Firefox Nightly
Release Notes

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112.0a1 Firefox Nightly

February 13, 2023

Version 112.0a1, first offered to Nightly channel users on February 13, 2023

Firefox Nightly gets updated every day and as a consequence, the release notes for the Nightly channel are updated continuously to reflect features that have reached sufficient maturity to benefit from community feedback and bug reports.

Warning: Features listed here may or may not make a final release of Firefox.

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New

  • Say hello to enhanced Picture-in-Picture! Rewind, check video duration, and effortlessly switch to full-screen mode on the web's most popular video websites.

    Bug 1778801
  • The Awesomebar result menu is now enabled in Firefox Nightly, allowing you to remove history results and dismiss sponsored Firefox Suggest results.

    Bug 1789661
  • Right-clicking on password fields now shows an option to reveal the password.

    Bug 1816988
  • Ubuntu Linux users can now import their browser data from the Chromium Snap package. Currently, this will only work if Firefox is not also installed as a Snap package, but work is underway to address this!

    Bug 1467094
  • Do you use the tab list panel in the tab bar? If so, you can now close tabs by middle-clicking items in that list.

    Bug 953217
  • You've always been able to un-close a tab by using (Cmd/Ctrl)-Shift-T. Now, that same shortcut will restore the previous session if there are no more closed tabs from the same session to re-open.

    Bug 1423125
  • Starting with Firefox 112, Nightly users on macOS and Linux can now use FIDO2 / WebAuthn authenticators over USB. Some advanced features, such as fully passwordless logins, require a PIN to be set on the authenticator. It is expected to ship to all users in a future release.

    Bug 1814487
  • For all ETP Strict users, we extended the list of known tracking parameters that are removed from URLs to further protect our users from cross-site tracking.

    Bug 1773983

Changed

  • The deprecated U2F Javascript API is now disabled by default. The U2F protocol remains usable through the WebAuthn API. The U2F API can be re-enabled using the security.webauth.u2f preference.

    Bug 1809333

Web Platform

  • “Clear” button, newly added to the date picker panel, allows users to quickly clear the input with type “date“ or “datetime-local” and provides familiar experience across browsers.

    Bug 1811187

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