Firefox 133 for developers
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 133 that affect developers. Firefox 133 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on November 26, 2024.
Changes for web developers
Developer Tools
HTML
Removals
CSS
Removals
JavaScript
-
Support for
Uint8Array
methods to ease conversions between base64- and hex-encoded strings and byte arrays. (Firefox bug 1917885 and Firefox bug 1862220).The new methods include:
Uint8Array.fromBase64()
andUint8Array.fromHex()
static methods for constructing a newUint8Array
object from a base64- and hex-encoded string, respectively.Uint8Array.prototype.setFromBase64()
, andUint8Array.prototype.setFromHex()
instance methods for populating an existingUint8Array
object with bytes from a base64- or hex-encoded string.Uint8Array.prototype.toBase64()
andUint8Array.prototype.toHex()
instance methods, which return a base64- and hex- encoded string from the data in aUint8Array
object.
Removals
SVG
Removals
HTTP
Removals
Security
Removals
APIs
- The
WorkerNavigator.permissions
property is now supported, allowing the Permissions API to be used in workers as well as the main window thread. (Firefox bug 1193373). - The
EventSource
interface to handle server-sent events is now supported in service workers. (Firefox bug 1681218). - The
ImageDecoder
,ImageTrackList
, andImageTrack
interfaces of the WebCodecs API are now supported, enabling the decoding images from the main and worker threads. (Firefox bug 1923755).
DOM
Media, WebRTC, and Web Audio
Removals
WebAssembly
Removals
WebDriver conformance (WebDriver BiDi, Marionette)
General
WebDriver BiDi
Marionette
Changes for add-on developers
Removals
Other
Experimental web features
These features are newly shipped in Firefox 133 but are disabled by default. To experiment with them, search for the appropriate preference on the about:config
page and set it to true
. You can find more such features on the Experimental features page.
Older versions
- Firefox 132 for developers
- Firefox 131 for developers
- Firefox 130 for developers
- Firefox 129 for developers
- Firefox 128 for developers
- Firefox 127 for developers
- Firefox 126 for developers
- Firefox 125 for developers
- Firefox 124 for developers
- Firefox 123 for developers
- Firefox 122 for developers
- Firefox 121 for developers
- Firefox 120 for developers
- Firefox 119 for developers
- Firefox 118 for developers
- Firefox 117 for developers
- Firefox 116 for developers
- Firefox 115 for developers
- Firefox 114 for developers
- Firefox 113 for developers
- Firefox 112 for developers
- Firefox 111 for developers
- Firefox 110 for developers
- Firefox 109 for developers
- Firefox 108 for developers
- Firefox 107 for developers
- Firefox 106 for developers
- Firefox 105 for developers
- Firefox 104 for developers
- Firefox 103 for developers
- Firefox 102 for developers