The upcoming version might bring tab previews, cookie banner block, and vertical tabs
Firefox 130 is landing on users' machines, while version 131 enters beta — with a feature we've all been waiting for.is here, less than a month after its predecessor – which was chiefly notable because it got not one but twoFOSS desk's humble opinion. It's the new beta that's a bit more interesting, but we'll get to that.
The new current version has two notable features. Firefox is getting smarter about handling discrete blocks of text within a web page, and a visible aspect is that 130 supportsFirefox 131's new Settings page, in a vertical tab, alongside a picture-in-picture video. - Click to enlarge The thing is that the real human world is messy, and it's quite common to encounter a web page that's mostly in one language, but contains bits that are in another. If you don't speak either of those languages, that's a problem. So now, after Firefox 130 translates a web page from one language to your preferred one, you can now highlight a block of text and translate just that bit to or from something else.
It's good to see Mozilla making some slightly more significant changes to its flagship product. Firefox's market share is tiny these days, but then, so is that of Linux on the desktop – and yet, it's a very significant player all the same, especially via Chromebooks. Size, as they say, is no guarantee of strength. More power to the lizard's elbow.
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