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Firefox 122.0 released (www.mozilla.org)
submitted 9 months ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ipv6 addresses now resolve directly from the address bar. Before it was treated as a search string.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 7 points 9 months ago

Crazy. Thanks 👍

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 points 9 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 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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"

[–] Albinjose1231@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

Wow. Awesome changes on firefox android. Well going firefox.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure why that's a new thing. I've been using Mozilla's PPA since canonical introduced this snap-by-default crap back in 22 I think.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 9 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).

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish Firefox stop re enabling the 2 search bars after every update

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I... don't have this problem, and I've been on Firefox for well over a decade. I have used the combined address/search bar since it was an option.

[–] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Log a bug if you want to see it fixed.