Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop

Firefox 130 web browser binaries were published today ahead of the official release announcement going out on Tuesday. Firefox 130 isn't too particularly exciting but there are a few changes worth mentioning.

Firefox 130 brings improvements to its local translation handling for text, overscroll animations are now enabled as the default behavior for scrollable areas on Linux, the Firefox Lab page within the settings now makes it easier to enable experimental features, better Android page load performance, and other small changes.

Firefox 130 also with its WebCryptoAPI now supports Curve25519 primitives. Another notable feature is the WebCodecs API being enabled on desktop platforms with Firefox 130. The WebCodecs API allows for low-level access to audio and video encoders / decoders.

The WebCodecs API is particularly useful for web-based apps like video/audio editors and video conferencing that may want control over individual frames of a video stream or audio chunks. For any web software interested in that low-level audio/video encode/decode handling there is now WebCodecs API working on the Firefox desktop builds.

More details on the developer changes of Firefox 130 can be found via developer.mozilla.org. Those wanting the Firefox 130.0 release binaries right now for Linux can download them at Mozilla.org.