With the Firefox 124 release out the door, Mozilla promoted today the upcoming Firefox 125 release to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a first look at the new features and improvements.
Probably the coolest new change of the upcoming Firefox 125 release is the URL Paste Suggestion feature, which provides a convenient way for users to quickly access URLs that are copied to the system clipboard.
“When the clipboard contains a URL and the URL bar is focused, an autocomplete result appears automatically. Activating the clipboard suggestion will navigate the user to the URL with 1 click,” explains Mozilla in the release notes.
Here’s the new URL Paste Suggestion feature in action!
Firefox 125 also promises support for highlighting in PDF documents (will be released gradually), a new option that lets users enable Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) while configuring Firefox to use the system proxy, and expanded download protection to proactively block downloads from URLs that may not be trustworthy.
For users of tab-specific Container add-ons, Firefox 125 promises to allow them to search in the address bar for tabs that are open in different containers. For users in the US and Canada, the upcoming Firefox release promises to prompt them to save their addresses when submitting an address form so they can more easily complete forms in the future.
Firefox 125 will potentially improve keyboard navigation for the settings by making it possible to reach the first option in a group of radio buttons where no option is selected with the Tab key, and navigate between options with the arrow keys when an option is selected.
Additionally, for Android users, Firefox 125 will remove the variant and extension of BCP47 from the Accept-Language header of HTTP requests. This is meant to improve compatibility with other web browsers.
For web developers, Firefox 125 plans to activate WebAssembly multi-memory by default, which will improve the interaction between wasm modules and enhance polyfills for upcoming wasm standards like the component model. There’s also support planned for Unicode text segmentation to JavaScript and for the content-box and stroke-box keywords of the transform-box CSS property.
Furthermore, the align-content property has been revamped to function in a block layout, facilitating block direction alignment without the need for a flex or grid container. The SVGAElement.text method has been supplanted by the more commonly used SVGAElement.textContent method, and the popover global attribute has seen improvements.
Notably, the eagerly anticipated Cookie Banner Blocker and Quick Actions in Address Bar features have made a reappearance in the Firefox 125 beta. However, their presence in the final release remains unknown. Let’s hope for the best!
Mozilla has set the release date for Firefox 125 as April 16th, 2024. In the meantime, you are welcome to download and try the newest Firefox 125 beta build. This can be achieved by downloading the tarball binary from the official website or the official DEB package for Ubuntu or Debian systems from the Mozilla’s download server.
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