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• Firefox now displays images and descriptions for search suggestions when provided by the search engine.

• The translations feature received an improvement in the quality of translated webpages. The results should be much more stable. This fixes issues where the content of a page could disappear when translated, or interactive widgets could break.

• Firefox now supports creating and using passkeys stored in the iCloud Keychain on macOS.

• MDN Web Docs article suggestions from Firefox Suggest will be available in the address bar for users searching for web development-related information.

• The line breaking rules of Web content now match the Unicode Standard. This improves Web Browser compatibility for line breaking. An additional improvement for East Asian and South East Asian end users, Firefox now supports proper language-aware word selection when double-clicking on text for languages including Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, and Thai.

• Firefox now ships with a new .deb package for Linux users on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint.

• Various security fixes.

For more information, visit https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/122.0/releasenotes/

Firefox for Android

• Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.

• Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.

• To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as "Android 10" in Firefox for Android's User-Agent string.

• Various security fixes.

For more information, visit https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/122.0/releasenotes/

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[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All these new features, I'm sure are great.

But when, oh when, will Mozilla start supporting tabbed browsing for tables and foldable devices.

It's the one thing stopping me from swtitching.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean a dedicated tab bar? If not, I'm using it on my Android tablet and foldable with no issues whatsoever.

[–] hellequin67@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes , the same way almost every other browser does. My tablet is my desktop replacement I don't want a bloated phone browser I would like a desktop experience.

[–] apemint@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same. On my tablet I use Brave because it has a tab bar, but I'd rather use FF.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Assuming you're talking about Android, there's been some early work done on this recently, I've noticed.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know no browser supports tables, I'd suggest doing a puzzle or eating dinner on your table instead.

[–] c10l@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Actually pretty much all browsers support tables, it’s been part of the HTML spec forever.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp