Firefox 105 It recently saw the light of day as the latest version of Mozilla’s web browser, which still hasn’t grown in user share despite the obvious improvements it has seen in recent months. Once again, we continue to reveal the most relevant news and changes.

To begin with, we enabled by default on Windows, support for scrolling history by swiping left or right with two fingersa function which of course requires a touch pad be used. We continue with touch interfaces, although now on macOS, scrolling with touch pad was more accessible by reducing unwanted diagonal shifting against the intended shifting axis. To stop targeting specific systems, on Linux, Firefox’s performance has been improved in contexts where RAM is low.

On the other hand, and this has made it to all supported systems, the speed of searching for individual elements in large lists has been doubled, achieved by replacing methods array.includes Y array.includes an optimized version of SIMD.

Firefox now conforms to the User Timing L3 specification, which adds optional arguments to methods performance.mark Y performance.measure provide start times, end times, duration and attached details. Another great thing is the new option included in the print preview dialog that allows the user to print only the current page.

Firefox 105

And so far the news of Firefox 105, which cannot be said to be a revolutionary release, but contains small additions that should slightly improve the experience on the three major desktop systems. A web browser can be obtained for Windows, macOS and Linux from the respective downloads section, while for an update you should follow the path Main menu > Help > “About Firefox”, although in the case of Linux it is logical to expect it to arrive via the distribution’s repositories, Snap and/or Flathub (Flatpak). Firefox 105 hasn’t arrived on Android yet, but we don’t expect it to be published on the Google Play Store for a while.

We remember that Firefox became the only solid bastion left to prevent Chromium’s monopoly on the web. In addition to using a different rendering engine, the app has been incorporating interesting privacy features like URL scrubbing and cookie protection in recent months.