Firefox 100 with picture-in-picture subtitles support appears

By admin On May 3, 2022

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Mozilla has released Firefox version 100.0. The update adds support for subtitles when using picture-in-picture. That works for YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video and websites that use the WebVTT format, such as Twitter.

If users enable subtitles in the video players on the respective websites, they will remain on when the picture-in-picture mode is enabled, Mozilla writes in the release notes. Picture-in-picture support was added to Firefox 71 at the end of 2019. This allows videos to be taken from a browser tab and brought to the foreground, so that other windows or tabs don’t block the view. Until now, displaying subtitles was not possible when using the function.

Firefox 100 also includes hardware acceleration for rendering videos with the AV1 codec. That works on Windows in combination with Intel 11th generation or newer GPUs, Nvidia RTX 30 GPUs and AMD RDNA 2 GPUs, with the exception of the Navi 24 GPU in the RX 6500 XT. Mozilla notes that the AV1 Video Extension from the Microsoft Store may need to be installed.

Furthermore, spell check in Firefox now also works with multiple languages at the same time. Users can add additional languages in the context menu of text entry fields on websites. The new version also supports HDR videos on macOS 11 and newer. For the time being, this concerns support for YouTube.