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Firefox 136 with vertical tabs, new sidebar + more released

The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release offers a number of remarkable new functions. Mozilla may hope that you will help yourself to make good will of users easier in the privacy of the past week last week.

The Firefox 135 version of the last month has introduced more users to an updated register card side, which has been added in the sides translated translations out of Simplified ChinesePresent JapaneseAnd KoreanForced certificate transparency and the setting “do not follow”.

This month there will be a stable publication debut: Vertical tabs!

Right -click on an empty space in the tab strip, select Switch on vertical tabs From the context menu and bam!

Vertical tabs in action in Firefox 136 in Ubuntu

The vertical tabs are displayed by default in Favicon mode. The covering via a symbol shows a lock button and a preview of a miniature view. Press the switch on the left behind the back navigation button to expand the vertical tabs so that you can read tab titles and close a button at the other end.

Mouse between the gap to size also the size if you want to find a “sweet spot”.

Mozilla said that early testers reported that they “felt more organized after using vertical tabs for a few days”. If you are someone with many open tabs, try it out.

Firefox 136 also has a Redesigned sidebore experience, Provision of simple access to some of the integrated tools of the browser, including embedded AI chatbots (your choice; previously a laboratory function), bookmarks, browser history and tabs on other devices.

Firefox 136 Sidebar Revamp makes functions such as AI chatbots easier to access
Firefox 136 Sidebar Revamp makes functions such as AI chatbots easier to access

The new Firefox side strip is automatically activated if you try vertical tabs (and remains activated when vertical tabs are deactivated). If you do not plan to try it, you can use the updated Firefox -side bar in the in -in -in -in -in of the situation Settings> General> Browser layout.

When vertical tabs are activated, the Sidebar buttons are located below. However, if regular tabs are active, the keys on the sidebar are located at the top.

Then click on the new toolbar on the left behind the preview line (this symbol can be repositioned) to open/close the sidebar. The sidebar can be moved to the right side (and also moves vertical tabs as soon as they are coupled).

Other changes

In addition to these shiny additions, there are a number of smaller improvements.

Use the strict mode for improved tracking protection (ETP)? It is now possible to selectively unlock some social media that would otherwise be empty -*cough*Disqus* Cough* – with a catch (for now): the support is limited to a few embedding, but soon more will be added.

Firefox 136 also enables the video hardware decoding of AMD for Linux users on Mesa 24.2 or higher, plumbs in wp_linux_dmabuf_feedback The support of Wayland Protocol and offers official stable binary buildings for Linux ARM64 (AARG64) systems.

Plus:

  • Delete saved form information separately from the browser history
  • Copying pictures from Firefox Save as PNG (to get transparency)
  • Firefox is now HTTPS.
  • Address AutoFill activated for users in Great Britain.
  • New tab page Wetter -Widget to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile
  • Background tabs use efficiency seeds on Apple Silicon
  • According to Linux, MacOS installation program DMG now use the LZMA compression
  • New Tab -story cards Move the “On Pocket” button to the overflow menu item

The usual developer and the web platform change – such as support for the cookies gates -api fixes, translation updates, etc.

You can find more information about this update in the official change log.

Firefox get 136

Read this post about Ubuntu? In this case, you probably have installed Firefox and are updated on Firefox 136 in the background (if the browser is executed, you will be notified to apply the update).

If, for ReasonsYou have no Firefox installed on Ubuntu and you want it, you have the choice: there is the official SNAP package, the official Flatpak and the official Firefox -DeB from Mozilla Apt Repo.

Linux MINT users receive this update as a DEB-based update that can be installed via which can be installed MINZ update Tool – You may have to carry out and update the check if the update time plan has been adjusted.

You can also download Distro-Agnostic Linux-Binary on the Mozilla website-Official binary files are now available for the first time for ARM64 Linux distributions, which you download, unpack and double-click on the firefox File inside.

MacOS and Windows users who already use Firefox automatically receive this update from today in the background, while those who do not have it can download an installer for their system from the same download -link as Linux user (see above).