It is now the turn of the Firefox browser to be available in a version stamped 100. An essentially symbolic version, recalling that the announcement of the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 dates back to 2004.
Such a three-digit change to the version number raised some concerns about misinterpretation of the previously two-digit user-agent, and consequent potential compatibility issues with sites, apps, and software libraries. Experiments were carried out upstream and to correct problems.
The main new features of Firefox 100
New to Firefox version 100 is the integration of subtitles and captions into the Picture-in-Picture mode of picture-in-picture. This first concerns YouTube, Prime Video and Netflix videos. This mode also supports video captions on sites using WebVTT (Web Video Text Track) format like Twitter for example.
Initially available across the Atlantic, the new payment card auto-fill feature is being rolled out more widely and the spell checker checks spelling in multiple languages. By the way, the selection of the color scheme for sites can be found in the browser settings (Language and appearance ; Appearance of websites) with Firefox Theme, System Theme, Light, Dark options.
On Windows, hardware acceleration for the AV1 video codec is enabled with graphics cards. However, this implies a minimum 11th generation Intel Core processor, AMD GPU with RDNA 2 architecture (except Navi 24), GeForce RTX 30 series for Nvidia.
On mobile, Mozilla also reports the addition of new wallpapers, reduced visual clutter with history and tabs, HTTPS-only mode with Firefox for Android.
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