Mozilla Releases Firefox 131 With Tab Preview and Text-Specific Links

(Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:25PM (msmash) from the moving-forward dept.)

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News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/03/1940215/mozilla-releases-firefox-131-with-tab-preview-and-text-specific-links
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Mozilla has [1]released Firefox 131 for multiple platforms, addressing security vulnerabilities and introducing some new features. The update fixes at least seven high-risk security issues, none reportedly exploited in the wild. New features include Tab Preview, which displays thumbnails and details when hovering over background tabs, and temporary location permission storage. Firefox now also supports URL fragment text directives, allowing users to link to specific text passages on web pages.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/

The actual stuff which was fixed. (Score:2)

by Seven Spirals ( 4924941 )

Here is a more detailed description of the fixes. This story abstract was too ... abstract:

CVE-2024-9391 : Users could be prevented from exiting full-screen mode in Firefox Focus for Android, potentially allowing address bar spoofing.

CVE-2024-9392 : A compromised content process could bypass site isolation, allowing the arbitrary loading of cross-origin pages.

CVE-2024-9393 : Cross-origin access to PDF contents was possible through multipart responses, particularly affecting Android users.

CVE-2024-9395 :

going to give Firefox a spin (Score:2)

by FudRucker ( 866063 )

on my android phone, i hate chrome and never use it, vivaldi is a little better but has some annoyances so the fox gets a turn

Re: (Score:2)

by FudRucker ( 866063 )

due to network slowness the downloading of Firefox will have to wait

Disabling tab previews (Score:4, Informative)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 )

> New features include Tab Preview, which displays thumbnails and details when hovering over background tabs, ...

There are 2 about:config setting for this and changes to both take effect immediately w/o restarting.

> browser.tabs.hoverPreview.enabled

> -- Display/Hide (completely disable) General-Tabs preference: "Show an image preview when you hover on a tab"

> -- Note: If disabled (hidden) will still show title bar text on tab hover.

> browser.tabs.hoverPreview.showThumbnails

> -- Enable/Disable General->Tabs preference: "Show an image preview when you hover on a tab"

> -- Note: If disabled will still show title bar text and URL on tab hover.

I have both disabled as I find them annoying.

"List all Tabs" is back (Score:2)

by IWantMoreSpamPlease ( 571972 )

Just underneath the "close" button in Windows. I'd love to get rid of that...again, but it doesn't seem as easy as last time it surfaced. Anyone know how to get rid of it?