Mozilla Firefox 131.0 AIO Silent Arabic/English/French

大†Shinegumi†大 · March 20

Firefox 131 looks like an interesting update introducing temporary site permissions, such as geolocation, which will be automatically removed after one hour or when the tab is closed, and support for text fragments to allow users to link directly to a specific portion of text in a web document via a special URL fragment.

This release also improves the built-in translation feature by remembering languages that were previously used for translations when suggesting a default translation language and re-introduces the ability to navigate to the search engine home page by clicking on the search bar icons with a SHIFT key modifier.

On top of that, Firefox will now display a visual preview of a tab’s contents when hovering the mouse over an unfocused tab. The new tab preview feature can be disabled in Settings > General > Tabs by unchecking the “Show an image preview when you hover on a tab” option.

This feature was partially implemented in Firefox 129 and Firefox 130, as Mozilla said that will progressively roll it out to Firefox users. However, I still don’t have this feature in my Firefox 130 installation at the moment of writing (the browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled setting in about:config is set to false). Firefox 131 will implement previews for background tabs on mouse hover for everyone.

Tab previews in Mozilla Firefox 131

The tab preview feature can be disabled in Settings > General

For Android users, Firefox 131 enables protection against suspected fingerprinters using custom and strict enhanced tracking protection options and support for saving bookmarks in the folder where the last bookmark was saved rather than defaulting to the top-level bookmarks folder.

For web developers, Firefox 131 brings support for CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State), which allows them to opt a cookie into storage partitioned per top-level sit, the ability to reject SameSite=None cookies when there’s no Secure attribute included, and more SVG 2 updates by deprecating some elements.

It also looks like Firefox 131 addresses a crash for Wayland users that occurred when using the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers and implements an Action option in Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts.