Mozilla Delivers Firefox 126

With apologies for my lateness reporting this, Mozilla released Firefox version 126 the other day, with some useful new features.

“Firefox version 126.0 [was] first offered to Release channel users on May 14, 2024,” the release notes explain.

Here are the key new features:

“Copy without site tracking” improvements. This excellent feature, available in Firefox’s context menu when you right-click a selected URL in the Address bar, lets you copy a clean version of the URL to the Clipboard with any tracking information. It’s been updated in Firefox 126 to support nested URLs, and it now blocks over 300 tracking parameters, many from “major shopping websites.”

AV1 hardware accelerated decoding improvements. Firefox can now uses its hardware accelerated AV1 decoding capabilities on M3-based Macs.

NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR) and RTX Video HDR support. Firefox now supports VSR for enhancing and sharpening low-resolution videos when upscaled and RTX Video HDR for automatically converting SDR video content to more vibrant HDR10 video in real-time. Both of these features require at least a 20-series NVIDIA RTX GPU, 64-bit Windows 10/11, and NVIDIA driver version 550 or higher. You can enable these features in the NVIDIA control panel.

As always, Firefox 126 also ships with various security fixes as well.