[Desktop] Release Notes for 1.17.x Release #2 (Release Channel)

[LaurenWags]

Release Notes:

• Brave 1.16.68 on Mac is reporting that WebGL GLSL highp precision isn't supported. (#12366)
• Google Maps trackpad zoom is oversensitive . (#12310)
• [Desktop] Improved top site tiles on the New Tab Page. (#12772)
• remove Bitcoin.com widget from NTP. (#12699)
• Upgrade from Chromium 87.0.4280.66 to Chromium 87.0.4280.67. (#12793)
• Add Uphold Equities Card. (#12276)
• P3A for New Tab Page. (#12267)
• [Desktop] race condition with Greaselion and localizations. (#12264)
• Brave Ads fail to migrate confirmations.json if upgrading from builds prior to 1.12.2 if ads were switched off. (#12260)
• Brave Ads landed events should only be triggered if the user clicked the ad. (#12155)
• Fingerprinting 2.0: User Agent - follow up to 9190. (#12097)
• unable to tip from panel when disabling content-level tips. (#12090)
• Improve dApp detection so that it's not triggered on web.archive.org (waybackmachine). (#11865)
• [Desktop] bubbles do not show properly on initial display. (#11838)
• GH inline Tip button is broken on few GH pages. (#11766)
• Support CNAME adblocking. (#11712)
• Filter out _openstat query string tracker out of URLs. (#11579)
• [Desktop] Use Greaselion for Reddit publishers. (#11464)
• [Desktop] Use Greaselion for Github publishers. (#11463)
• [Desktop] Use Greaselion for Twitter publishers. (#11462)
• [Desktop] Implement design for tipping banner. (#11393)
• Confirm NTP ad events. (#10488)
• [Desktop] Github Inline Tipping Broken. (#10434)
• [Desktop] Customized Dashboard settings tool tip is shown outside the modal popup. (#10299)
• Fingerprinting 2.0: WebGL2. (#9189)
• Make casing of settings titles / text consistent. (#8822)
• Twitter tipping success/share tweet: Twitter handle displays as a string of numbers in tweet. (#8265)
• twitter tip button doesn't show on selected tweet when viewing thread. (#6762)
• Re-enable download protection remote lookups. (#6267)
• Tipping a user's likes on Twitter results in incorrect username in tweet message. (#5685)
• Verified pubs image is not displayed. (#4557)
• Ctrl-tab to switch from most-to-least recently used tab. (#913)
• Handle .onions in all contexts. (#806)