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Firefox Beta and Developer Edition
Release Notes

Release Notes tell you what's new in Firefox Beta. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.

161.0beta Firefox Beta

9 November 2026

Version 161.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on 9 November 2026

Firefox Beta gets updated 3 times a week and as a consequence, the release notes for the Beta channel are updated continuously to reflect features that have reached sufficient maturity to benefit from community feedback and bug reports.

Warning: Features listed here may or may not make a final release of Firefox

In addition to these release notes, you can follow ongoing development via the Firefox Trains website or our @FirefoxBeta Bluesky account.

New

  • You can now copy the current tab's URL with a keyboard shortcut. No shortcut is assigned by default, so you can choose your own key combination in Customize keyboard shortcuts in Firefox Settings. Learn more

Fixed

  • On Firefox for Android, fixed pages that request landscape orientation being saved as shrunken portrait pages when printing or saving to PDF.

  • Fixed the Windows taskbar staying visible over full-screen Firefox windows after switching back from another application.

  • Fixed Firefox hanging on macOS 26+ when opening Spotlight with a large number of bookmarks.

  • Fixed WebRTC video calls with some services sending low-resolution H.264 video since Firefox 158.

  • Fixed some tabs not being restored after a restart when the saved session referred to a tab group that no longer existed.

  • Fixed typing with an input method, such as for Japanese or Korean, stopping after the first character in Canva Docs.

  • Significantly improved rendering performance for backdrop-filter on certain Android devices.

Changed

  • On macOS, keyboard shortcuts assigned to Firefox menu items in System Settings now replace the built-in shortcuts for those items.

  • Browsing history imported from Chrome now includes how often you visited each page, so the sites you use most rank higher in address bar suggestions and shortcuts.

Developer

  • Fixed the Developer Tools eyedropper showing the wrong colors after the page is scrolled.

Web Platform

  • Firefox now supports the random() CSS function, which allows authors to introduce randomness into their styles, generating a random value in a given range (with an optional increment) that is usable anywhere that math functions can be specified. Learn more.

  • Firefox now supports nested arbitrary substitution functions in the primary parameters of var(), attr(), and env(); for example, var(attr(data-theme-prop type(<custom-ident>))) and env(var(--safe-area-block-start)).