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1.8b
Feb 21, 2025

What's new in 1.8b

Firefox 135.0.1
GitHub Release
GitHub Run

Huge update filled with improvements and QoL features.

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✨ New

🔥 Tabs are handled in different containers, meaning faster transitions and better swiping experience

🔥 Added support for acrylic backgrounds for windows 11 with mica support

🔥 Added a better gradient generator that follows color theory

🔥 Added support renaming pinned tabs

🔥 Added support for a state-less empty tab (only enabled if 'zen.urlbar.replace-newtab' is enabled)

🔥 New, better on boarding experience

Pinned tabs will now have an 'indicator' to reset back to the original URL

Windows users will now be able to watch DRM content (experimental wmfcdm encrypted media, off by default)

Improved URL bar styles, colors and more

Updated to firefox 135.0.1

When opening a new tab with the URL bar, the newtab button is now selected for better understanding

Added a timer setting that states how much the newtab URL bar should wait before clearing it's contents (default is 45 seconds)

Faster initialization of the UI and better initial loading experience

Increased font size for macos users

MacOS users will now have zen display as 'Zen' instead of 'Zen Browser' in the native top bar

Removed 'status alert' green dot from tabs

Added improved and bouncier toast notifications

URL bar is now fully floatable, always at the center of the screen and with better looks

Added an option to completely ignore hovering over the compact mode sidebar ('zen.view.compact.show-sidebar-and-toolbar-on-hover' in about:config)

Improved shadows, borders and corners in common UI elements

Compact mode now also gets texture if any is set

MacOS window buttons are now mono colored (zen.widget.mac.mono-window-controls in about:config)

Add support for additional languages: Welsh, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, Hebrew, and Icelandic

Swiping between workspaces now has a force feedback and a maximum limit

Double clicking on an essential now resets to the original URL

Changed default behavior of the '-' button on pinned tabs to reset, unload and switch the tab

🐞 Bug Fixes

Fixed weird text generation when rendering PDFs/Google Docs on some websites, without the need to disable hardware acceleration

Fixed glance opening on the wrong location when expanding while opened on a normal tab

Fixed tabs being clipped while dragging with the touchpad

Fixed the floating URL bar hiding while doing IME composition

Fixed transparent URL bar when focusing it on fullscreen

Fixed workspace switching sometimes selecting the wrong previously selected tab

Fixed tabs sharing screens not hiding when switching workspaces

Fixed URL bar glitching when focusing in compact mode

Fixed pinned tabs separator using the wrong tabs when hiding

Fixed rearranging essential tabs containing glance tabs

Fixed normal tabs opening where pinned tabs are after having a glance tab opened

Fixed trying to unload an about:* page rendering the browser useless

Fixed floating URL bar glitching hovering compact mode sidebar

Fixed pinned/essentials tabs being reorganized when opening multiple windows

Fixed renaming/changing icons on some occasions not working

Fixed pinning tabs with glance opened not working

Fixed pinned tabs / essentials opening in the container that the window was opened

Fixed not being able to move around multiple pinned tabs at the same time

Fixed selecting essentials/pinned tabs when switching workspaces

Fixed opening new windows with container specific essentials showing all at once

🚧 Breaking Changes

Removed profile switching toolbar button and dialog, now that firefox will release them in their next version

Bottom toolbar has been reset to the default


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