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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday, Mozilla today uploaded the Firefox 118.0 release binaries as the latest monthly update for this cross-platform web browser.
At least under Linux, Firefox 118 is showing some nice improvements over prior releases.
The Firefox automated translation support is done locally on user systems compared to cloud-based alternatives like Google Chrome relying on Google translation infrastructure.
The new CSS math functions supported in Firefox 118 include round, mod, rem, pow, sqrt, hypot, log, exp, abs, and sign.
The developer documentation also notes the HTML "search" element is now supported and outlines some of the other API changes.
Those interested in downloading Firefox 118.0 today can find it on the Mozilla.org server.
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