Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow’s official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times.
Exciting with the Firefox 136 release is enabling hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux by default. It’s a long overdue change and finally in place for improving the AMD Linux graphics experience with the Firefox web browser.
Also notable for Firefox 136 on the Linux side is now offering AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) binaries. Mozilla is now producing Linux AArch64 Firefox official binaries to complement their x86 and x86_64 official binary releases.
Firefox 136 also brings improved HTTPS handling, preferring PNG images when copying images out of Firefox, Cookie Banner Handling by default in private browsing mode is now disabled, using LZMA compression for Firefox macOS DMG packages, and other enhancements.
For web developers, Firefox 136 adds support for the “autocorrect” global attribute for auto-correction on editable text elements, WebRTC can now send and receive video encoded using AV1, WebRTC simulcast screen-shared video using H.264 is now supported, and a variety of other updates.
Firefox 136.0 binaries can be downloaded from Mozilla.org.
