Firefox 123 Adds Firefox View Search and a Web Compatibility Reporting Tool

Mozilla today delivered a new version of its flagship web browser that adds search functionality to its Firefox View feature and a new Web Compatibility Reporting Tool.

“We’ve integrated search into Firefox View,” the Firefox 123 release notes explain. “You can now search through all of the tabs on each of the section subpages – Recent Browsing, Open Tabs, Recently Closed Tabs, Tabs from other devices, or History.”

For those unfamiliar, Firefox View is a feature unique to this browser that appears like a pinned tab to the left of the browser tabs. It lets you access your recent activity in Firefox across multiple devices from a single location, and with this addition, you can now search that activity across all your devices to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Firefox 123 also includes a new Web Compatibility Reporting Tool so that users can report what will no doubt be a growing list of issues they experience because Mozilla maintains its own rendering engine rather than adopting the de facto standard, Chromium. Using this tool will “directly help [Mozilla] detect, target, and fix the most impacted sites to make your browsing experience on Firefox smoother.” You can find this tool by opening the Firefox menu and choosing “Report broken site.”

Firefox 123 also adds Address bar settings to Search settings, optimizations for the macOS ARM64 and Android versions of the browser, and off-main-thread canvas support on macOS, Linux, and Android. There are also some security fixes and other fixes and minor updates for enterprise customers and developers.

You can download Firefox from the Mozilla website.