🦊 Firefox Release
✅ Betterfox Updates
- Thanks for helping Betterfox reach over 800 ⭐!
- Betterfox received enough word-of-mouth on r/Firefox that we have our own AutoModerator message 😆 🔥 🔥
- This was before r/Firefox mods started throwing a fit about the API changes. (RIP Apollo and my mobile Reddit usage.)
- Check out r/MozillaFirefox (Reddit) or m/firefox (Fedia) if you'd like a return to sanity.
- There's hardly anything to tweak in the recent releases, which is why you haven't seen any user.js updates in a few months. But that's not a bad thing!
- There are some interesting features coming down the pipeline.
- And Firefox 115 ushered in a new ESR base.
- FF115 migrates users of Windows 7/8 and macOS 10.12/13/14 to Firefox ESR.
- I've reported ETP Strict breaking more sites (bugs 1804486 1836071 1817656).
- In the future, I may change Betterfox over to ETP Custom to use the more relaxed internal Disconnect blocklist.
- You can easily modify which internal blocklist is used and change it to
lvl1.- Unfortunately, Nightly forces the
lvl2list when using ETP Strict, even if you change the pref. No luck there.
- Unfortunately, Nightly forces the
📝 Release Notes
- enabled Cookie Banner Handling to dismiss annoying cookie pop-ups where Mozilla has created rules for them.
- This feature still enforces Total Cookie Protection to limit cross-site cookie tracking, even if you Accept all cookies on a page.
- Betterfox prioritizes hiding the banners since Firefox already blocks extraneous cookies unless needed.