Firefox 122.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      How did people visit sites using ipv6 addresses before this? Ipv6 has been around for years. Seems like a slow pickup

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
        9·
        8 months ago

        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.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      I wonder why this wasn’t mentioned in the changelog. Seems substantial

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
        6·
        8 months ago

        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?

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, typing an IPv6 address on my desktop I’d annoying enough, and way worse on my phone.

          It should still be supported, just not called out specifically.

      • p1mrx@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 months ago

        That patch was my only contribution to Firefox, and I didn’t research how to update the user-facing changelog. When 122 hits my phone I’ll ping the bugs, to notify the 20 nerds who actually care about the problem. Typing IPv4/IPv6 literals is a pretty niche feature on the modern web.

        Currently https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox says “Version 121.1.0, Updated on Jan 19, 2024”

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    7·
    8 months ago

    Firefox now ships with a new .deb package for Linux users on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint.

    Did they go back on Snap?

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
      13·
      8 months ago

      The Snap is by Ubuntu (and presumably will still be the way Firefox is installed by default on Ubuntu). I think that this is for people who’d prefer not to use the Snap, allowing them to install the .deb directly from the source.

        • Vincent@feddit.nl
          3·
          8 months ago

          I don’t think that PPA was by Mozilla. I believe it was by Ubuntu contributors who volunteered to package Mozilla software (and possibly even the people who used to package the Deb before it was turned into a Snap installer).