Firefox 125 It is now officially available as a new version of Mozilla’s web browser, which continues to fight not to fall into irrelevance, while only Linux seems to remain a stronghold, as it still maintains many users there and is where it best competes technologically with Chromium. thanks to better support for Wayland and more advanced support for hardware acceleration.

Firefox 125 brings several new features, among which it stands out AV1 codec support for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)which should allow better quality playback of videos in the format provided by video providers through streaming which rely on DRM. AV1 is one of the big promises in the video sector mainly due to the superior quality-to-size ratio it offers compared to many of its competitors, which is reinforced by being open and not subject to abusive patents.

The second news that Mozilla mentions is support for text highlighting in the PDF document viewer. Obviously, this is not a revolutionary detail, but it is a small step that allows Firefox to replace PDF viewers, which for many users have not been necessary for several years, especially since web browsers can cover this function in addition to being necessary work with these types of files in an advanced way.

One feature that has recently become readily available is Firefox View, which helps you “revisit content you’ve previously discovered.” In Firefox 125, this section gained the ability to display pinned tabs in the “Open Tabs” section. This is in addition to the inclusion of tab indicators in ‘Open Tabs’, which allow you to see which tabs are playing media content, with the ability to mute them and unmute them.

Firefox 125 is a new security boost It more proactively blocks downloads from URLs that are considered potentially untrustworthy. On the other hand, but staying with URL related stuff, the URL Suggestion Paste feature gives users a way to quickly visit the ones they’ve copied. When the clipboard contains a URL and the address bar is in focus, it will automatically appear as an autocomplete result.

The Mozilla web browser now offers the option to enable automatic web proxy detection (WPAD) while the application itself is configured to use system proxy settings.

The latest innovation is the ability to search in the address bar for cards that are open in other containers, for which you must first add a plugin that supports separating cards into containers.

Details about Mozilla Firefox 125 are available in the release notes, while the application can be obtained for Windows, macOS and Linux in the corresponding download section. If you have it installed, it can be forced to update via Main Menu > Help > “About Firefox”, although for Linux it makes sense to wait for it to arrive via the distribution’s repositories, Snap and/or Flathub (Flatpak). On Android, it is provided through the Google Play Store.