This release updates the Caret Browsing mode to also work in the PDF viewer and adds support for the Screen Wake Lock API.
I heard they are working on native tab groups at least, that could be cool.
That’s all I am waiting for. Edge and Chrome have really good ones and I really want it for FF.
The only thing excites me about Firefox.
What does this feature do?
There are some really annoying long standing open bugs in the Android version that I wish they’d work on
The main one I’m aware of is periodic crashing, but that could be my phone being a potato.
Which bugs bother you the most? If you have links, I could go upvote them to hopefully get some more attention.
I’ve got a weird intermittent issue that sometimes when I change tabs by swiping the address bar, the tab I swipe to will end up being an identical looking page to the tab that I just swiped from. Refreshing the page doesn’t fix the issue despite the URL being that of a different page, so to resolve I have to copy the URL, close the bugged tab, and the open a new one to the copied URL.
This also happens to me a lot with tabs that have video when using the mini player and then trying to come back to the page. For me it also works to close the bugged tab and then use the “undo” right away to restore it
Haven’t tried the undo trick before, thanks for the tip 👍
I think I’ve had that too, but it was resolved by going to the tab switcher and swapping between tabs that way.
And there’s an intermittent one where a tag gets stuck and I need to close and reopen the tab to navigate to a new page.
I wonder if you got hit with both at the same time…
I’ll try to dig them up and share back here but the annoying ones are:
- Randomly get stuck half way between light and dark mode
- Randomly will refuse to load a page, switching tabs shows the same page that is stuck. Only force closing fixes.
I think I’ve had the second, but it’s fairly rare.
I’m going to review this post later and see if I can summarize problems and link them to Bugzilla bugs. Hopefully some high quality bug reports can get it fixed sooner.
The most annoying thing for me is that Firefox is reloading the current tab if I switch apps and then back to Firefox. Why is this not saved somehow and needs to reload the whole page?
That sounds like an issue with your Android ROM, it might be killing apps as soon as you switch to another one. I don’t have this issue.
Interesting. I’ve never had it crash, be it on my Motorola or my Samsung. I don’t think they’re potatoes as they’re terrible for fries, so maybe that’s it.
Ah, maybe it was the peanut oil that caused the crashes. :)
It has gotten better, but I still get a crash almost once/week. Then again, I keep 5-6 tabs on it almost always and it’s my default browser for everything, so I’m pushing it kind of hard.
I get this really annoying one with private tabs that have been open a while that freeze and nothing can be done except closing the tab. Great browser otherwise.
Article…
Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
This release updates the Caret Browsing mode to also work in the PDF viewer and adds support for the Screen Wake Lock API.
by Marius Nestor March 18, 2024
The Mozilla Firefox 124 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available for download ahead of its official unveiling on March 19th, 2024, so it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements.
Mozilla Firefox 124 looks like a small update that only updates the Caret Browsing mode to also work in the PDF viewer and adds support for the Screen Wake Lock API to prevent devices from dimming or locking the screen when an application needs to keep running.
This release also adds support for using HTTP(S) and relative URLs when creating WebSockets, as well as support for the AbortSignal: any() static method, which takes an iterable of abort signals and returns an AbortSignal (more details are available here).
For Android users, Firefox 124 enables the Pull to Refresh feature, which is now more robust than ever, by default and adds support for the HTML drag and drop API when using a mouse, which accepts plain text or HTML text by the drop operation from external apps.
For macOS users, this release uses the fullscreen API for all types of full-screen windows, promising a better match to the expected macOS user experience for full-screen spaces, the Menubar, and the Dock. If you want to disable this feature, you’ll need to set the full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen preference to false in about:config.
During public beta testing, Firefox 124 also offered the long-awaited Cookie Banner Blocker feature that instructs Firefox to automatically refuse cookie banners for you and the Quick Actions feature that lets you quickly perform various actions from the address bar. However, these features were available up until the sixth beta version and they aren’t present in the final release.
As mentioned before, Mozilla will officially announce the Firefox 124 release tomorrow, March 19th, 2024. Until then, you can download the official DEB package for Ubuntu/Debian distros or tarball binary from Mozilla’s download server.
Pull to Refresh (by default) is nice
That website is completely borked. On Firefox, of all things.Temporary glitch? Working now.Works fine for me on Firefox on macOS.
Weird! That’s what I’m on too and I’m getting a giant menu through the middle of the article. 🤔
EDIT: And now it works again. Must have been a temporary glitch, although I force-reloaded it a couple of times even…
Sounds like a CSS issue, maybe a CDN was having a temporary issue.
i can’t wait. since last week I’ve been having the strangest issues and I already tried everything I can think of. last hope is an update will fix it.
Have you tried a new profile? It’ll clear your extensions and whatnot, but that has fixed a few issues I’ve had. Or if it’s on Android, clear the user data.
I will always upvote Firefox 😎😎😎
why did browsers start using the higher version numbers l? i miss when browser major versions were big deals
Maybe to highlight that all versions are importamt to update because they always come with security fixes.
Or maybe bigger big number more good
