Firefox 81 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Sep 21, 2020 11:08 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Mozilla’s Firefox 81 web browser is now up for grabs as the Open Source company pushed the final bits and published the new release on its FTP servers.

Firefox 81 continues the monthly release cycle and brings a bunch of new features and improvements to make your web browsing experience better, faster, more stable, more secure, and ultimately more enjoyable.

The biggest new feature in Firefox 81 appears to be new media controls that allow users to control audio and video playback through the hardware media keys on a keyboard, the media keys on a headset, or a virtual media control interface.

On Linux, this release enables the VA-API/FFmpeg hardware acceleration for video playback by default on systems using the traditional X11/X.Org Server display server.

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