In about two hours, Mozilla will update the news page de Firefox 131 officially announcing its availability. When it does, it won't show a long list of changes, but it will include some of the ones we've talked about recently, such as partial support for text fragments. Starting today, when you send us a link that includes #:~:text= followed by a snippet, the Red Panda browser will take us directly to that text and highlight it.
As we will explain in another article that we will publish soon, it is not a complete support like what Chrome and Vivaldi offer, which also create them. Without meaning to make spoiler, the reason may be related to privacy: by sending a link with a selected text, if someone captures it, they can learn things about the person who sent it. Whether or not this is true, this was also discussed by the Brave developers, who decided to completely eliminate the option to share these types of links.
Other new features in Firefox 131
Among the other new features, it also stands out that a tabs preview When you hover over a tab, you will see a sort of card with a screenshot of what it shows when you hover over it. This will save you time and prevent you from having to click on it.
As for what each page can access, Firefox 131 onwards will offer the option to remember the permissions that we grant to websites, such as the use of the microphone or geolocation. These temporary permissions will be removed after an hour or when you close the tab. The translation tool continues to improve, and the browser will now take into account the languages we have previously used when suggesting translations. The list of available languages continues to grow and now also supports Swedish.
Firefox 131 has added support for cookies with independent partitioned state (CHIPS), allowing developers to opt for top-level site-partitioned cookie storage. Something that's been gone and is back: the ability to navigate to the search engine homepage when it's empty with shift-enter/shift-click.
Among the other new features, the Tab Overview menu (List all tabs) has received a new and updated cookie icon. SameSite=None will now be rejected when the attribute is not included Secure and have been officially removed SVGGraphicsElement.nearestViewportElement y SVGGraphicsElement.farthestViewportElementThe list of changes would be completed by bug fixes.
Firefox 131 available from the Mozilla server, and this afternoon it will also appear on its official website.