Firefox 140.0 released [LWN.net]

Version 140.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include more control over vertical tabs, a dialog to add custom search engines, improvements to translation performance, and more.

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Extended support release

Posted Jun 24, 2025 18:42 UTC (Tue) by smcv (subscriber, #53363) [Link] (1 responses)

For distros and organisations that prefer fewer, larger major-version updates (like Debian), I believe this is also the beginning of a new ESR branch superseding 128.

Debian ESR

Posted Jun 26, 2025 4:49 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Debian firefox-esr seems to be sticking with the 128 branch for now.

Unloading tabs

Posted Jun 24, 2025 19:08 UTC (Tue) by EnigmaticSeraph (subscriber, #50582) [Link]

Not noted here, nor prominently in their Release Notes is that they now allow one to manually unload tabs (also in bulk). I hope this spreads to the Chromium tree as well.

Extesions Icon removal

Posted Jun 25, 2025 11:40 UTC (Wed) by mote (guest, #173576) [Link]

I know this is extremely minor in the big picture, but the ability to finally delete that useless Extensions icon from the toolbar - which Mozilla forced on us to begin with against user feedback - can finally be removed. We never asked for or wanted that forced icon in the first place, may it rest in the grave with the old forced Pocket integration code.