changelog: v105

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

date: 5-October-2022

FF105 release notes
FF105 for developers
FF105 security advisories

CHANGELOG

• all changes
• ToDo: diffs FF104-FF105 issue
• v105 PR is at v105 #1541

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• new in user.js v105

user_pref("privacy.partition.always_partition_third_party_non_cookie_storage.exempt_sessionstorage", false);

• made inactive in user.js v105

// user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories", false);
// user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket", false);
// user_pref("browser.sessionstore.interval", 30000);
// user_pref("network.http.windows-sso.enabled", false);

• removed in user.js v105 (now inactive in section 6051 for prefsCleaner)
  • see consider dropping browser.newtab.preload + cleanup AS #1556

user_pref("browser.newtab.preload", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.discoverystreamfeed", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.snippets", false);

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⭐ your friendly reminder to run prefsCleaner

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 STATS v105: up to and including section 4500, minus the parrots
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    total: 196
 inactive:  43
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   active: 153
  default:  21 (at least)
      n/a:   2 (of the four prefs in 0204, at most only two will apply)
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  flipped: 130 (at most)

[crssi]

Thank you ❤️

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

good milestone of getting down to 130 pref flips: a year ago (v91) we were 167 and the release prior to that (v90) was 188. What a difference a year makes!

PREF FLIPS AT MOST

 105 130
 104 135
 103 
 102 142
 101 
  99
  98
  97 146
  96 147
  95 156
  94 157
  93 169
  92 169
  91 167 (big cleanup for ESR)
  90 188
  89 189
  88 196
  87 195
  86 198
  85 208

FYI: TOTAL PREFS excluding parrots

up to end of 4500
 105 153  (196 -  43 inactive )
 102 164  (207 -  43 inactive )
  91 180  (229 -  49 inactive )

up to personal
  78 244  (353 - 109 inactive )
  68 255  (359 - 104 inactive )
  51 391  (436 -  45 inactive ) 

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

just added some counts. holy guacamole ... v51, our first release on github. 391 active prefs (not flips, IDK what was enforcing defaults), although TBH, I think there was a lot of fluff in that (e.g. redundant/fallback safe browsing, etc) and some deprecated prefs, and probably some semi-dodgy choices, and we were fairly hard-core with opsec etc

here's the cleanout (or shitshow?) in v67 - #732

So by FF68 in July 2019 we were 255 [edit: active] prefs listed, and just over three years later, today on v105 we are 155 [edit: active] prefs listed. At this rate I can retire in 2027 and stay drunk

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

won't be long until CRLite is also the default: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1795710#c18