From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168
Highlights ESR115 EOL was extended for Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to March 2025. See the firefox-dev post for more details. This doesn’t impact next month’s planned migration to ...
Anyone know what ScotchBonnet is? Something search-related it seems.
You can get some idea if you check the "depends on" stuff here.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1891857
Seems to be just a code name for some updates to the urlbar.
Thanks!
It's interesting they use code names but never really describe what the features should be. I think they're changing the UI of Incognito Mode too, or at least doing something labeled under "Felt Privacy."
I don't expect it to be user friendly, but surely there is a description of it around somewhere?
the only thing you need to see from the article:
the image shows firefox, and in it a question window of what kind of topics you want to see in your Pocket Recommendations.
The "Save" button is bright, the "Maybe later" is not, the "None" button is non-existent: it's not an option that you dont want to read pocket recommendations!
But at least the topics are curated by experts, so there's that.
Ironically, I don't always agree with the Mozilla brass, but when the CTO said
We consider modal consent dialogs to be a user-hostile distraction from better defaults.
... I kind of agree, in just this on instance. What a dialog to present.
Horray that is exactly what I asked for.
Seriously though they should go the minimalism route. I think that is part of the appeal of Chrome.
