This month’s Firefox 126 release brought with it a modest set of improvements for Linux users — as well as an annoying bug which temporarily breaks drag and drop actions in the browser.
And that bug was easy to trigger: select some text or an image on a web page, then ‘drag’ it out but release (something I inadvertently do when browsing web pages quite often). Then, next time to you try to drag something out of a web page it no longer works.
Restarting the browser (or perform a convoluted workaround involving external apps) would thaw the flaw, but not ideal.
Anyway, the goods news is that this bug is fixed in Firefox 126.0.1, released today and likely to roll out via the Snap Store, Mozilla APT repo, and other Linux-friendly packaging outlets very soon.
Firefox 126.0.1 also fixes:
- Issue reading tagged PDF documents with screen readers (Windows, Linux)
- Not using localized text for non-US locales in Crash Reporter (macOS)
- High GPU memory usage on certain AMD graphics cards (Windows)
I don’t usually cover Firefox point releases (they never add new features only fix bugs) but given that this bug confused me earlier this week I figured others may have noticed it and want to know a) was a bug not their setup and b) it’s now fixed.
On the topic of Firefox, Mozilla recently shared an updated roadmap revealing new features its engineers and developers are currently working on. Several “hot ticket” items are planned, including vertical tabs, revamped profile management system, and tab grouping.
And no doubt a fair number of bug fixes too!