Firefox 160 released today with some new features.
A new “Mini Window” option lets you move a tab or select a portion of a web page to an always-on-top window, so you can keep an eye on it while browsing. The feature is in beta and Mozilla invite feedback on it.
Mozilla say the feature is “useful when you’re multitasking and need to keep a few sources of information in view at once” – think Picture-in-Picture mode, but to see sections or entire web pages, basically.
Using it is easy. You can right click a tab, mouse into the Move Tab menu and choose Move to Mini Window to punt an entire page to a dedicated floating, resizable and compact window with address bar and navigation buttons that auto-hide.
Or customise the toolbar and add the Mini Window icon. Pressing this on a page gives you the choice of sharing the whole tab or just a portion.
You can also “PiP” part of a page using right-click > Move Section to Mini Window. This prompts you to draw out the section you want to pop out, and then do so.
Picture-in-Picture mode also gets a boost in this update. PiP windows now have a button to adjust playback speed, from 0.25x to 2.0x, depending on the source. The speed button only shows if the player window is large enough to have the button on show, though.
And if you regularly copy words to your clipboard with the intent to search, Firefox’s address bar context menu now reads “Paste and Search” for plain text, with “Paste and Go” reserved for URLs only.
Other changes in Firefox 160:
Drag history entries from the sidebar to the tab strip to open them Saving pages as PDF makes MathLab content screen-reader friendly Block websites from asking to handle mailto, etc links Matroska (MKV) support (with FLAC, MP3 or PCM audio) WebGL content on macOS now uses Metal graphics API Smart Window’s Organise Tabs is now available in French Real-time speech-to-text via SpeechRecognition Web Speech APIFixes improves visual contrast between domain name and the rest of the address bar, resolve minor text selection and cursor placement quirks using touch-input and nixes some small freezes affecting sign-in on intranet sites with NTLM or Kerberos.
Plus, as ever, a fresh crop of security fixes.
Get Firefox 160
Firefox 160 is free, open-source software. You can download the new release from the Mozilla FTP server or wait for the links to the same builds to appear on the Firefox website from 10 November, 2026.
Existing user? You’ll be updated to the latest version when running the app on Windows, macOS and Linux (binary builds), or via the app store or package repository you originally installed it from.
On Ubuntu? You’ll get an automatic, background update from the Snap Store.
Thats a cool feature. I can see myself using this a lot. Feels like Firefox is adding a lot of great features the past few years. Some stinkers but some are gold (container tabs, the side bar, modified top bar, inbuilt VPN, split screen)
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