A new monthly release of Mozilla Firefox web browser is out. It’s Firefox 137.0!
The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. But according to the Github release notes page, Firefox 137.0 introduced new experimental tab group feature, allowing to group open tabs together with unique name, color code, which are always saved and can be closed then reopen later.
NOTE: This new feature is introduced to the user base through a progressive rollout. It may not yet be available to all users.
To create a group, just drag a tab onto another, hold until you see a highlight, then release to create. Then, you have the option to name the group and change its color.
And, you can add more tabs to the group by using Add Tab to New Group context menu option, or remove tabs from a group by either dragging out or use Remove from Group context menu option.
Besides that, the release also refreshed the address bar. It now has a unified search button helps to switch between search engines and search modes with ease, Secondary Action Buttons that suggest for common Firefox features (e.g, print this page), and allows to use descriptive keywords (e.g., @bookmarks, @history, @actions) to access various address bar search modes.
For Linux, Firefox 137.0 now supports High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), aka H.265, video playback. And, it allows to use the address bar as a calculator.
Other changes include:
- Use the page search engine (if any) from address bar.
- Identify all links in PDFs and turns them into hyperlinks.
- Ability to save signature and sign PDFs.
- Support for the SVG 2 path API.
- Support for the hyphenate-limit-chars property
- Display fonts metadata (e.g., font version, designer, vendor, license) in the Inspector Fonts panel.
- Allows to override network request responses with local files in network panel.
- And security fixes.
How to Get Firefox 137.0
The official Firefox 137.0 announcement and the download link is available via the link below:
If you can’t wait, just grab the new release package from release archive page. While Ubuntu users may either wait the automatic snap package updates or use apt repositories for native .deb package.
