Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features

[Gonk]

unfortunately AVIF makes a fairly poor webformat for high fidelity images, It lacks progressive decode, and is only really that good in comparison when you absolutely squash the quality or do animations since an AVIF "image" is just av1 video.

In my experience, this is true. Once you care about a certain level of quality, JPEG XL leaves AVIF in the dust. I think there is a need for and room out there for both of them, but right now AVIF seems to be sucking up more oxygen than it deserves.

[avis]

On a side note. AVIF is supported in all major browsers now. That's the common denominator now! Furthermore there is hardware decoding support on almost all devices released in 2023 and later.

That's false.

Only the most expensive smartphones based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/3, and iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max support HW AV1 decoding.

No other Qualcomm SoC supports it. Mediatek has some SoCs with the feature but I'm not following. Again, premium SoCs.

[avis]

Mozilla has broken font rendering in Firefox 123 but most people here won't be affected because barely anyone uses Microsoft TTF fonts. I do.

[andyprough]

Mozilla has broken font rendering in Firefox 123 but most people here won't be affected because barely anyone uses Microsoft TTF fonts. I do.

In your browser? What would be the point?

[Rovano]

And finally on Linux... Firefox one, two, three released....Web Codecs API!

https://pr32233.content.dev.mdn.mozit.cloud/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/123

https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/31913

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749047

[Quackdoc]

That's false.

Only the most expensive smartphones based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/3, and iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max support HW AV1 decoding.

No other Qualcomm SoC supports it. Mediatek has some SoCs with the feature but I'm not following. Again, premium SoCs.

exynos, mediakek, broadcom, and realteks new devices almost all support it iirc, even non premium socs. I believe av1 will be standard on new qualcomm devices too now

[Sonadow]

In your browser? What would be the point?

Cloud productivity suites.

[Sonadow]

Mozilla has broken font rendering in Firefox 123 but most people here won't be affected because barely anyone uses Microsoft TTF fonts. I do.

As do I.

Especially when cloud productivity suites like O365 and GDocs use them a lot as well.

Already built Firefox 123 yesterday, but have not started using it yet. Maybe I won't, if it's bad enough.

[yump]

Mozilla has broken font rendering in Firefox 123 but most people here won't be affected because barely anyone uses Microsoft TTF fonts. I do.

Are you using any of Firefox's antifingerprinting functionality?

Edit: See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336208

[avis]

Are you using any of Firefox's antifingerprinting functionality?

Edit: See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336208

A lot of antifingeprinting features have been enabled by default recently and I've not changed any defaults.

In about:config I have zero resistFingerprinting features not in their default state.