Firefox Nightly
Release Notes

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121.0a1 Firefox Nightly

October 23, 2023

Version 121.0a1, first offered to Nightly channel users on October 23, 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

  • Firefox now prompts Windows users to install the Microsoft AV1 Extension to enable hardware decoding support from about:support if not already installed.

    Bug 1860198
  • Firefox now supports Voice Control commands on macOS systems.

  • Firefox now allows you to force-underline links in websites. This is useful for people with achromatopsia for example.

    Bug 1664278
  • On Linux, Firefox now defaults to the Wayland compositor when available instead of XWayland. This brings support for touchpad & touchscreen gestures, swipe-to-nav, per-monitor DPI settings, better graphics performance, and more.

    Note that due to Wayland protocol limitations, Picture-in-Picture windows require an extra user interaction (generally right-click on the window) or a shell / desktop-environment tweak. See bug 1621261 for related discussion and tracking, this post for a KDE configuration, and this extension for GNOME.

    Bug 1752398

Web Platform

  • Starting with Firefox 120, ULPFE/RED is now on by default for video in Nightly builds. This provides additional protection against packet loss for video during WebRTC calls.

    Bug 1852837
  • The CSS text-indent property now supports the hanging and each-line keywords, offering more convenient paragraph layout for styles such as bibliographies, poetry, etc.

    Bug 784648
  • Firefox now supports text-wrap: balance, which can improve the appearance of short multi-line text blocks such as long headings or captions by harmonizing the line lengths.

    Bug 1860446
  • Lazy loading iframes are now supported (<iframe loading=lazy>). Lazy loading iframes are only loaded when visible, so non-critical iframes can load later when needed to speed up initial page loads, reduce initial network usage, etc.

    Bug 1860729
  • The :has() selector is now supported. This allows authors to match elements that has, or "anchors", at least one element matching its relative selector.

    Bug 1858743
  • Support has been added for tail call elimination in WebAssembly language to improve support for functional languages.

    Bug 1846789

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