Category: Browser releases

Hello.

Firefox Desktop Browser 74 was released on the 10th March.

Firefox release schedules

Firefox release calendar
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

Firefox 74

Mozilla provides two release notes. One is for users and the other is for developers.

Firefox 74 release note
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/

From this version, firefox does not open web pages on TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1.

Firefox 74 release note for developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/74

The release note for developers lists news and changes on APIs or developer tools that may be used by web contents developers or firefox plugin developes.

You can get overview of the new release changes and prepare to manage influence on WebClass functions or your learning materials.

Pickup for webclass

TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 is disabled by default from this version.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/its-the-boot-for-tls-1-0-and-tls-1-1/

I think there is nothing special to do for using WebClass with new firefox.

Hello.

Firefox Desktop Browser 73 was released on the 11th Feb.

Firefox release schedules

Firefox release calendar

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

Firefox 73

Mozilla provides two release notes. One is for users and the other is for developers.

Firefox 73 release note
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0/releasenotes/

A page zoom preference was addes. W can set a default zoom rate for reading every web page with offered zoom rate. And it is improved to read web pages with background images in High Contrast Mode on Windows 10.

Firefox 73 release note for developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/73

The release note for developers lists news and changes on APIs or developer tools that may be used by web contents developers or firefox plugin developes.

You can get overview of the new release changes and prepare to manage influence on WebClass functions or your learning materials.

Pickup for webclass

I think there is nothing special to do for using WebClass with new firefox.

Hello.

Microsft Edge 80 was released for Windows and MacOS in last weekend.

Edge on my mac was updated automatically by Microsoft AutoUpdate that check updates of not only Edge but also other MS apps. like MS word, excel, power point and so on.

I'm looking for a page that explain what's new on Edge 80. I expected that each release that count up major version number publishes corresponding release note. But I've not found that yet. Are the changes as same as Chrome 80?

I will keep conitnue to research how MS Edge is.

Hello.

Chrome for Desktop 80 was released on the 5th Feb.

Release schedules of Chrome browser

You can see the schedules below.

https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

Chrome 80

You can see the release notes of chrome browser. Remember you should find the title of "Stable Channel Update for Desktop" because the other product channel's one is also listed.

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/

When it comes to the release note of Chrome 80, here is a url.

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Acording to the page above, there are few text about functional changes instead of a number of security fixes.

For developer, here is a index page of reports about Chrome 80.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/tags/chrome80

Then, this is a new in chrome 80.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/02/nic80

This is a report about JavaScript engine changes.

https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-80

This is a CSS/JS Platform API changes.

https://www.chromestatus.com/features#milestone%3D80

This is a report about the removed or deprecated things.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/12/chrome-80-deps-rems

Some new limitations for pageloading with javascript were added inChrome 80. When a page is being closed, window open function or syncronus XMLHttpRequest will not work.

Pickup for webclass

Acording to the release notes, I think there are nothing special of changes to prepare for using webclass.

Hello.

The new version of Microsoft Edge was released on Jan. 15. This is built on the Chromium engine and the released vesion is 79.0.

We should install new Edge by our hands instead of Microsoft update now. But I heard that current Edge will be updated to new one by Windows update in several manths.

How to get

New Edge is available on not only Windows 10, but also MacOS, android and iOS.

We can get new Edge installer from the web site below for Windows 10 and Mac users. New Edge has new icon. For android users or iPhone users, Google Play and Apple Store provide that.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

Further information about upgrading Edge is here.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/15/upgrading-new-microsoft-edge-79-chromium/

I understood that Edge 79 was provided for users to prepare to switch to new Edge before that will be provided by Windows update. After upgrading, new Edge will be automatically updated on aroud 6 week cycle, that will be like Chrome or Firefox.

References

We can download the installer and get support information here.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

For people who want to know further or newer information, "Microsoft Edge Insider" will be fit them.
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/

The latest information will be available at "community" page.
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/community

The developer blog is here.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/

1) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/15/upgrading-new-microsoft-edge-79-chromium/

2) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/04/08/microsoft-edge-preview-channel-details/

3) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/07/16/microsoft-edge-enterprise-evaluation-roadmap/

What will be changed.

New Edge will be upgraded on around 6 week cycle like Chrome or Firefox and this update is independent of Windows update. There are 4 update channels. The stable with 6 week cycle, the beta with 6 week cycle but newer version than stable, the DEV with every week and the CAN(Cannary) with every night. 1), 2)

Thanks to Choromium engine, new Edge can render web pages as same as Chome and boost the imprementation of HTML5 features and supporting developments of browser extentions. Firefox and Chrome have released new features (e.g. blocking user tracking by website, improving user password protection, imprimenting HTML5 features and so on) in short cycle. Additionaly, the user community have developed a lot of extensions with published browser API and documents. In the other hand, Edge looked steady even though Windows keeps IE11.

New Edge is considered to be used in enterprize. Acording to the article 3), administrators can controll updating of Edge. In addition, new Edge has (will have ?) IE 11 conpatible mode.

User Agent

I captured the HTTP_USER_AGENT of new Edge by every OS. Windows or MacOS versions are identified by "Edg/", Android version "EdgA/" and iOS or iPadOS versions "EdgiOS/".

Windows 10
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.71

Android
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SO-04H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/44.11.4.4122

MacOS
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36 Edg/79.0.309.71

iOS
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 EdgiOS/44.11.15 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15

iPad OS
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 13_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0 EdgiOS/44.11.15 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15

For WebClass users

We found nothing of problem to use WebClass with it.