Firefox 114 Available With WebTransport Enabled, Continued DNS Over HTTPS Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 114 Available With WebTransport Enabled, Continued DNS Over HTTPS Work

Following last week's release of Chrome 114, Mozilla developers today uploaded the release binaries for Firefox 114 ahead of tomorrow's official announcement...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-114

[rene]

the first Linux distribution has already updated it! https://t2sde.org/packages/firefox

[bemerk]

Hopefully soon we will be defaulting to Encryted Client Hellos independent of the dns resolver method.
I still resolve my dnssec validated records on my own network but don't want the SNI to be visible outside of my premises.
DANE-TLSA would still be valuable on top of it, but i lost hope in Mozilla and the Internet as a whole here.

[archkde]

Hopefully soon we will be defaulting to Encryted Client Hellos independent of the dns resolver method.

How would that work technically? I assume Encrypted Client Hello needs to get the encryption key from somewhere, and that can't be done over plain DNS since that would defeat the point (server name is still visible in the DNS query, so hiding SNI is pointless).

[luno]

> Web Workers can finally load ECMAscript modules
nice
I am waiting for WebGPU support without flags (maybe JPEG-XL too), I find Firefox pretty good when researching something as it can handle multiple tabs pretty efficiently. Chrome and Chromium family always crash with multiple tabs

[bemerk]

How would that work technically? I assume Encrypted Client Hello needs to get the encryption key from somewhere, and that can't be done over plain DNS since that would defeat the point (server name is still visible in the DNS query, so hiding SNI is pointless).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/ describes this.

If my border router does the resolution of dns queries itself , a pi-hole for example or some other internet router, via a privacy preserving way, dot,doh, doq, dns-over-tor, whatever while still providing dns53 cleartext to the devices in my network , firefox will right now refuse to use ECH. It thinks the encryption is worthless, but it might not be as the traffic is still secured against noosy people on the network past my cpe.

[bug77]

especially if you've used WebSockets already to much joy

Can't remember the joy part. As useful as WebSockets may be, load balancers don't know what to do with them. Except reset/close them from time to time.

[hf_139]

WebTransport looks very promising.
Can't wait for this to replace WebSockets.

[euduvda]

Forced to use Google Meet, I'm just hoping for better performance and those fancy background features to work.
Someday...


(Edit) forgive me, too much negativity!
Anyway, congratulations for the new release and continued efforts.

And yes, I know, Google products on a "competitor's browser".

[MorrisS.]

Why repository in Ubuntu propose an mt version one week earlier? Has Firefox provided by flatpak some issue of compatibility?