If that doesn’t put you off you can download the latest Firefox beta as a binary from the releases page. A stable version will appear later this month. Keen to get up close and personal with these changes yourself? Hold your horses (gently) Firefox 105 is currently in beta. While neither of these are the kind of changes one can “screenshot” to show off, they are there and well-worth making some noise about.įinally, if you’re a user of the Firefox Snap, a few readers tell me that GNOME extension integration is working out-of-the-box in the Firefox 105 Beta Snap build on Ubuntu, meaning other messaging integrations e.g., password managers, may work (some folks say the feature works in the 104 Snap build, but it doesn’t for me). Mozilla add that browser performs better when system memory runs low. Mozilla Firefox 105 is now “less likely to run out of memory on Linux”, according to the beta release notes. PDF annotation features in Firefox 105b Other changes

In Firefox 105 beta, the same two-finger swipe on the touchpad moves you back/forward through your navigation history but a) you don’t need to press alt and b) you will see on-screen animations to indicate you’re navigating: In older version of Firefox you can navigate back/forward through your browsing history by pressing down the alt key while doing a two-finger swipe left/right on a touchpad. Yes, yes: you’re probably bored of hearing about this feature - I first wrote about it in June - but the feature is enabled out of the box in the early betas of 105, and on course to ship in Firefox 106 (frustrating though it is to wait, I can understand devs wanting to take time to get things right as this change is enabled by default). I’ll kick off - or rather flick off - with a Linux-specific change in the early Firefox 105 beta involving gestures, specifically touchpad navigation back/forward through web history under Wayland. Firefox 105 Beta: New Features Navigation Gestures on Wayland Intrigued by what I’ve been hearing, I downloaded the latest beta of the famous FOSS browser to find out first-hand what Mozilla’s got in store for us.Īnd spoiler: it’s set to be a real doozie. Mozilla Firefox 105 is shaping up to be an impressive update when the stable release lands in a couple of weeks time.

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