Ipv6 addresses now resolve directly from the address bar. Before it was treated as a search string.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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How did people visit sites using ipv6 addresses before this? Ipv6 has been around for years. Seems like a slow pickup
Well, on desktop it worked. So you could do it that way. But on mobile, what you had to do was go to a website like Google, add it as a bookmark, and then edit the bookmark and change the web address from Google to the IPv6 address.
Crazy. Thanks 👍
I wonder why this wasn't mentioned in the changelog. Seems substantial
Probably because most people are not accessing routers and web servers through their IPv6 addresses and instead they are using IPv4s like 192.168.1.1. I mean, come on, who does that?
Wow. Awesome changes on firefox android. Well going firefox.
What has changed on android? Android isn't mentioned in that post
It's not in the linked article, but it was part of it in the beta release notes. Now it's on the dedicated Android release notes page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/122.0/releasenotes/):
- Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.
- Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.
- To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as "Android 10" in Firefox for Android's User-Agent string.
Firefox now ships with a new .deb package for Linux users on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint.
Did they go back on Snap?
I wish Firefox stop re enabling the 2 search bars after every update
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