Firefox 101, 19 years of WordPress, Edge 102, Vivaldi 5.3, Angular 14, and more

This week brings even more browser updates. We got Firefox 101, Edge 102, and Vivaldi 5.3. The WordPress community celebrated 19 years of existence. And the releases of the week include Angular 14, Node v18.3, and more.

Firefox 101

Firefox 101 has been released on May 31st. Here are some of the notable features in this update:

• support for the prefers-contrast media query
• you can assign a custom action when the download is ready for any MIME types that are not already configured
• support for large (lv*), small (sv*), dynamic (dv*), and logical (*vi and *vb) viewport units
• support for multiple microphones when doing a web conference

For more details, you can explore the official release notes linked below.

• See what’s new in Firefox 101
• Firefox 101 for developers

19 years of WordPress

Last week WordPress launched version 6. This week they celebrated 19 years of existence. Check out how the community celebrated this milestone.

• Celebrate the 19th Anniversary Of WordPress

Browser news

Rachel Andrew published another roundup of the new web platform updates that landed in May. We got Chrome 102, Edge 102, Safari 15.5, Firefox 100, and Firefox 101 from the stable channels.

• New to the web platform in May

Still no release notes for Chrome 102 though. I wonder why.

Edge

The Microsoft Edge team pushed the 102 update. Once more I find their release notes extremely technical and not user-friendly.

• Release notes for Microsoft Edge Stable Channel

Vivaldi

Vivaldi released the 5.3 update, bringing the new Editable Toolbars. You can now also sync your search engine options between all your browser instances, no matter the platform: desktops, laptops, Android tablets and phones, or even cars.

• Vivaldi 5.3: Tweak and tune your browser with the new Editable Toolbars
• Vivaldi on Android: Get ready to rename your Two-level Tab Stacks, search languages in dropdown menu, sync search engines, and more

Software updates and releases

• Angular 14 - a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications
• Ava v4.3.0 - Node.js test runner
• Node v18.3.0 (Current) - asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime
• RE:DOM v3.28.0 - Tiny (2 KB) turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces
• Recoil 0.7.3 - Alternative state management for React from Facebook

Wrapping things up

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