Mozilla has just announced the availability of the final version of Firefox 125, which implements interesting improvements. Among other new features, it includes URL paste suggestions that allow the user to more quickly access addresses copied to the system clipboard. Additionally, it includes the ability to highlight in PDF documents and block downloads from URLs that may be untrustworthy.
The Firefox browser is positioned as the third option among Windows users, behind the popular Google Chrome and Edge, Microsoft’s browser. We are talking about an open source browser that has been available for many years and has a very good user base.
New functions and features implemented
As is usually the case with Mozilla browser updates, it comes with many improvements. Without a doubt the most interesting of all has to do with PDF documents. Now, this browser allows you to highlight parts of a PDF file, seeking to be the default browser to open these files. If you want to start exploring it, you can download it from here.
It also includes new features regarding URLs. The first is that it allows you to paste the copied addresses to the clipboard more quickly. The option to paste the copied URL will appear in the address bar when we click on this point. In addition, a system has been implemented to proactively block downloads that come from URLs that may be untrustworthy.
This implementation has been designed to offer users greater productivity. This simple element should reduce access times to new web pages that we intend to open from the browser and have selected on the system clipboard.
Another interesting novelty is that if we have a tab container extension, it will allow us to search from the address bar for the tabs open in the different containers.
These are all the new features of Firefox 125:
- AV1 support for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).
- Support for AV1 video codec with encrypted media extensions.
- Allows you to enable the Web Proxy Auto Detection (WPAD) option when configured to use system proxy settings.
- WebAssembly multi-memory mode is now enabled by default. WASM multi-memory allows modules to use and import multiple independent linear memory regions.
- Support for Unicode text segmentation in JavaScript.
- They have removed the BCP47 variant and extension in the Accept-Language header of HTTP requests for the Android version.
- Update the “align-content” property to work on a block layout to allow aligning the block without using a flex container or grid.
- It offers developers support for “content-box” and “stroke-box” which are “tansform-box” values within the CSS programming language.
- Includes the “navigator.clipboard.readText()” web option for web page APIs.
Users located in Canada or the United States will have an additional add-on. You will be prompted to save your address the first time you submit an address form when using the new version of the browser. This will allow you to automatically complete forms in the future.
