{"id":921,"date":"2024-07-10T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/mozilla-firefox-128-released-discover-the-latest-features-and-improvements\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:44:38","slug":"mozilla-firefox-128-released-discover-the-latest-features-and-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/mozilla-firefox-128-released-discover-the-latest-features-and-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 128 Released: Discover the Latest Features and Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mozilla Firefox 128 is now available for download, freshly stocked with a few sweet new features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a mere few weeks since Firefox 127<\/a> delivered a deft new way to get rid of duplicate tabs, bolstered security by auto-upgrading mixed-content elements in webpages, and souped-up its in-page screenshot capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In Firefox 128, Mozilla\u2019s developers add a faster and more intuitive way to leverage the browser\u2019s built-in (privacy-friendly) language translation feature, streamline browser spring cleaning, and resolve a couple of errant quibbles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

For more details, scroll on!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What\u2019s new in Firefox 128?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Cruft accumulates as we browse the web: web browsing and search history, media cache, site-specific permissions, and cookies (not all cookies are evil, some keep you signed into services or allow features like shopping carts to function).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Firefox 128 makes clearing user data easier by introducing a unified \u2018clear user data\u2019 dialog with a more streamlined set of options. Regardless of where you call it up (hamburger menu or settings) you now see the same dialog with the same options, labels, descriptions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Clear browser data selectively, and for a specific period (e.g., \u2018last hour\u2019, \u2018today\u2019, etc). The size of data you select to clean is now shown, giving you a good idea of how much disk space you\u2019ll free up by ditching the detritus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ever wish you could translate a snippet of text within a web page, rather than translate the whole page? Firefox 128 adds an option to translate text selection<\/strong> to the right-click context menu. I previewed this feature back in April<\/a>, so it may sound familiar.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in the US or Canada you\u2019ll now see \u2018trending searches\u2019 in the address bar whenever you go to make a new search. If you care about knowing what other people are searching for, you may find that useful. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Otherwise, expect to be suckered into clicking things based on \u201cer, why is that trending?\u201d<\/em> \u2014 which fuels the trend further. It\u2019s almost like bots have learned to gamify this to their own ends\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Firefox 128 adds support for the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API<\/a> which, Mozilla say, \u201cprovides an alternative to user tracking\u201d. Don\u2019t like the sound of it? It can be disabled from the Privacy and Security<\/em> settings panel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Firefox 128 proxies DNS by default when using SOCKS v5; renders more text\/*<\/code> file types inline, rather than prompting you to download them; and is able to play protected content from streaming sites like Netflix<\/em> while in Private Browsing mode.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Upcoming feature improvements<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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Changing location in Firefox\u2019s New Tab weather widget<\/figcaption><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Firefox\u2019s new tab weather widget<\/a> didn\u2019t make it into this release as a default feature, but the guide I shared a few weeks back showing you how to enable it continues to work. A new config variable has been added to enable location changes\/search.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can see how easy that is to use in the GIF above.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The other big customisation feature on the way is new tab wallpapers. Firefox 128 includes a \u2018v2\u2019 implementation of this to test. It offers a larger set of imagery to choose from, including solid colours, abstract backgrounds, and photographic imagery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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More choice for new tab wallpapers (for those who want \u2019em)<\/a><\/p>\n

More choice for new tab wallpapers (for those who want \u2019em)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One Ubuntu-specific bug fix of note resolves an issue where the tab hover previews would render black for a subset of tabs (once too many were open) rather than, as expected, show a preview of the web page.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cTab hover previews?!\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/em>\u2014 yeah, I don\u2019t think tab hover previews are enabled in Firefox by default (yet \u2014 at least in the en_GB locale), but there\u2019s a flag in about:config<\/code> should you want to try them out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They work as you\u2019d expect: mouse over an unfocused tab and it shows a thumbnail preview of the page as it currently looks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

How to Get Firefox 128<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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Disqus not loading in Firefox? Here\u2019s why <\/p>\n

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Firefox 128 is free, open-source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux (with mobile versions available on Android and iOS).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can download Firefox from the Mozilla website<\/a> if you don\u2019t already have it, and most existing users on macOS and Windows can upgrade to the latest release in-app. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Most Linux users will get this update as a software update from their Linux distribution\u2019s repo, the Mozilla APT repo<\/a>, or a 3rd-party mechanism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

For more details on the makeup of this release hit up the official release notes<\/a>, and for developer-specific changes check out the developer release notes for Firefox 128<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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