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126.0a1 Firefox Nightly

March 18, 2024

Version 126.0a1, first offered to Nightly channel users on March 18, 2024

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.

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New

  • Starting with Firefox 124, a simpler and more unified dialog for clearing user data is now available in Nightly builds. In addition to streamlining data categories, the new dialog also provides insights into the site data size corresponding to the selected time range.

    Bug 1874702
  • Starting with Firefox 125, Nightly builds support resolving HTTPS DNS records with the operating system's DNS resolver on specific platforms (Windows 11, Linux, Android 10+) without requiring DNS over HTTPS to be enabled. This capability allows the use of HTTP/3 without needing to use the Alt-Svc header, upgrades requests to HTTPS when the DNS record is present, and enables wider use of ECH. This feature is expected to ship in Firefox 126.

    Bug 1874464
  • A simpler and more unified dialog for clearing user data is now available.
    In addition to streamlining data categories, the new dialog also provides insights into the site data size corresponding to the selected time range.

    Bug 1883764
  • Enabled AV1 hardware decode acceleration on macOS for M3 Macs.

    Bug 1871796

Fixed

  • Fix for MFSA 2024-15 included in 2024-03-21 builds and newer.

Changed

  • For consistency with Firefox Desktop and addons.mozilla.org, Firefox for Android's "add-ons" settings have been renamed to "Extensions".

    Bug 1885561

Developer

Web Platform

  • Starting with Firefox 125, the transition-behavior CSS property is now supported in Nightly builds.

    Bug 1805727
  • Starting with Firefox 125, Nightly builds will attempt to establish TLS connections using a hybrid post-quantum key agreement mechanism (X25519+Kyber768). This may result in slow TLS handshakes or failed connections on networks with TLS intercepting middleboxes. The feature can be disabled by setting the security.tls.enable_kyber preference to false.

    Bug 1878725
  • Starting with Firefox 126, the shape() function on clip-path property is now supported in nightly builds.

    Bug 1823463
  • Starting with Firefox 126, the shape() function on offset-path property is supported in nightly builds.

    Bug 1884424
  • Starting with Firefox 126, interpolation between path() function and shape() function is now supported in nightly builds.

    Bug 1884425
  • Implemented URL.parse(). Unlike the URL constructor, which throws when parsing fails, the static URL.parse() method instead returns null.

    Bug 1887611
  • The CSS zoom property has been enabled by default following a lot of web compatibility and standardization work in the CSSWG.

    Bug 390936
  • Added support for CSS Custom :state() and CustomStateSet.

    Bug 1887543
  • Aded support for Screen Wake Lock API.

    Bug 1874849
  • Added support for IDBFactory.databases for enumeration of IndexedDB databases.

    Bug 934640

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