Mozilla will make official in a few moments the launch of Firefox 133. It can already be downloaded from its server, but it is undoubtedly better to wait until midday on February 26 to download its binaries or a little longer until our Linux distribution adds the packages to its official repositories. But the fact is that it can already be downloaded, and we also know the new features included in the new version.
If anyone is waiting for a spectacular new feature, bad news; Firefox 133 is a version that doesn't even include a long list of new features. change list. Although, to be honest, it may not sound like much to people like me, who are used to receiving very striking improvements such as the New Vivaldi 7.0 DashboardIn any case, we already have a new version of the Red Panda browser and it includes these changes.
What's new in Firefox 133
Firefox debuts a new anti-tracking feature, named Bounce Tracking ProtectionThis protection measure detects bounce trackers based on your redirect behavior and periodically purges your cookies and site data to block tracking. Moreover, the sidebar for viewing tabs from other devices can now be opened via the Tab Overview menu.
On the imaging side, GPU-accelerated Canvas2D is now enabled by default on Windows, which improves performance, and support for image decoding has been added as part of the WebCodecs API. This allows image decoding from both the main and worker threads.
For developers, Firefox 133 now supports the option keepalive in the Fetch API, allowing developers to make HTTP requests that can continue to execute even after the page is unloaded, such as during navigation or page closing, supports the Permissions API in the context Worker and now sends "beforetoggle" events just before a dialog opens and "toggle" events after the dialog closes, matching the behavior of popovers.
On the server side, the value of the "expires" attribute is now adjusted by adding the difference between the server time and the local time when the current time is available. If the current time is set in the future, cookies that have not expired according to the server time will be considered valid. The list of new features is completed by improvements to the Picture-in-Picture feature that automatically opens when changing tabs, and methods are now available on UInt8Array to convert to and from Base64 and hexadecimal encodings.
Now available for download
Although the launch is not officialFirefox 133 is now available for download in binary form at this linkThey will soon update their snap package, flatpak, the packages in the official repository and later it will start to reach the repositories of the different Linux distributions.