Firefox 119 Available With Improved Firefox View, Expanded PDF Editing

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 23 October 2023 at 12:45 PM EDT. 40 Comments
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Ahead of the official planned announcement for Tuesday, the Mozilla Firefox 119.0 release binaries have been published for this monthly feature update.

Some of the highlights for new features/changes with Firefox 119 include:

- Firefox View includes more content such as being able to see all open tabs from all Firefox windows, browsing history is now listed, and more.

- Firefox can now import some Google Chrome extensions.

- Media sniffing is now disabled for top-level documents as type "application/octet-stream".

- Continued work on mitigating font fingerprinting of systems.

- Firefox now supports partitioning of Blob URLs as part of its total cookie protection.

- Support for editing of PDFs with adding images, alt text, etc, as part of better PDF editing support within the web browser.

- Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now available to Firefox users.

- The CSS attr() function now supports a fallback parameter.

Mozilla Firefox 119 on Linux


Those wishing to download Firefox 119 right now ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday can find the builds up on ftp.mozilla.org.
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