Mozilla Firefox 126 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on May 13, 2024,
updated May 16, 2024

Highlights of Firefox 126 include adding “Linux” to Firefox for Android’s User-Agent string in an attempt to fix some website compatibility issues, renaming Firefox for Android’s “add-ons” settings to “Extensions” for consistency with Firefox for desktop and addons.mozilla.org, and enabling AV1 hardware decode acceleration on macOS for M3 Macs.

For web developers, Firefox 126 introduces an option to disable or enable the Developer Tools’ Split console feature, support for CSS Custom :state() and CustomStateSet, and support for IDBFactory.databases for enumeration of IndexedDB databases.

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Linuxiac:

• Firefox 126 Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

  Mozilla has released Firefox 126, introducing updates that enhance functionality and streamline user interactions. The new version also brings key performance enhancements that benefit macOS users. Here’s what it’s all about.

  In its latest iteration, Mozilla’s browser has introduced a simpler, more unified dialog for clearing user data. This dialog streamlines the categories of data that can be cleared and offers insights into the size of the site data accumulated over selected time ranges.

  Moreover, Firefox 126 has enabled AV1 hardware decode acceleration exclusively for M3 Macs, thus boosting media playback efficiency and battery life as well.

OMG Ubuntu:

• Mozilla Firefox 126 is Now Available to Download - OMG! Ubuntu

  As Firefox updates go the 126 release is rather light on user-facing goodies, especially versus last month’s release which intro’d clipboard paste suggestions in the address bar, colourful highlighting tools to the PDF editor, and activity indicators in Firefox View.

  The only real user-facing change in Firefox 126 is a toggle to turn-off the vertical split pane feature in the the web inspector. While a tap of the esc key can show/hide split-pane at will some folks don’t want it triggered when they use that, hence the new toggle.

The Mozilla Blog:

• See what’s changing in Firefox: Better insights, same privacy

  To improve Firefox based on your needs, understanding how users interact with essential functions like search is key. We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. To make sure that features like this work well, we need better insights on overall search activity – all without trading off on our commitment to user privacy. Our goal is to understand what types of searches are happening so that we can prioritize the correct features by use case.

  With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses.

LWN:

• Firefox 126.0 released

  Version 126.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Changes include improvements to the "copy link without site tracking" feature, support for zstd compression, and a new tracking "feature": ""Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development.""