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Firefox 146 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
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Almost a month after releasing version 145, Mozilla has launched Firefox 146, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, now available for download.
The release brings notable platform updates. Linux users running Wayland now benefit from native fractional scaling support, improving visual clarity and rendering accuracy on high-DPI displays.
On macOS, Firefox enables a dedicated GPU process by default, isolating WebGPU, WebGL, and WebRender. This change prevents full-browser crashes from graphics faults, instead restarting the GPU process transparently to maintain session stability.
OMG Ubuntu:
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Firefox 146 Brings Full Fractional Scaling Support on Wayland - OMG! Ubuntu
Arguably, the ‘headline’ change for Linux users is that Firefox now fully supports fractional-scaling under Wayland, by default. No need to tinker with about:config flags, brave beta builds or (more likely) tut under your breath at oversized web elements.
The change, say Mozilla, makes “rendering more effective” (i.e., text, icons, menus and cursors appear non-blurry, position correctly and render at the right size).
Marius and the logo:
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9to5Linux ☛ Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland
Firefox 146 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
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Mozilla ☛ Meet the artist behind Firefox’s new community-created app icon
Last year, the Firefox team set out to test something fans requested: choosing a custom app icon. The experiment was simple. Offer a small set of options and see how people use them.
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Firefox is getting a long-awaited display upgrade on Linux PCs
Firefox 146 is rolling out, bringing a major, long-awaited display improvement for users running Linux with the Wayland compositor. The newest build now natively supports fractional scaling on Linux, which should make the rendering experience much better and snappier.
This is a huge deal because anyone who has tried to run a high-resolution display on Linux often struggles with scaling issues, especially when you need a 125% or 150% scaling factor rather than just doubling everything. Previously, you often needed workarounds, but having native support means the browser handles the rendering correctly right out of the box.
The dedicated GPU process is now enabled by default for macOS users, and this is a fantastic stability upgrade. This process handles things like WebGPU, WebGL, and Firefox’s own WebRender. The biggest benefit here is that if a fatal error occurs in the graphics code, it will no longer crash the entire browser session. Instead, the GPU process will transparently restart itself, letting you keep browsing without interruption.
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Firefox 147 Promises Support for the XDG Base Directory Specification, Beta Out Now
Firefox 147 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!
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Firefox 146 released
Version 146.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. One feature of particular interest to GNU/Linux users is that Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Wayland. Firefox Labs has also been made available to all users even if they opt out of telemetry or participating in studies. "
This means more experimental features are now available to more people.
"This release also adds support for Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) for WebRTC. ML-KEM is "
believed to be secure against attackers with large quantum computers
". See the release notes for all changes.
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Firefox 146.0 added Native Wayland Fractional Scaling Support
After a month of beta development, Firefox 146.0 is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS users. The new release of this web browser finally added native support for fractional scaling on GNU/Linux with Wayland session (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04+ and Fedora Workstation). Mozilla Firefox merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 support more than 2 years ago.