Firefox 118

This is the version with local translation of web pages. It looks like they translate between Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.<p>I tried a French language page, and the translation to English seemed excellent. It was fun to watch the text change on the page as it was translated.

&gt; The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts to mitigate font fingerprinting in Private Browsing windows.<p>Nice, I wonder if this will effect results here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amiunique.org&#x2F;fingerprint" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amiunique.org&#x2F;fingerprint</a><p>Update: Still unique and the results show 215 Fonts which are 0.0% unique so I&#x27;m not sure this is working for me.

I think a huge chunk of web developers might be forced to switch to Firefox soon: Stripe’s API docs have become so big (and their asynchronous loading logic is so terrible) that Chrome regularly crashes for me jumping into section links in their api docs which made me curious to try it under Firefox. Happy report that slow DOM content loaded times aside, Firefox works great there!

Just discovered this by chance today in my FF&#x2F;Linux, I&#x27;m still on 117<p>&gt; Video Effects and background blur are now available to Firefox users on Google Meet! (Note: These effects have also been released retroactively to support Firefox versions back to Firefox 115.)<p>Now, does everyone know where the issue actually was? Giving that all of a sudden is retro-compatible, I would say at least a good chunk of the issue was on Google side

&quot;Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine.&quot;<p>Wait how is it even possible without having to download gigabytes of datas ?

I wonder what the deal with Google Meet was. Did Firefox fix this? Did Google team fix this? If this is retroactively fixed for the last 3 versions it must be a google-side fix right?

&gt; Video Effects and background blur are now available to Firefox users on Google Meet<p>Finally! That was fairly frustrating.

Don&#x27;t mean to take it off-topic, but I&#x27;d love to see JPEG XL (.jxl) image format support (that&#x27;s now part of Safari).

Whomever at FF came with the text on that page deserves a raise:<p>hello :teapot: -&gt; bonjour :baguette:<p>HN unfortunately removes the emojis.

Obligatory &quot;use Firefox&quot; comment:<p>Not related to the release notes, but I&#x27;ve recently discovered Chrome is unusable for my use case.<p>I have two M-processor based MacBooks in the house - one runs mullvad (WireGuard), and the other a company OpenVPN.<p>For some reason, both have major issues with Chromium-based software. I get ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED every couple of minutes and nothing can load. It kills XHR requests as well, so most web software becomes totally unusable. This also applies to Electron-based software like Discord and Bitwarden. Oddly, Slack seems unaffected so far but maybe it hides it &#x2F; retries better.<p>I don&#x27;t know what its problem is, but the issue does not affect WebKit or Gecko or any other software on the machine requiring networking. So I&#x27;ve dumped Chrome everywhere. I&#x27;ve spoken with several others that are affected by this but I have not found any bug reports mentioning this so I gave up.<p>I&#x27;ve been on Firefox for ages for personal use, but I can&#x27;t even use Chrome at work anymore. I&#x27;m not sure how they expect people to use this browser in Enterprise with such a glaring issue.

Does anyone understand the Opaque Response Blocking feature? I&#x27;m not grokking the explainer for it. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;annevk&#x2F;orb">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;annevk&#x2F;orb</a>

Does this work with archive.today? I&#x27;ve been having issues with using Firefox with it recently. Fails a captcha for some reason

The release notes for developers are more interesting (to me, at least) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Firefox&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;118" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Firefox&#x2F;Rel...</a>

The local translation feature would finally be a good new Firefox feature again. A pity though the number of supported languages is so small and does not include at least Chinese still.

Just noticed that Google Meet video effects are finally working in FF. That&#x27;s one less thing I need Chrome for.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;google-meet-firefox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;google-meet-fir...</a>

Did they ever add actual vertical tab support? When they migrated to webextensions TreeStyleTabs was pretty hamstrung because it couldn&#x27;t replace the actual tab UI anymore.

hopefully, Japanese&#x2F;Korean&#x2F;Chinese support soon

&gt; Firefox 118<p>I just upgraded my ESR. Now the dark mode is the default. Worse, the light mode would not work.<p>Sigh... is there any quality manager left at Mozilla ?<p>People, please, don&#x27;t change the UI without a very good reason. You look like idiots wanting fame.

The translation is very nice. Hopefully they add more languages soon! Been waiting on a feature like this for some time. There are addons but they&#x27;ve been finicky for me.

Can anyone say how FDLIBM improves protection against fingerprinting? They sort of gloss over this completely but I bet it has a very interesting explanation.

Still crashing like crazy on my system. It started in 114 or 115. I&#x27;ve sent at least 50 crash reports, with detailed descriptions of what I had been doing in the first few. Not sure what else to do. After using Firefox exclusively since around 2006, I had to switch to another browser (which I am surprisingly happy with), because getting 10-20 crashes per day really interferes with the work.<p>I&#x27;ve heard Linux support was down to like one guy who is doing half of the work in his free time out of goodness of his heart. Even if it&#x27;s not true, sure feels like it.

Automatic translation is huge for those of us living abroad! It&#x27;s the only thing that keeps me going to Chrome from time to time.

Still no :has() support? Getting ridiculously late now. It’s a major development in the web platform.

Firefox still a thing? Wow

The Firefox bug tracker is full of thousands of bugs with some sitting there for 10-15 years. I’d like to see way more focus on cleaning these up than new features and UI changes.