Scheduled for today and available from yesterday at the Mozilla serverThe company has made official the launch of Firefox 95. Among its novelties there is a change that improves one of the points that I like the most about the browser: its Picture-in-Picture. It may seem silly, but it works best on all kinds of services, including Pluto TV, among others. It will not be a great improvement, but its behavior can be modified.
Until the earlier version, PiP button it appeared to the right of the video whenever there was one that could be "peeled" from the window. As of Firefox 95 we can decide if this button appears on the right or left from a new menu that will appear when we click on a compatible video. The rest of the news is not very exciting, and you have the official list below.
Highlights of Firefox 95
- A version is available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and Windows 11.
- RLBox, a new technology that makes Firefox stronger against potential security flaws in third-party libraries, is activated on all platforms.
- MacOS CPU usage has been reduced in Firefox and WindowServer during event processing.
- The power consumption of video decoding software in macOS has been reduced, especially in full screen. This will make it work better on services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
- The Picture-in-Picture button can be moved to the left.
- Site Isolation has been activated for all users in order to better protect ourselves against attacks such as those that could be done with Specter.
- After starting Firefox, users of the JAWS screen reader and ZoomText magnifier will no longer have to switch applications to access Firefox.
- The status of controls that use the ARIA switch feature is now correctly reported by Mac OS VoiceOver.
- Starting the content process is faster on macOS.
- Memory allocator improvements.
- Improved page loading performance by compiling speculative JavaScript ahead of time.
Firefox 95 It is now available to download from official website of the project. From the previous link, Linux users will be able to download the binaries, and the new version will soon begin to arrive in the official repositories of most Linux distributions.