There is, of course, no mention of how Mozilla can remotely disable both addons and the Firefox browser itself 'for your protection' on the addons-page. The area below your installed addons is spammed with 'recommendations' for additional addons.There is also a new feature for viewing what data and settings extensions are storing.It has a new 'report' feature which can be used to report security and performance issues.The about:addons page for managing Firefox addsons has been changed in several ways: How well it works does depend on the theme, Firefox will not override the theme you are using if it has configured certain aspects.īetter 'Dark Mode' is among the high-lights of this new Firefox release New Addons View Firefox 68 will now make makes sidebars, toolbars and other controls dark in addition to making the page dark when you enable dark mode. Then you have to click the Aa control icon and choose Dark. It's sad and depressing dark mode has to be enabled by clicking the small 'Reader mode' icon on the toolbar. Luckily, you do not have to do anything to keep Firefox looking colorful and happy on Linux as of Firefox 68. GIMPs interface can easily be changed to a happy and colorful one.

Both Krita and GIMP has defaulted to dark themes for quite some time.īeing sad in a dark corner is very popular these days The latest Open Broadcaster Studio version changes the theme to a dark one even if another theme was chosen using an earlier version. The other changes in Firefox 68 seem insignificant compared to all the security problems that are fixed. IceCat is a GNU re-brand of Firefox ESR releases and the current IceCat is using 60esr. There will hopefully be a new GNU IceCat release based on 68esr soon. Apparently, earlier versions have a sandbox escape vulnerability, a script injection problem, NPAPI plugins can do cross-origin POST requests and the list goes on and on. The security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 68 appear to be the biggest reason to upgrade. It is also the basis for Firefox re-brands like GNU IceCat. This is both a regular release and a Extended Support Release which makes it more important than other releases since some distributions tend to use the ESR release for years.

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