After a forced break for the Christmas holidays and a month and a half after the previous version, Mozilla has just made official the launch of Firefox 134As always, the download has been available for at least 24 hours, but it was on Tuesday when they activated the downloads on their official website and published the What's new in this releaseThese two details make official the arrival of a new version of the red panda's browser; a release note is not necessary, as it is never published as such.
As for new features, this is another iteration without any major changes, but since there are some that do feature “Linux,” many of the readers of this blog will probably be more excited than usual. For example, starting with the recently released Firefox 134, the browser supports touchpad gestures. Here’s the lowdown: full list of changes that have come along with this version.
What's new in Firefox 134
- Firefox now supports touchpad hold gestures on Linux. This means that you can now interrupt kinetic (impulse) scrolling by placing two fingers on the touchpad.
- Hardware accelerated playback of HEVC video content is now supported on Windows.
- Ecosia availability has been expanded to all languages in the German region, plus Austria, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
- Firefox now more closely follows the HTML specification model for transient user activation. This change makes pop-up blocking less strict in cases where previous versions of Firefox were too aggressive, reducing erroneous blocking prompts.
- Users in the US and Canada are seeing a new New Tab design, with a repositioned logo and weather widget to prioritize Web Search, Shortcuts, and Recommended Stories at the top. The update includes UI changes to cards for Recommended Stories and allows users with larger screens to view up to four columns, making better use of space.
- Improvements to web extension debugging, such as automatically reloading web extension source code into the debugger when the extension is reloaded.
- Debugger log point values are now automatically converted to profiler markers, making it easier to add information to the marker timeline directly from the debugger.
- The Network panel displays information about Early Hints, including a dedicated indicator for HTTP status code 103 in the user interface.
Now available
Firefox 134 can now be downloaded since official websiteThe arrival in the official repositories of the different Linux distributions will occur in the next few hours or a few days, depending on the philosophy of each one.