Mozilla has released the 89.0 update of its famous Firefox browser, which among other things renews the interface making it simpler and cleaner and makes the software faster.
These are the main features:
Interface
- Simplification of the toolbar: Rearranged and prioritized menu content based on usage. Updated labels and removed iconography.
- Updated requests: Infobars have a cleaner design and a clearer language.
- Improved and refined card design: Floating tabs neatly contain information and visual indicators for audio controls. The rounded active card design supports focus and signals the ability to easily move the card when needed.
- Reduced number of alerts and messages
- Images refined in appearance: Lighter iconography, a refined color palette and a more consistent style throughout the site.
Privacy
- Full Cookie Protection, which limits cookies to the site on which they were created, preventing companies from using cookies to track your browsing on the various sites. This feature was originally launched in Firefox's ETP Strict mode.
- For macOS users, introduction of the elastic overscroll effect known from many other applications, a soft bouncy animation will indicate that you have reached the end of the page.
viewing
- Zoom intelligent: Double-tapping with two fingers on the trackpad, or with a single finger on the mouse to focus on the content under your cursor.
- Native context menus: Context menus on macOS are now native and support Dark Mode.
Corrections
- Colors in Firefox on macOS will no longer be saturated on wide gamut displays, untagged images are treated correctly as sRGB, and colors in images tagged as sRGB now match CSS colors.
- In full screen mode on macOS, moving the mouse to the top of the screen will no longer be able to hide the tabs behind the system menu bar.
- Still in full screen mode on macOS, Browser toolbars can now be hidden for a fully immersive full screen experience. This brings macOS in line with Windows and Linux.
Various stability and security fixes.
Various changes
- Introduction of a non-native implementation of web form controls, which features a new modern design and some page load performance improvements. Beware of layout bugs in web pages that rely on the size or style of form controls.
- The screenshot function is available in the context menu of the right mouse button. You can also add a screenshot shortcut to your toolbar. To know more.
- Changes to Firefox Enterprise: Various bug fixes and new policies have been implemented in the latest version of Firefox. You can see more details in the Firefox for Enterprise 89 release notes.
- Developer- Improved keyboard navigation for editable BoxModel properties in the Inspector panel
- Web platform: Event timing API is now supported.
- Forced color CSS media query is now supported.
