Firefox 140 Beta: Custom search engines, tab unloading, and more new features

Mozilla has recently released Firefox 139, bringing with it custom wallpapers, link previews, and more, which you can read about on Neowin. Alongside the release of Firefox 139, we also got the release of Firefox 140 Beta with some accompanying release notes. One of the big features in this release is the ability to add custom search engines.

New features can be pretty subjective for users in terms of how much of an impact they have on the user’s experience. If you like using a smaller search engine, like Ecosia, then one major update you’ll like in Firefox 140 Beta is the ability to add custom search engines.

To add a custom search engine in this release, right-click a search field of a supported website and select Add Search Engine. Alternatively, you can go to Settings > Search > Add (below the search shortcuts table) to manually enter a search URL.

Another new item in this release is the ability to remove the Firefox Extensions button from your toolbar. When you hide the button, you can access the extensions panel again at any time from the Firefox menu by clicking the Extensions menu item.

Some less notable changes, but present in the release notes nonetheless are improvements to vertical tabs allowing you to keep more pinned tabs in view by dragging the divider to resize your pinned tabs section. There is also now a “Select All” option for bookmarks in Firefox for Android.

Finally, for users concerned about the resources being taken up by tabs, Firefox 140 Beta gives you the option to unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab and selecting “Unload Tab”. If any heavy tabs are slowing your computer down, you can use this feature to get your speed back.

If you want to try out Firefox 140 Beta now, just head over to this page on the Firefox website.

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