A new version of Firefox (70)…

ByDan Knauss Posted on

A new version of Firefox (70) is out, and Chris Mills covers all the developer-focused enhancements. Firefox has made tremendous advances in developer tools and features — both in CSS and JavaScript — and I've enjoyed using it for the past month as my default browser.

One of the things I miss from Chrome is the language translation feature, but Chris Smith notes that Mozilla is working on something similar to Google Translate. It will work locally and be more private.

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