Firefox 99 arrives with the possibility of narrating in reading view, and another novelty for GTK that can be activated

It is common to hear someone say "if everything is made up", and they are almost right. It doesn't have it all because new things are always appearing, and there are also those "unicorns" that make something stand out overnight and make someone's pocket fat a little. In the browsers we are a bit in the first place, and lately they have been adding very few new features that are obvious, such as the Firefox v98 and other recent versions. This afternoon, Mozilla launched Firefox 99, and it's not a very exciting version either.

Reading over its list of new features, perhaps it highlights that narration can now be activated in reading mode if we press the key  N. Among the rest of the changes I would highlight one that is not official, and that I read in OMG: Ubuntu!: there is a GTK layer which can be activated from about:config and putting widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled en true. It's not enabled by default, and that's for a reason. Mozilla is preparing the ground, but it is possible that it still does not work as expected.

Highlights of Firefox 99

• You can now toggle Narrate in ReaderMode with the keyboard shortcut 'n'.
• Support has been added for searching -with or without diacritics- in the PDF viewer.
• The Linux sandbox has been hardened: processes exposed to web content no longer have access to the X Window System (X11).
• Firefox now supports credit card autofill and capture in Germany and France.
• Various bug fixes. Also 12 bugs have been fixed by the community.

It also highlights that they have added a "Not resolved" section, where the video does not always work in gallery mode.

Firefox 99 has been officially released this half day in Spain, you can now download from your official website and it is available in the official repositories of some Linux distributions. If the package has not yet appeared in your software center, it will in the next few hours.