Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 1 October 2024 at 09:44 AM EDT. 14 Comments
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Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser.

First and arguably most exciting: Firefox 131 adds a tab preview when hovering the mouse over background tabs. Thus now easier to navigate between different browser tabs...

Firefox 131


Firefox 131 also now allows grantng temporary permissions to websites with those permissions lasting for one hour or when the tab is closed. Firefox 131 also adds support for Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS). Firefox 131 also brings SVG2 improvements, support for text fragments, Swedish translations, and various security fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Firefox 131 web browser update via Mozilla.org.
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