Firefox 73.0 was released yesterday as the new stable Firefox browser version used by millions of people around the globe. Whether it's to avoid yet another Google spyware product (like Chrome) or just because Firefox offers so much more flexibility through extensions, Firefox is still going strong.
With the new update, Mozilla introduces several useful things that users might have missed before.
One feature seems to be extremely useful for web developers: the console has become smarter, according to the Firefox devs.
Console output can be styled pretty easily via options added to the console.log() function. The following is the example from the Mozilla blog:
If you use this code in your Firefox DevTools console, it should render correctly.
One thing that isn't mentioned very often: Mozilla shifted Firefox's release cycle to a 4-week-schedule. Which means, by this new schedule, we can expect Firefox to go into the high 80s version numbers. Probably to catch up with Chrome?
With the new update, Mozilla introduces several useful things that users might have missed before.
One feature seems to be extremely useful for web developers: the console has become smarter, according to the Firefox devs.
Console output can be styled pretty easily via options added to the console.log() function. The following is the example from the Mozilla blog:
console.log('There has been a problem with your fetch operation: %c' +
e.message, 'color: red; padding: 2px 2px 2px 20px; background: yellow 3px no-repeat
url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAwAAAAMCAYAAABWdVznAAAACXBIWXMAAA
7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAApUlEQVQoz5WSwQ3DIBAE50wEEkWkABdBT+bhNqwoldBHJF58kzryIp+zgwiK5JX2w+
2xdwugMMZ4IAIZeCszELX2hYhcgQIkEQnOOe+c8yISgAQU1Rw3F2BdlmWig56tQNmdIpA68Qbcu6akWrJat7
gp27EDkCdgttY+uoaX8oBq5gsDiMgToNY6Kv+OZIzxfZT7SP+W3oZLj2JtHUaxnnu4s1/jA4NbNZ3AI9YEA
AAAAElFTkSuQmCC);');If you use this code in your Firefox DevTools console, it should render correctly.
One thing that isn't mentioned very often: Mozilla shifted Firefox's release cycle to a 4-week-schedule. Which means, by this new schedule, we can expect Firefox to go into the high 80s version numbers. Probably to catch up with Chrome?