Best of Firefox — July 2023

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   Community Picks·3y

   The new @font-face syntax

   The new @font-face syntax has also been supported since Safari 17, Firefox 106 and Chrome 108. The new syntax looks like this: What’s changed? Instead of using strings, we use keywords. There are certain technical capabilities of fonts that the file type alone doesn't tell us.

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   The Register·3y

   Arc is a radical new take on the web browser

   Arc is a radical new take on the web browser. It is based on the Chromium engine, and comes from a startup which modestly calls itself the Browser Company of New York. Arc's sidebar contains at least three different functions, all integrated into one, and it also attempts to automatically manage your tabs for you.

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   asayer·3y

   Playwright vs Puppeteer: which to choose?

   Playwright and Puppeteer are headless browsers designed for end-to-end (E2E) automated testing of web apps. Both are go-to for web automation programmers’ toolkits. Tests ensure that code behaves as expected and catches bugs early on.

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   Hacker News·3y

   A Firefox-only minimap

   Firefox is the only browser that supports the fancy element() CSS function. The function allows you to display images of arbitrary HTML elements on your page.

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