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RSS feeds and Live Bookmarks are back. You can once again preview and follow RSS and Atom feeds. Use the feed icon in the address bar to subscribe to a Live Bookmark folder in your bookmarks toolbar or menu.
- Thanks to the Thunderbird team for continuing to maintain its feed parser .
- Thanks to the Thunderbird team for continuing to maintain its
Disable AI in search results, on by default. UnderSettings → Search , Waterfox now hides AI answers from search engines that support disabling them. You can uncheck the setting if you want AI answers back. #
Proxied search suggestions toggle. Introduced in 6.7.0, the autocomplete privacy proxy can now be toggled off underSettings → Search . #
Hide the Windows media popup. A new Windows option keeps your media keys working but hides the system ‘now playing’ overlay. Setmedia.hardwaremediakeys.overlay.enabled tofalse inabout:config , then restart Waterfox.
- Thanks to @Velian for the PR.
- Thanks to
Changed #
- The 1.org Charitable Search engine has been removed because all partnerships with System1 have ended.
- Refreshed the Bing and Ecosia icons.
- Updated the built-in JPEG-XL decoder from
0.6.0to0.7.4. - Builds no longer bundle the ONNX runtime.
Fixed #
- Disabled an old, weak encryption cipher that would cause some websites to refuse to load.
source & further reading
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