Like every four weeks, although it wasn't always like that, Mozilla just made official the release of a new version of your web browser. Behind the v103, today it was the turn of Firefox 104, an update that will be very welcome for those already settled in Wayland: activated by default, you can now navigate through the history with a two-finger gesture on the touchpad. The option was present since last month, but you no longer have to activate it manually. This novelty does not appear in the official list.
Mozilla has not stopped improving its PiP since it launched it back in v70 of the browser. Its latest improvement will allow us to see the Disney+ subtitles when the window is floating on the desktop. The company says that subtitles will work if used in video.js, a platform that is widespread and used by many companies with a relevant Internet presence. Next you have the official list of news that have arrived with Firefox 104.
What's new in Firefox 104
- Subtitles are now available for Disney+ when using PiP.
- Firefox now supports both scroll-snap-stop and re-snapping properties. You can use the "always" and "normal" values of the "scroll-snap-stop" property to specify whether or not to snap snap points, even when scrolling quickly. Re-snapping tries to keep the last snap position after any content/layout changes.
- Profiler can analyze the power consumption of a website, but only on Apple M1 and Windows 11.
- The browser UI will slow down when minimized or covered. This will increase autonomy.
- Highlight color is correctly preserved after typing Enter in Yahoo Mail and Outlook mail composer.
- After going through the https-only error page, navigating back would take you to the error page that was previously dismissed. Back now takes you to the previous site that was visited.
- The raw paste shortcut (shift+ctrl/cmd+v) now works in plain text contexts, such as the input and text area.
- Error correction.
Firefox 104 is available from the Mozilla server since yesterday, but its launch was not official until a few minutes ago. You can now download from your official website, and Linux distributions will add the new packages to their repositories in the next few hours.