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Google Chrome web browser announced the new stable 146 version on Tuesday for Linux, Android, macOS, ChromeOS and Windows users.
The new monthly release finally merged the feature Vertical Tabs, allowing to move the tab bar from top to the left side. And, the side-bar can be resized to either show both icons and titles or display only site icons.
Firefox 148.0 is finally available to download today, after 6 more Beta testing releases.
The new version of this popular web browser finally added visible options to disable the AI features, either globally or individually.
Google Chrome web browser released new 145 version yesterday for Linux, Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Android users.
The new version added support decoding JPEG-XL (.jxl) image format by using jxl-rs, a memory-safe pure Rust written decoder, instead of libjxl.
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Firefox 147.0, the new monthly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download.
The new version is postponed by almost one week, but introduced many exciting new features.
After a month of beta development, Firefox 146.0 is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS users.
The new release of this web browser finally added native support for fractional scaling on Linux with Wayland session (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04+ and Fedora Workstation).
Firefox introduced AI chatbot, AI powered link preview, and search images with Google Lens etc AI powered features in the past releases.
According to the Firefox Privacy Notice, it does NOT have access to the AI conversations or what user input, but do collect technical and interaction data, such as how often a chatbot provider or suggested prompts are used, and the length of selected text.
After 9 Beta releases, Mozilla Firefox 145.0 is finally available to download.
The new browser version introduced new phase of privacy protections. For Private Browsing or when using Enhanced Tracking Protection set to Strict, the amount of Firefox users track-able by fingerprinters is reduced by half. See this page for more details.
In addition, Enhanced Bounce Tracking Protection stateless mode is now enabled by default in ETP Strict, blocking more advanced tracking techniques based on redirection.
Firefox 144.0, the October release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download today!
The new browser release continues improving the tab group feature support. It now supports dragging a tab into a collapsed tab group without automatically expanding it.
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Firefox 143.0, the new monthly release of the popular free open-source web browser, is available to download.
The new release of Mozilla’s web browser added support installing websites as web apps for Windows user.
For running website, there’s a new “Add tab to taskbar” icon in the right corner of address bar. By clicking on it, will install the website as web app, and pin it into task bar.
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!
