Firefox 142.0 Available with More Flexible ETP Strict Exceptions

Firefox 142.0, the August release of the free open-source web browser, is available to download.

The official release note for the new version is not ready at the moment of writing, though the source tarball and installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS are out!

According to the Github releases page, Firefox 142.0 added new ETP stick mode options to automatically apply required exceptions to avoid website breakage. Exceptions are split into baseline (core functionality) and convenience (extra features). And, it’s also available when working in ETP Custom mode.

The AI-powered link preview feature that was introduced as experimental since version 139.0, now is generally available for en-US, en-CA, en-GB, en-AU users.

The feature allows to long press (or right-click and choose “Preview Link”) a link to preview the page that can optionally include AI-generated key points. The AI content are processed on user’s local device, though it recommends more than 3 GB of available RAM.

And, this features is gradually rolling out and so far only enabled for users mentioned above. While, others can get it in Firefox Labs setting page.

For users in United States, Firefox now groups article recommendations on New Tab page into topic sections, like Sports, Food, and Entertainment. And, you can block ones that you’re not interested in.

On Windows, clicking a persistent notification when Firefox is closed / restarted will now properly open the browser with the relevant web-page, instead of opening the main page of the website.

In Firefox 142, when you click collapse a tab group, the active tab in that group is still visible. This can keep your header tidier when working with many tabs open in active tab group.

Other changes in the release include:

• Add Remove from Sidebar option to side-bar extension icon.
• Improve search results from browsing history via the address bar.
• Improve drag-and-drop support for blob images.
• Various security fixes.

There are as well new features and improvements for developers. They include wllama API for extensions support, allowing developers to integrate local language model (LLM) into add-ons, and:

• Prioritized Task Scheduling API, to assign and manage task priorities.
• Selection.getComposedRanges() API, to accurately get selected text ranges across shadow DOM boundaries.
• URLPattern API, to match and parse URLs using a standardized pattern syntax.
• Display Request Headers/Cookies/Params in the Network panel even request isn’t finished yet.

Get Firefox 142.0

For more changes and the download link, go to its website via the link below:

As mentioned, the release note is not ready at the moment of writing. If you can’t wait to try it out, download it from this FTP page.

Source: UbuntuHandbook