Mozilla Firefox Browser Stable Version Releases

Just installed the portable ESR to my hard disk (as I always do) and after a few min. of browsing, Firefox froze and then the entire system hung. After an eventual reboot the problem continued. Eventually I was able to do a System Restore and am now using Quantum portable. The only error message was a "transient app hang" from firefox.exe.

 

Same thing just happened with Quantum when I tried to visit this page: hxxps://github.com/IAIK/ChromeZero

 

because some big idiot inserted a lot of animated gifs on that site (10meg and more). 793 frames

||github.com/*/*.gif$image,important

wont help:
no-large-media: github.com true

 

No problem here with FF59.

 

That would explain it. Before the system froze, I saw Firefox using 2.4 *GB* or RAM in Task Manager. This laptop only has 3 GB of total RAM.

 

After updating to FF 59 I am seeing connections to http://www.markmonitor.com before I load any page. Anyone have an idea what this is about?

edit: nevermind

 

Extension perhaps.?

 

Yea, uBlock Origin and NoScript together causing some connection confusion....

 

I started using Download Manager S3 when it still was Download Statusbar, it has a lot of options and it could be used together with VT Hash Check to auto-scan downloads on Virustotal. That functionality seems to be gone in the Webextension, though they now have a built-in Virustotal feature.

 

so, anybody came up with an alternative to tab mix plus?

 

I use "New Tab From Location Bar" and "Open Link With New Tab".

 

@Victek
thanks vic.

 

Your welcome TMP did a lot more than those two add-ons of course, but opening links in tabs was a big part of why I used it. Hopefully TMP will get back up to speed eventually.

 

i hope so,vic.i hope so.

 

@Victek By the latter, do you mean this one? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-link-in-new-tab/

Not compatible with Firefox Quantum?

Also: The development version of Tab Mix Plus (with that functionality) appears to be no longer available? See: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...-version-released.361562/page-78#post-2736174

Yes, I miss that function. Using right-click ...

 

@paulderdash
no, he means this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-link-with-new-tab/
see the "about this add-on" section for details. it reads:

 

Thanks. Will check it out.

 

Mozilla Firefox v59.0.2 Released (available via internal updater 6.7 MB - 64-bit) (March 26, 2018)
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Spoiler: Release Notes v59.0.2

fixed

• Invalid page rendering with hardware acceleration enabled (Bug 1435472)
• Windows 7 users with touch screens or certain 3rd party desktop applications which interact with Firefox through accessibility services may experience random browser crashes. Known 3rd party applicatioins with issues: StickyPassword, Windows 7 touch screen. (Bug 1424505)
• Browser keyboard shortcuts (eg copy Ctrl+C) don't work on sites that use those keys with resistFingerprinting enabled (Bug 1433592)
• High CPU / memory churn caused by third-party software on some computers (Bug 1446280)
• Users who have configured an "automatic proxy configuration URL" and want to reload their proxy settings from the URL will find the Reload button disabled in the Connection Settings dialog when they select Preferences/Options > Network Proxy > Settings... (Bug 1445991)
• URL Fragment Identifiers Break Service Worker Responses (Bug 1443850)
• User's trying to cancel a print around the time it completes will continue to get intermittent crashes (Bug 1441598)
• Broken getUserMedia (audio) on DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Video chat apps either wouldn't work or be always muted (Bug 1444074)

• Reference link to 59.0.1 release notes
• Various security fixes

Firefox 59.0.2 release information
Mozilla released Firefox 59.0.2 to the stable release channel on March 26, 2018 for all supported operating systems.
March 26, 2018
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/26/firefox-59-0-2-release-information/

 

Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.7.3 Released (March 26, 2018)
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Thank you JR and mood