With the release of Firefox 134, branch 135 is now in beta. It offers several notable improvements, including support for LZMA compression on Linux.
This change was announced in November. The .tar.bz2 archives will thus become .tar.xz. The benefits are not negligible: Firefox packages will be around 25% smaller and therefore faster to download, as well as twice as fast decompression, speeding up the installation process. Mozilla also explained that it chose LZMA over Zstandard because of better compression, although decompression was slightly slower.
Firefox 135 beta has other improvements. On Linux and macOS, users can use the Exit keyboard shortcut to close the active tab. The browser also has several barriers to prevent certain sites from drowning the history under a deluge of consecutive visits over a short period.
We also note a change for the “Copy without site tracking” function, renamed to “Copy cleaned link”. A way of “ clarify expectations for this feature ”, according to Mozilla. The effect, however, has not changed: “ a list-based approach that removes known tracking parameters from links “. Additionally, the function can now be used on plain text links.
Firefox 135 beta also reintroduces the famous Cookie Banner Blocker function, responsible for automatically refusing cookies when a banner is displayed on a site. The tool has been in the works for a long time and passes a head through each beta. But we don’t know if it will still be present this time when Firefox 135 arrives in final version.
Finally, on the Android side, let’s note the arrival of an option to authorize the browser to automatically send crash reports.
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