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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder why this wasn't mentioned in the changelog. Seems substantial

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably because most people are not accessing routers and web servers through their IPv6 addresses and instead they are using IPv4s like 192.168.1.1. I mean, come on, who does that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, typing an IPv6 address on my desktop I'd annoying enough, and way worse on my phone.

It should still be supported, just not called out specifically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That patch was my only contribution to Firefox, and I didn't research how to update the user-facing changelog. When 122 hits my phone I'll ping the bugs, to notify the 20 nerds who actually care about the problem. Typing IPv4/IPv6 literals is a pretty niche feature on the modern web.

Currently https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox says "Version 121.1.0, Updated on Jan 19, 2024"