changelog: v95

changelog: v95

• date: 8-December-2021
• foreword: These are all the changes since the last changelog (v94).

FF95 release notes FF95 for developers FF95 security advisories

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CHANGELOG: [all changes]

• links to bugzilla tickets and default pref changes in Firefox are in our ToDo: diffs FF94-FF95 issue
• for all the rest see the full list of pref changes below

⭐ your friendly reminder to run prefsCleaner

🎉 GET READY FOR v96 NOW 🎉

read #1281

• site preference syntax will need to be changed when you switch to Total Cookie Protection (dFPI) next release
• you can add the override recipe and change your site exceptions and site permissions in advance
• see #1281 on how to do all that

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• changed values in user.js v95
  • see #1291
  • all cookies and site data are still cleared except for site exceptions: this change just makes it easier to retain logins for some sites

user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.offlineApps", false); // was true
user_pref("privacy.cpd.offlineApps", false); // was true

• made active in user.js v95
  • see #1286 & https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/commit/4dc53722573a2bcf0052acdebe41951e94f217a1

user_pref("network.predictor.enable-prefetch", false);
user_pref("privacy.window.maxInnerWidth", 1600);
user_pref("privacy.window.maxInnerHeight", 900);

• made inactive in user.js v95
  • see #1282
  • big thanks to @fxbrit 🍥 <- fish cake

   // user_pref("media.peerconnection.enabled", false);
   // user_pref("media.peerconnection.ice.no_host", true);

• new in user.js v95

user_pref("browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel", false); // FF96+
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored", false); // replaces the deprecated one

• moved to 9999: DEPRECATED / REMOVED in user.js v95

user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest", false);

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STATS

 STATS v95: up to and including section 4500, minus the parrots
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    total: 236
 inactive:  54
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   active: 182
  default:  24 (at least)
      n/a:   2 (of the three prefs in 0204, only one will apply)
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  flipped: 156 (at most)

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

ALL HAIL PANTS

Collect the set

• Red Pandas, Puss, Trash Pandas, Sting, Mr Nutterbutter

[Jee-Hex]

Add-ons Search Detection 2.0.0 is now baked into omni.ja (under omni.ja\chrome\browser\builtin-addons\search-detection\) like other built-in search extensions in FF95. Probably related to why FVD Speed Dial was recently banned from AMO.

I’m not sure why I had this bookmarked

Maybe because of this? FWIW in addition to RemoteSettings (1732792), UpdateService.jsm (1733994) and Telemetry (1733481) will also soon fail over outside the proxy. The failover system addon will then be deprecated (1738345).