Firefox 124.0 Release Notes
Firefox 124.0 Release Notes
Firefox View is a sleeper hit. If you haven't tried it recently, try it again.
The icon now looks like this, if you removed it from your toolbar (like I did) and need to find and re-add it:
Yeah, kind of unfortunate that it didn't do much at the start and people were asking themselves why it's there, but from a development perspective, it absolutely makes sense that they wouldn't implement everything ahead of time, before getting feedback from users...
For others who were confused, it's the icon to the far left of the tab bar.
I've used it on my Android phone (open list of tabs, it's at the top next to the private tab selector), but never realized it was also available on desktop Firefox.
Neat!
I actually hid it after thinking it wasn't very good, but that was several versions ago (with a different icon). Thanks for pointing that out, and I updated my comment!
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-set-tab-pickup-firefox-view
For people who disable history who needs to reopen an closed tab. That is what you're talking about?
just out of curiosity why did browsers move to the rapid releases of the >120 version numbers instead of the lower numbers?
In the rapid release model there are no updates bigger than the regularly scheduled releases. So each regularly scheduled release needs to bump the biggest version number. Otherwise the biggest number would never change and there would also be fewer ways to distinguish smaller releases.
That's not necessarily true, they could totally use semantic versioning (but without the requirement for a breaking change) and bump the major version when there's a big user-facing change. For example, Firefox Quantum would've been a great time for a version bump. Or they could do with Year.Release versioning like Ubuntu does.
I think either of those are more useful than the current sequential numbers because they provide some additional information. I like the Major.Minor style so I have an idea of how significant the changes are.
Seems like they'd be better off using something like year.month to give better context
Bigger number better
...probably