{"id":1016,"date":"2024-08-06T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T11:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/whats-new-in-firefox-129-tab-wallpapers-and-enhanced-reader-view\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:10:44","slug":"whats-new-in-firefox-129-tab-wallpapers-and-enhanced-reader-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/whats-new-in-firefox-129-tab-wallpapers-and-enhanced-reader-view\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Firefox 129: Tab Wallpapers and Enhanced Reader View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Mozilla Firefox 129 is now available for download, and it comes with a couple of features that customization fans are sure to enjoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It\u2019s been 4 weeks since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/07\/mozilla-firefox-128-released-this-is-mostly-whats-new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 128<\/a> introduced a unified cookie, cache, and data clearing experience, the ability to translate portions of text on a web page, and a new privacy-respecting \u2018alternative to user tracking\u2019 API.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does Firefox 129 improve on all of that?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Of course it does \u2014 for more details, scroll on!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;`html<\/p>\n<p><h2>Mozilla Firefox 129: What\u2019s Changed?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I&#8217;ll kick off with the most eye-catching new feature in Firefox 129: new tab wallpapers!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2024\/04\/firefox-new-tab-background-images\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previewed this feature back in April<\/a>, and showcased it again last month. For fans of customisation, this is a nice addition and brings Firefox inline with similar features offered in rival browsers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;`<\/p>\n<p><p>That early implementation offered just a handful of backgrounds to pick from, but the first public release rolling out with Firefox 129 offers a wider set of curated wallpapers, split across 3 categories:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Solid Colours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Photos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>The selection is nice enough (I\u2019m drawn to the solid colours personally): <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/wallpaper-options-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Current selection of new tab backgrounds in Firefox 129<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There\u2019s no option to add a custom background of your own choosing at the moment, and no sign in nightly\/developer builds that such an option is on the way soon \u2014 still, this lets you add a dash of personality to your new tab page. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other personalization and info features are on the way (like a weather widget), making Firefox\u2019s new tab page increasingly a place users want to look at, transforming it into a dashboard-come-springboard for web exploration. Something other than a plain white background helps. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3>Revamped Reader View<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Reader View options in Firefox 129 and Firefox 128<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Avid users of Firefox\u2019s built-in <em>Reader View<\/em> (which strips a web page of all unnecessary clutter so you can focus on the core content, i.e., text and images) will find <strong>revamped <em>Reader View<\/em> settings<\/strong> UI, new options, and a separate theme panel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The browser already offered a decent set of character and layout options, but the interface to tweak them was a little awkward\/unconventional, UI-wise.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Firefox 129 overhauls the UI, giving you a better overview of what each option does, introduces sliders with pips and labels, adds a monospace font style, font weight options, separate character and word spacing settings, and more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Reader View<\/em> themes get their own dedicated section, with new <em>Contrast<\/em> and <em>Grey<\/em> options. If you want to roll your own style, you can; set your own text, background, and link colors for Firefox Reader View from the new <em>Theme &gt; Custom<\/em> tab.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Beyond that, Firefox 129 makes HTTPS the default protocol in the address bar on non-local sites (something I already thought it did, if I\u2019m honest). The browser will fall back to HTTP if an address can\u2019t be loaded over HTTPS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A few cherry-picked Linux-specific changes:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PipeWire camera support for ARGB\/ABGR formats<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wacom Intuos 3 6\u00d78 now correctly detected as pen, not mouse<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ability to use mouse and stylus pen input devices simultaneously<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix for GPU issue causing crash when viewing Google Maps on Arch Linux<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Firefox Flatpak now opens directories using XDG Portals by default<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>For more details on the makeup of this release hit up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/129.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official release notes<\/a>, and for developer-specific changes check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Firefox\/Releases\/129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">developer release notes for Firefox 129<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In all, another welcome update to the world\u2019s most-loved open-source web browser (someone hand Chromium a tissue, I\u2019m out\u2026). <\/p>\n<h2>Getting Mozilla Firefox 129<\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox is free, open-source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux (with mobile versions available on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/firefox-private-safe-browser\/id989804926\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This update will roll out to Ubuntu users (of the snap) in the next day or so, automatically, in the background \u2013 so keep an eye out for that. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If you\u2019re using the Mozilla Team PPA, the official Mozilla APT repo, or the official Firefox Flatpak from Flathub, you\u2019ll get this update shortly too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can, as always, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">download Firefox from the Mozilla website<\/a>, if you don\u2019t already have it. 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