Firefox and Thunderbird 144 are here

"Tab groups was a new feature that appeared on April Fool's Day with Firefox 137. Mozilla has been improving the new feature with every release since - arguably including the contentious LLM-assisted automatic group naming that appeared in Firefox 141. Now the current tab remains visible even when you collapse a group, and a group stays collapsed even if you drag-and-drop a new tab onto the group."

"Firefox's very handy password manager now has tougher encryption. If you use the picture-in-picture video playback feature (which this video-averse vulture never does), you can now close the video without pausing it first. Firefox's computer-local automatic translation feature gains three more languages: it now supports Azerbaijani, Bangla (also known as Bengali), and Icelandic, while 17 other previously supported languages now get better translation."

"A couple of other features are getting Mozilla's maybe-you-get-it-maybe-you-don't progressive rollout treatment. There's built-in image search using Google Lens, which does sound rather useful - but it requires you to have Google as your default search engine. If you followed our hints for de-enshittifying Google search from back in May, it won't work. Some users will also get improved profile management, but it seems that the Irish Sea wing of Vulture Towers is not one of them."

Firefox 144 and Thunderbird 144 have been released. Thunderbird 144 is primarily a bug-fix update with 28 fixes and about a dozen security fixes and no new features. Firefox 144 introduces multiple changes including ongoing tab groups refinements such as keeping the current tab visible when collapsing a group and retaining collapsed state when dragging new tabs onto a group. The built-in password manager now uses stronger encryption. Picture-in-picture videos can be closed without pausing first. Computer-local automatic translation gains Azerbaijani, Bangla (Bengali), and Icelandic, plus improvements for 17 other languages. Some features are rolling out progressively, including Google Lens image search which requires Google as default search.

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