamlined menus: Re-organized and prioritized menu content according to usage. Updated labels and removed iconography.
    Clear, streamlined menus screenshot

    Updated prompts: Infobars, panels, and modals have a cleaner design and clearer language.
    Updated prompts screenshot

    Inspired tab design: Floating tabs neatly contain information and surface cues when you need them, like visual indicators for audio controls. The rounded design of the active tab supports focus and signals the ability to easily move the tab as needed.
    Inspired tab design screenshot

    Fewer interruptions: Reduced number of alerts and messages, so you can browse with fewer distractions.
    Cohesive, calmer visuals: Lighter iconography, a refined color palette, and more consistent styling throughout.
    This release also includes enhancements to our privacy offerings:
  • For macOS users, we're introducing the elastic overscroll effect known from many other applications. A gentle bouncing animation will indicate that you reached the end of the page.
    In addition, we added support for smart zoom. Double-tap with two fingers on your trackpad, or with a single finger on your Magic Mouse, to zoom the content below your cursor into focus.
  • Native context menus: Context menus on macOS are now native and support Dark Mode.
    macOS native context menus screenshot

Fixed

  • Colors in Firefox on macOS will no longer be saturated on wide gamut displays, untagged images are properly treated as sRGB, and colors in images tagged as sRGB will now match CSS colors.
  • In full screen mode on macOS, moving your mouse to the top of the screen will no longer hide your tabs behind the system menu bar.
  • Also in full screen mode on macOS, it is now possible to hide the browser toolbars for a fully immersive full screen experience. This brings macOS in line with Windows and Linux.
  • Various stability and security fixes.

Changed

  • Introducing a non-native implementation of web form controls, which delivers a new modern design and some improvements to page load performance. Watch for layout bugs in web pages that make assumptions about the dimensions or styling of form controls.
  • The screenshots feature is available in the right-click context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut to your toolbar. Learn more.

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It auto updated for me, looks good, performance is slightly faster than previous version, may be just a placebo effect or they made some improvements apart from the skin
Islam Gamal said:
Does Firefox have the force dark mode option like in chromium browsers?
and how to enable it. Thanks.
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Yes you can. Go to Extensions and Themes, apply dark mode. If you are asking about dark web pages, then I don't know if it is there in FF.
 
SamBill said:
It auto updated for me, looks good, performance is slightly faster than previous version, may be just a placebo effect or they made some improvements apart from the skin

Yes you can. Go to Extensions and Themes, apply dark mode. If you are asking about dark web pages, then I don't know if it is there in FF.
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yes, i was talking about dark web pages. anyway thanks.
 
Latest v89 wants to connect to Google, UDP, port 443:

Code: 
| Firefox | C:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe | Block | Out | 192.168.x.x | 59411 | 142.251.33.106 | 443 | UDP |

Code: 
NetRange:       142.250.0.0 - 142.251.255.255
CIDR:           142.250.0.0/15
NetName:        GOOGLE
NetHandle:      NET-142-250-0-0-1
Parent:         NET142 (NET-142-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:       AS15169
Organization:   Google LLC (GOGL)
RegDate:        2012-05-24
Updated:        2012-05-24
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/142.250.0.0

I guess this is a result of the newly added AllowedDomainForApps policy?

Edit

well maybe not. There're numerous google-related preferences under about:config.
 
Cortex said:
I've been running Firefox for a week or so mainly because of privacy concerns using Chromium based browsers - IMO the new interface if first class, does away with all my interface issues I had - Great job Mozilla!
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If you open about:config and type google in the search field and see the results. Should we be concerned? BTW, I also like the new interface :)
 
wat0114 said:
If you open about:config and type google in the search field and see the results. Should we be concerned? BTW, I also like the new interface :)
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Looks like all of those are Google safe browsing related. But don't worry, safe browsing in Firefox doesn't send any of your data back to google.
Here's an article that explains how safe browsing works in Firefox.

How Safe Browsing works in Firefox

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