Again in July 2024, Mozilla expressed its curiosity in extending Firefox assist for Home windows 7, 8, and eight.1 whereas others like Chrome and Edge had deserted them. The browser-maker stored its promise and later introduced that these Home windows variations could be supported until March 2025.

Nonetheless, Mozilla additionally understands that they’re a small piece of the pie and nearly all of Home windows customers are on 11 or 10 with an increasing number of seemingly (maybe forcibly) shifting to Home windows 11 quickly as Home windows 10 involves an in depth. In reality, Microsoft itself seemingly needs people, even on unsupported PCs, will improve to 11.

As such, within the Firefox 134 beta 2 (noticed by Home windows Report), the corporate has added a brand new set up menu that routinely selects Firefox because the default OS browser throughout its set up. As you possibly can see within the picture beneath, the examine for “Set Firefox as default browser” is pre-selected.

The patch “Assist setting Firefox as default primarily based on installer attribution marketing campaign” tracked beneath bug ID 1923868 says:

This patch provides an startup idle job that units the browser as default if an attribution marketing campaign id of “set_default_browser” is current on first run. This works helps an upcoming experiment the place customers can have the choice to “obtain as default” by way of [[ | the stub installer marketing page ]].

Customers may see the examine in the course of the “End setup” progress monitoring:

This replace comes proper after Microsoft seemingly tries to make an effort to enhance default browser settings UI after it realized how necessary default app selections could be for customers.

Except for the brand new set up menu, Firefox 134 beta has additionally obtained hardware-accelerated HEVC/H.265 codec assist on Home windows:

New

• Firefox now helps touchpad maintain gestures on Linux. Which means kinetic (momentum) scrolling can now be interrupted by inserting two fingers on the touchpad.
• HEVC {hardware} assist is carried out for Home windows customers.

Mounted

• Mounted a difficulty that began with macOS Sonoma the place the emoji picker would open and instantly shut when opened with the Cmd+Ctrl+Area shortcut.
• Mounted a difficulty that began with macOS Sonoma the place the emoji picker would additionally insert the character “e” within the chosen textual content discipline/field when opening the emoji picker utilizing the Fn+e shortcut.
  
  We’ve got additionally fastened this for related shortcuts utilizing the Fn key.

Modified

• Firefox follows now the mannequin HTML specification for transient consumer activation extra carefully. This alteration makes popup blocking much less strict in instances the place earlier variations of Firefox had been overly aggressive, decreasing faulty blocking prompts.

Yow will discover the changelog right here on Mozilla’s official web site.