Firefox 104 now available, with new gestures for Linux and other news for which we will still have to wait

As we advanced at the end of last month, Mozilla now allows you to download a new version of your web browser that introduces new gestures for Linux users. Until now, to advance through the history we had to do it from the arrows on the top bar or by pressing Alt and sliding two fingers to the left or right. From Firefox 104 You no longer need to press Alt, but you do need to be under Wayland.

Mozilla already included this novelty in the previous version of your browser, but the difference is that it is now activated by default. Among the rest of the news, which Mozilla will make official within 2-3 hours, we have performance improvements. Firefox 104 will reduce resource consumption of the browser when it is minimized, similar to what it already does with tabs. This will help save battery.

Other new features in Firefox 104

Among the other novelties, Firefox supports Disney+ subtitles when viewing its content in Picture-in-Picture. It will work if the video is being viewed in video.js. All of the above is supposed to be already available for all operating systems... but not everything is like that.

So that we do not forget that not all users are the same for everyone, Firefox now includes support for scroll-snap-stop (css property), and the built-in profiling tool can analyze the energy use of each website, as long as you're using one of the latest versions of macOS + Apple M1 or Windows 11. Linux users will have to wait until further notice.

Mozilla has also taken advantage of the release of Firefox 104 to polish things up a bit, and several security patches are included to improve performance. One of them improve some css transitions, something that all companies should work on because not all browsers display everything equally well.

Firefox 104 is available since yesterday in the Mozilla server, but its launch will not be official until 14:15 p.m. or 23:XNUMX p.m. today, August XNUMX. When the time comes, the company will publish a official list of news and can be downloaded from its official website. Linux users who use the official repositories version of our distribution will receive the new packages in the next few hours.