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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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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 year ago

One thing they did not mention in the Firefox Android change log is that you can now enter IPv6 addresses directly into the address bar whereas before it would do a search.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

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

oh, shit. this may be the one, final thing to get me to drop safari... unless i can find a way to get Airplay to work from FF...

[–] 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

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox launched PWA way too early, and abandoned it just before it gained some traction over Fediverse apps. I don’t like using an unofficial extension to enable PWA, yet not as much as have to use MS Edge for PWA.

Only thing I’m interested in these updates are Mozilla bringing PWA back.

[–] axo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But firefox still has PWA support, doesnt it? Atleast the fdroid Fennec build has it

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more complete on Firefox for Android than it is for desktop.

[–] axo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, yeah thats true. Firefox desktop does not seem to have a proper PWA implementation

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Hopefully next it will get the ability to send push notifications to use passkeys on other devices like in chromium browsers

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

Yeah

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ctrl-h still opens a useless sidebar, and ctrl-shift-h still opens a window like it's 2006.

Boo! Stop giving me new "fresh" UIs and fix actual out-of-date shit!

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Also yes, I AM incredibly salty about this.

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Standard PDF reader on Android is small but nice!

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't Firefox android 122 supposed to be when we got all the normal firefox add-ons?

[–] ThinkingThings@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox on Android has supported the normal add-ons since December. The list is at 678 extensions as I'm typing this.

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like I'm going crazy. I checked when I wrote that message and could only see the basic ones that have existed for ages.

3 dots -> add-ons -> find more add-ons

Before it only showed the basic ones, now it shows yeah over 600. Not sure what happened here

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I thought that was 121 point something, but couldn't say for certain.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I remember when Firefox 2 came out and it was a big deal

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have they abandoned the Snap package then? What's the deal with the new deb?

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Canonical is the one maintaining most notable snaps

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right ok. Must have got my wires crossed. I thought Mozilla stopped supporting anything but snaps on Ubuntu and hence dropped the debs.

My bad 😔.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I think Canonical just removed the Deb from their repos. Mozilla can build it but you need to install it from them, the one in the default Ubuntu package is just a redirect to the Snap

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That was it. Thanks for clearing that up.

[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Don't think the snap is an official Mozilla package.