Mozilla to release Firefox 112 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Here is this version’s release notes or changelog, check here before it’s available to you.
Firefox 112, what’s new:
- After Chrome, and Edge, Mozilla Firefox also provides the option to reveal the password when you right-click on the Password field.
- Firefox users running on Ubuntu Linux can now import browser data from Chromim Snap Package. As of now, this will only work if Firefox is not installed as a Snap Package. Mozilla is working to fix this also.
- You can now able to close tabs in the tab list by middle-clicking.
- You can able to use the (Cmd/Ctr)-Shift-T shortcut to restore the previous session if there are no closed tabs from the same session to re-open.
- Firefox further expands protection for users who chose Enhanced Strict Tracking Proteciton against cross-site tracking.
- This version enables the overlay of software-decoded video on Intel GPU on Windows. The change improves video down scaling quality and reduces GPU usage.
- Mozilla disables U2F JavaScript API by default. However, the U2F protocol is usable through WebAuthn API.The U2F API can be enabled by using security.webauth.u2f preference in about:config.
You can check full release notes including details related to Enterprise and Web Platform here.
Recently, we reported Firefox users on Mac were unable to drag and drop downloads to the desktop. The issue has been fixed and targeted for this release. However, Mozilla is not mentioned in the release notes, for some reason. After updating Firefox, let us know if you’re still affected by this issue.
Summary: Mozilla releases Firefox 112 with a reveal option for Password fields and allows Ubuntu Linux users to import browser data from the Chromium Snap package. So, you can switch from Chromium to Firefox on Ubuntu after that.
