A few days ago Mozilla announced that it is already at work and reviews of ideas to improve the tabbed browsing experience in Firefox that were submitted by the community at ideas.mozilla.org and received the most support from users.
The final decision that has been made public is about the implementation that will be made after Mozilla's product team reviews the ideas.
The ideas being considered include:
A vertical layout mode of the tab list, reminiscent of the tab list sidebar in MS Edge and Vivaldi, with the ability to disable the top tab bar.
Move horizontal tab line to sidebar will allocate additional screen real estate for viewing the content of sites, which is especially important on widescreen laptop screens due to the fad of placing fixed, non-scrolling headers on sites, greatly reducing the area with useful information.
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This idea has emerged as a top one in the community and has been reviewed by the Mozilla product team. And we'll continue to explore this possibility as we take a closer look at tab management. This means we'll invest in research before making that final decision, but we encourage you to continue the conversation and stay tuned for announcements.
Preview tabs on hover on a button in the tab bar. Whereupon when hovering over the tab button, the page title is displayed, i.e. without changing the active tab, it is impossible to distinguish between different pages with the same favicon images and titles.
And also tab grouping - the ability to combine several tabs into one group, presented on the panel with a button and highlighted with a label.
For users who are used to keeping a large number of tabs open, the grouping feature will greatly improve usability and allow content to be grouped by task and type. For example, often during the initial study of a topic, many related pages are opened, which after a while you will have to return to when writing an article, but you do not want to leave secondary pages in the form of separate tabs, since they take up space on your computer. the panel.
It is also worth mentioning that the availability of a corrective version was recently announced of Firefox 97.0.2 and 91.6.1, which arrives to address two vulnerabilities which were classified as critical.
Vulnerabilities that were fixed in this released version allowed to circumvent the isolation of the test area and allow code to run with browser privileges when rendering specially crafted content. Both issues are said to have exploits that are already being used to launch attacks.
Far details have not been disclosed It is only known that the first vulnerability (CVE-2022-26485) is associated with access to an already freed memory area (Use-after-free) in the code to process the XSLT parameter, and the second (CVE-2022-26486 ) with access to memory already freed in the WebGPU IPC framework.
It is because of that recommended to all users from browsers based on the Firefox engine that have not yet updated their browser, to install the relevant updates urgently.
In addition, it is mentioned that users of Tor Browser, based on the ESR branch of Firefox 91, should be especially vigilant when installing updates, since vulnerabilities can lead not only to system compromise, but also to deanonymization. of the user. An update with the elimination of the considered vulnerabilities for Tor Browser has not yet been formed.