Release Web browser Firefox 88 . In addition, update branches with a long support for 78.10.0 . On the stage beta testing Basic innovations :
- In the PDF Viewer, support is added to the input forms integrated into PDF files, in which JavaScript is used to ensure interactive interaction with the user.
- In the print output system, the localization of the measurement units used to specify the fields are made.
- Restrictions on the intensity of the credentials of the authority request to access the microphone and the chamber are entered. Such requests will not be shown if the user has already provided access to the same device for the same site for the last 50 seconds.
- Calling the tool to create screenshots is deleted from the “Page Actions” shown when you click on the dot in the address bar. To create screenshots, it is recommended to call the corresponding tool for the context menu shown when you click right-click or place a shortcut in the panel through the external type setting interface.
- Added support for scaling with a plug-in touchpads in Linux with graphic environments based on Wayland protocol.
- is enabled by default support for AVIF image format (AV1 Image Format), which involves intraframe compression technology from video encoding format AV1.
- When you start Firefox in XFCE and KDE environments, the use of the computing engine Webrender . In Firefox 89 is expected Enable Webrender for all other Linux users, including all versions of Mesa and Systems with NVIDIA drivers ( Previously, Webrender was enabled only for GNOME in the presence of Intel and AMD drivers). Webrender is written in the RUST language and allows you to achieve a significant increase in the speed of drawing and reduce the load on the CPU due to the removal on the side of the GPU operations to draw the contents of the page that are implemented through the shaders performed in the GPU. For forced inclusion in About: Config, you should activate the “GFX.WeBeRer.Enabled” setting or run Firefox from the MOZ_WEBRERDER = 1.
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