Ahead of tomorrow’s official announcement, the Mozilla Firefox 121.0 release binaries have hit the mirrors and it’s keeping to the most exciting Christmas gift for Linux desktop users: Wayland support enabled by default!
Firefox 121 is ready to go with allowing Wayland support to be used by default on modern Linux desktops rather than defaulting to XWayland.
Some Linux distributions and package builds have been using the native Wayland path for a while but now it’s great to see the upstream builds make this default change as we get ready to embark on the 2024 Linux desktop.
X.Org/X11 support remains in place for those not using a Wayland-based desktop enviornment.
Firefox 121 also adds Voice Control command support on macOS, adds an option to always force-underline links within websites, Firefox now includes a floating button to help in creation within PDFs, various CSS feature additions, and other developer enhancements.
Firefox 121 also now supports tail call elimination in WebAssembly for enhancing support for functional languages.
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Ahead of tomorrow’s official announcement, the Mozilla Firefox 121.0 release binaries have hit the mirrors and it’s keeping to the most exciting Christmas gift for Linux desktop users: Wayland support enabled by default!
Firefox 121 is ready to go with allowing Wayland support to be used by default on modern Linux desktops rather than defaulting to XWayland.
Some Linux distributions and package builds have been using the native Wayland path for a while but now it’s great to see the upstream builds make this default change as we get ready to embark on the 2024 Linux desktop.
X.Org/X11 support remains in place for those not using a Wayland-based desktop enviornment.
Firefox 121 also adds Voice Control command support on macOS, adds an option to always force-underline links within websites, Firefox now includes a floating button to help in creation within PDFs, various CSS feature additions, and other developer enhancements.
Firefox 121 also now supports tail call elimination in WebAssembly for enhancing support for functional languages.
The original article contains 198 words, the summary contains 165 words. Saved 17%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!