This week an important news has been released for the browser of GNOME: Starting in September, it will support extensions, more specifically those for Firefox. They decided to take the plunge when Mozilla announced support for Chrome extensions when possible, and in a few months the browser also known as Epiphany will be able to, for example, install Bitwarden or the famous blocker uBlock Origin, the best option to remove unwanted agents.
The project says which Epiphany has received support for extensions among many other new features, and you can now try it as we explain in our sister blog. What you have below is the rest of the list of new features mentioned this week, collected in a note titled "extend the web" in reference to support for GNOME Web extensions.
This week in GNOME
- libadwaita has replaced GtkMessageDialog with AdwMessageDialog, which is an adaptive version. And it is that many of the changes that GNOME is working on are related to responsiveness, such as the new Control Center which Ubuntu will use in 22.10 Kinetic Kudu.
- GNOME Software has improved support for showing permissions for flatpak packages.
- The Settings app, also known as the GNOME Control Center, now displays security information. This information is provided by the Fwupd project.
- GLib 2.74 has been released, and will require part of the C99 specification. All supported toolchains (GCC, Clang, MSVC) are already compliant, so if you use a different compiler make sure it supports C99.
- Loupe now has a new gallery view, with smooth image loading and support for swipe navigation.
Without a doubt, the biggest news has been support for Epiphany extensions, but that's all this week in GNOME.