Friday, May 1, 2020

TenFourFox FPR22 available

TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 22 final is now available for testing (downloads, hashes, release notes). There is no difference from the beta except for outstanding security fixes and updated timezone locales. As usual, if all goes well, it becomes live Monday evening Pacific time.

I don't have much on deck for FPR23 right now, but we'll see what low-hanging fruit is still to be picked.

9 comments:

  1. Lots of the still open bugs look complicated to me, but what about Issue #564 "Consider new HarfBuzz support for AAT fonts"? It only is about four Mozilla bugs (a.k.a. HarfBuzz 2.3.1 M1524102 plus M1509423, M1553889, and M1554193)and it's a front facing feature that sounds like it could possibly make fonts easier to process and read.

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  2. I'm sorry for just braging in with questions: I had to reinstall some of my Macs recently and I am completely unable to log back into Firefox Sync for some reason. It always goes to "unexpected error", unñess I change the user agent to any ESR, where it stays in "loading" forever. Is this a new issue or is it Mozilla's fault for changing APIs or something?
    I've tried with FPR21, FPR22b1, and FPR22.

    Thank you so much for your hard work, as always! I wish I could help you or repay you for your efforts!

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    1. Let me make sure I understand correctly: if you switch to ESR60 or ESR68 (or ESR52?), it starts working?

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    2. Yes, it starts working but it's stuck on loading for ever. I still don't understand why it's not working with the TFF user agent though, until I had to reinstall this machines, sync was working perfectly.

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    3. I'll have to see if others can confirm this. I don't use Sync much myself and remember that supporting it is officially "best effort."

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  3. Hi! I've got a [probably stupid] question. ;-)
    Is there a 'best choice' amongst the available user agents? I think it probably doesn't change anything for the vast majority of the sites except maybe for a few ones that may consider 45 or 52 obsolete, am I right?
    In this case, I suppose choosing 68 is safe or isn't it?
    May you could put something about it in the release notes pages.

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    1. I've just checked the prefs help, so I should rewrite my question as: is it still true that we'd better use the default user agent except if we meet issues? :-)

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    2. Yes, that is still generally true, especially as we get further and further away from mainline ESR.

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    3. Thanks! :-)
      Just an idea: considering that changing user agent will be more and more occasional and specific to certain sites, it might be a good idea (if feasible) to put the choice in a menu, to have it at hand instead of having to dig in the prefs — and ideally to have it stored somewhere so it recalls the right user agent for a given site (but I guess it's too much work...)

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