“Firefox 79” Released, with improvements on Developer Tools
July 28, Mozilla released the latest version of the open-source web browser “Firefox 79”. Although there are only a few new features, many improvements are added to the Developer Tools.
Firefox 79 is the latest version after v78, released in June.
WebRender, a 2D rendering engine that uses GPU hardware acceleration introduced in v67, brings support to more Windows users, with support for major Intel and AMD GPUs on Windows 10. As to Windows 7/8/8.1, many GPUs are still on early-beta level, and there is none that brings official support for Linux and macOS.
As to Developer Tools, it includes many significant fixes. Also, it adds “asynchronous call stacks” which allows developers to trace their async code through events, timeouts, and promises. Also, JavaScript errors are shown not only in the Console, but also in the Debugger, and the relevant line of code will be highlighted and display error details on hover.
It also includes bug fixes on SVG title and desc elements and various security fixes.