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Firefox 128.0 official release should be ready now via built-in updating feature...

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  • Firefox can now translate selections of text and hyperlinked text to other languages from the context menu.

    screenshot of the context menu when right clicking on selected text with a focus the translation option from the context menu, and then displaying the Translation feature after the translation option was clicked


  • For users in the US and Canada, Firefox will now show your recent searches or currently trending searches when you open the Address Bar to get you back to your previous search session or inspire your next one.

    screenshot of the open Address bar listing recent searches and trending searches


  • Firefox now has a simpler and more unified dialog for clearing user data. In addition to streamlining data categories, the new dialog also provides insights into the site data size corresponding to the selected time range.

    screenshot of the Clear browsing data and cookies dialog. Demonstrating the new features of clearing data within a selected time range and the size of that data


  • Firefox now supports playback of protected content from streaming sites like Netflix while in Private Browsing mode.
  • Firefox now supports the experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API, which provides an alternative to user tracking for ad attribution. This experiment is only enabled via origin trial and can be disabled in the new Website Advertising Preferences section in the Privacy and Security settings.
  • On macOS, microphone capture through getUserMedia will now use system-provided voice processing when applicable, improving audio quality.
  • Firefox is now available in the Saraiki (skr) language.

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  • Firefox now proxies DNS by default when using SOCKS v5, avoiding leaking DNS queries to the network when using SOCKS v5 proxies.
  • Various security fixes.

Changed​

  • Firefox now supports rendering more text/* file types inline, rather than requiring them to be downloaded to be viewed.
  • The root certificate used to verify add-ons and signed content has been renewed to avoid upcoming expiration.
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Jan Willy said:
An interesting new setting. Perhaps well intended, but it doesn't feel good. Which companies make use of this? And do they really stop tracking me (in other ways)? Besides that, to me it looks rather complicated.
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I disabled it. The wording suggest it is giving ad companies a way to track you but with some anonymous token. But, I bet Google and Meta have found a way to deanonymize it already.
 
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Firefox 128.0.2 stable release:
  • Fixed an audio echo in video calls on macOS under certain conditions. (Bug 1908539)
  • Fixed an issue where the Adguard extension popup was not displaying. (Bug 1906132)
  • Fixed an issue causing some screen readers to fail to read when navigating by character in rich text editors. (Bug 1905021)
  • Fixed visual glitches when dark mode is enabled in Windows ARM devices. (Bug 1897444)
  • Fixed an issue causing NTLM authentication failure. (Bug 1908115)
  • Fixed an issue where content displayed on mouseover was not captured in a screenshot. (Bug 1905468)
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Marko :) said:
I randomly stumbled on this option and it was turned on when I updated to Firefox 128.0. I switched it off, and looking at it now, I can't even turn it on again if I wanted to. Weird.

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If "Firefox Data Collection and Use" is disabled, "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" is disabled automatically.
In that case, in Firefox 128.0.2 and up, "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" is now grayed out.
See:

Did the advertising prefs "feature" get disabled?
It's grayed out for me and I can't turn it on even if I wanted to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ean4ar/did_the_advertising_prefs_feature_get_disabled/

If you are opted out of Telemetry you were automatically opted out of "privacy preserving attribution" this was always true, but there was a bug in the GUI, so it wasn't clear.
Now that 128.02 is released, that bug has been fixed, so it now shows the correct status.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ean4ar/comment/len4oh7/
 
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Marko :) said:
I randomly stumbled on this option and it was turned on when I updated to Firefox 128.0. I switched it off, and looking at it now, I can't even turn it on again if I wanted to. Weird.

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Same here, guess either disabled by Mozilla after the topic became published... or happened automatically due to my changes of Firefox settings for Privacy & Security

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