Firefox 98 for developers

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 98 that affect developers. Firefox 98 was released on March 8, 2022.

• The HTML <dialog> element is now available by default. This element and its associated DOM APIs provide support for HTML-based modal dialog boxes (bug 1733536).

• The hyphenate-character property sets a string that is used instead of a hyphen character (-) at the end of a hyphenation line break (bug 1751024).

No notable changes

• navigator.registerProtocolHandler() can now register protocol handlers for the ftp, sftp, and ftps schemes (bug 1705202).

DOM

• HTMLElement.outerText is now supported (bug 1709790).
• The properties colorSpaceConversion, resizeWidth and resizeHeight can be passed to the method createImageBitmap() using the options object (bug 1748868 and bug 1733559).

Removals

• The deprecated WebVR API is now disabled by default on all builds (previously it was enabled on Windows, macOS, and all nightly/dev builds). It can be re-enabled in about:config by setting dom.vr.enabled to true (bug 1750902).

• Improved initial page load checks for newly opened tabs (bug 1747359).

• Web extensions using webRequest were started early during Firefox startup. This has changed to only trigger early start-up for extensions using webRequest blocking calls. Non-blocking calls no longer cause the early startup of an extension. (bug 1749871)
• cookieStoreId added to userScripts.register. This enables extensions to register container-specific user scripts (bug 1738567).