Mozilla Firefox 100 release update for desktop and Android on 3rd May 2022. With this update, Mozilla has introduce many new features, fixes, and changes.
The Firefox Web browser now supports subtitles/ captions in the picture-in-picture (PiP) mode on YouTube, Prime Video, and Netflix. Subtitles will now automatically appear in PiP mode if you already have them turn on in the in-page video player.
This feature is now also support on websites that utilise WebVTT (Web Video Text Track) format, like Coursera.org.
Mozilla has introduce changes with the 100th version of its browser.
Many new video playback features have add to the Firefox browser.
Mac users running on macOS 11+ can now enjoy HDR video streaming on YouTube.
Also, hardware-accelerate AV1 video decoding can now be enable on Windows systems with support GPUs.
Video overlay has enable on Windows for Intel GPUs, which is expect to reduce power usage during video playback.
There are also a couple of new language support features.
Firefox is now program to give users the option to change the browser language if it does not match the system language when open after a fresh installation.
The developers have also add additional languages for the Firefox spell-checking feature.
With this release of the 100th version, Mozilla has made some improvements to the interface as well.
The indicator for links has change to a solid blue line instead of a dot one to improve its visibility.
An option has add that allows users to select a prefer colour scheme for websites.
A few tweaks have also made that are believe to improve the performance of the volume slider on Twitch.
This Firefox update also brings many security fixes with general performance improvements.
Mozilla notes that the Firefox 100 might not work properly for some websites, which could be due to its new three-digit version number.
Mozilla has share a workaround if users experience such issues.
