Like every four weeks, Mozilla has just released a new update to its web browser. The earlier version It arrived with few striking news, and it seems that that is something that they have wanted to repair this time: Firefox 88 activates, or rather fixes, the possibility of enjoying the Alplenglow Dark theme, since until now the theme could be used, but not its dark version that shows purple tones.
Another novelty that jumps out is that Firefox 88 allows us to use the gesture pinch-to-zoom to increase or decrease the size of the view separating or joining two fingers, as we do on a touch screen. This, which was already available in Windows for some versions, will also be possible in Linux, as long as we do it in a Wayland session. Below you have the list of news that have arrived with Firefox 88.
Highlights of Firefox 88
- PDF forms now support embedded JavaScript in PDF files.
- Print updates: Margin units are now localized.
- Now you can smoothly zoom with a touchpad in Linux.
- To protect against cross-site privacy leaks, Firefox now isolates the window.name data to the website that created it.
- Screen readers no longer misread content that websites have visually hidden, as in the case of articles in the Google help panel.
- Firefox will not request access to your microphone or camera if you have already granted access to the same device on the same site and on the same tab in the last 50 seconds.
- The "Take a screenshot" function has been removed from the Page Actions menu in the address bar. To take a screenshot, you now have to click the right mouse button to open the context menu. A shortcut to screenshots can also be added directly to the toolbar through the Customize menu.
- FTP support has been disabled, and its complete removal is planned for a future release. Addressing this security risk reduces the likelihood of an attack, while eliminating support for an unencrypted protocol.
- Bug fixes and security improvements.
- It doesn't mention it on the official list, but they have also enabled WebRender in KDE and XFCE.
Available one day earlier than expected
Firefox 88 It is now available for all supported systems, so it can already be downloaded, in fact one day earlier than expected, from the official website. In the next hours / days it will also reach the official repositories of most Linux distributions. The next version will already be a Firefox 89 that, if they do not back down, will come with a renewed design that they have dubbed Proton.
How much nonsense, that's why he will always be second. What if they focused solely and exclusively on speed, both initial startup and navigation? And when you manage to be equal to or faster than your main competitor Chrome, then you worry about nonsense of this kind. Mozilla will never raise their heads, because they have never known how to manage what they have in their hands.