Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland
([Mozilla] 36 Minutes Ago
Firefox 146)
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The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland.
With Firefox 146, the most exciting change for this last browser release before the holidays is:
"Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux(Wayland), making rendering more effective."
Yes, Firefox on Linux is now natively supporting fractional scaling on Wayland!
[1]
Firefox 146 also now makes Firefox Labs available to all users, Firefox on macOS now has a dedicated GPU process by default, dropping Direct2D support on Windows, support for compressed elliptic curve points in WebCrypto, and updated the bundled Skia graphics library.
[2]
Firefox 146 also has some fun developer enhancements like support for the CSS text-decoration-inset property, the @scope rule now being supported, CSS contrast-color() function being available, and several new experimental web features.
More details on the changes to find with Firefox 146 via the [3]beta release notes and [4]developer changes . Firefox 146 release binaries are available for download from [5]Mozilla.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=firefox_146_lrg
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=firefox_146_linux_lrg
[3] https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0beta/releasenotes/
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/146
[5] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/146.0/
With Firefox 146, the most exciting change for this last browser release before the holidays is:
"Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux(Wayland), making rendering more effective."
Yes, Firefox on Linux is now natively supporting fractional scaling on Wayland!
[1]
Firefox 146 also now makes Firefox Labs available to all users, Firefox on macOS now has a dedicated GPU process by default, dropping Direct2D support on Windows, support for compressed elliptic curve points in WebCrypto, and updated the bundled Skia graphics library.
[2]
Firefox 146 also has some fun developer enhancements like support for the CSS text-decoration-inset property, the @scope rule now being supported, CSS contrast-color() function being available, and several new experimental web features.
More details on the changes to find with Firefox 146 via the [3]beta release notes and [4]developer changes . Firefox 146 release binaries are available for download from [5]Mozilla.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=firefox_146_lrg
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=firefox_146_linux_lrg
[3] https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0beta/releasenotes/
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/146
[5] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/146.0/