Mozilla Firefox 130 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Highlights of Mozilla Firefox 130 include the ability to translate selected text portions to different languages after a full-page translation, overscroll animations enabled as the default behavior for scrollable areas on Linux, and a new Firefox Lab page in Settings to make it easier to try experimental features in Firefox.
Firefox Labs currently lets you enable an AI chatbot, an auto-open on tab switch feature for Picture-in-Picture, support for Service Workers in the Debugger panel, and an address bar feature that shows results during IME (Input Method Editor) composition.
Linuxiac:
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Firefox 130 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Almost a month after the previous 129 release, Mozilla released a new version of its widely used open-source browser, Firefox v130, now available for download.
A very handy new feature is the ability to translate selected text portions in addition to full-page translations. This will particularly benefit users who frequently need to translate text snippets without a complete page translation, enhancing the browsing experience in multilingual environments.
Moreover, Mozilla has introduced overscroll animations as the default behavior for scrollable areas on Linux systems, thus contributing to a smoother and more visually appealing user experience when navigating long web pages or documents.
OMG Ubuntu:
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Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API - OMG! Ubuntu
On Linux, Firefox 130 enables overscroll animations by default, having added them on other platforms a few years back. This is a familiar visual effect from mobile systems: when you try to scroll beyond the edge content an elastic animation indicates “nu-uh”.
To save anyone being confused, the new (on Linux) Firefox over-scroll animations only play if you’re using a touchpad/trackpad to overscroll. You won’t see the effect if using a mouse. To help you get an idea, here’s a GIF...
LWN:
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Firefox 130.0 released
Version 130.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Notable in this release is the addition of a Firefox Labs tab in Firefox Settings. This allows users to easily enable experimental features, such as the ability to translate selected text portions to different languages after a full-page translation, and add an Hey Hi (AI) chatbot to the sidebar. Firefox 130 also addresses several security issues, adds 11 new languages to its translation support, and more.
Surveillance:
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Firefox 130 brings a few AI features, including integrated chatbots
Yesterday, Mozilla released Firefox 130 for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, fixing a number of important security vulnerabilities while also improving several features and introducing a new setting that makes it a lot easier to play around with experimental features — like a brand-new integration with third-party AI chatbots.