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Firefox 115 released

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Firefox 115.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

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On Linux, middle clicks on the new tab button will now open the xclipboard contents in the new tab. If the xclipboard content is a URL then that URL is opened, any other text is opened with your default search provider.
Mega useful!
- Why is this not on Windows. This sounds actually cool.
  
  Because Windows doesn't have two different copy/paste mechanisms like X does.
  (X has "highlight text to copy"/"middle-click to paste" and "ctrl-c to copy"/"ctrl-v to paste", which have completely different origins (homegrown Unix vs. copying Windows) and don't even share the same clipboard. Frankly, although it can be useful it's also kind of a mess.)
Certain Firefox users may come across a message in the extensions panel indicating that their add-ons are not allowed on the site currently open. We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns.
What is this bullshit? Feel like this will lead to adblocks being blocked for certain websites under the guise of "security", aka: we don't have to justify shit to you.
- It's not going to inconvenience you that much, and the proof for that is that this has always been the case: extensions would never run on e.g. addons.mozilla.org. This makes sense; you don't want extensions to trick you into installing other extensions, for example, or to hijack your sync password.
  It looks like the main change is that this actually loosens this restriction: it looks like some trusted extensions from now on will be allowed.
- To disable "quarantined domains" if you have to : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quarantined-domains
  
  1st thing to do on every release from now on.
  This is a step too far for me. My device, my choice of browser and I am adult enough to make my own decisions.
- Is there even some way to see which addons this applies to on which websites? I can't find anything. Or am I just going to find out randomly while browsing?
  
  I was curious as well so I looked at the git tree. I'm not familiar with Firefox code, but I'm assuming I found the list:
  
  pref("extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains", "accounts-static.cdn.mozilla.net,accounts.firefox.com, addons.cdn.mozilla.net,addons.mozilla.org, api.accounts.firefox.com,content.cdn.mozilla.net, discovery.addons.mozilla.org,install.mozilla.org, oauth.accounts.firefox.com,profile.accounts.firefox.com, support.mozilla.org,sync.services.mozilla.com");
  From here
  So it looks like it's mostly to do with the account system of Firefox. I'm not sure why their websites would need special protection, but whatever. It's not malicious, for now
What happened to the cookie banner reduction? I can't find it in the release notes.
- I think they hit some snags that it wasn't working satisfactorily yet, so hopefully in a future release 🤞
  
  Ah man, this was the main feature I was hyped for. Thanks for the info!

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