Waterfox 6.7.6 — Feed controls and browser fixes

New

Choose which feed features appear. Under Settings → Feeds, you can now hide Live Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu and turn off previews of directly opened feed URLs. These settings are independent of feed discovery. Turning previews off leaves the original feed document open.
Open feed articles in a new tab or window. The open article setting now includes Open the original article in a new tab and Open the original article in a new window, alongside the existing reader and open article options.
Close ordinary tabs with a double-click. A new option under Settings → Appearance → Tab bar enables double-click closing. Tree tabs continue to use their own double-click setting.

Switched to Noto Color Emoji with Unicode 18.0 support on platforms without native emoji support or where individual emoji characters are missing.
Compact density now reduces spacing in Waterfox’s custom menus.
The Web Share API is enabled only on Windows, where a native sharing picker is available. Websites on macOS and Linux can use their fallback sharing controls instead of offering a share action that fails.

Fixed a startup hang caused by DNS prefetching while Waterfox Ultra Protection was initializing.
Custom DNS-over-HTTPS provider URLs are now remembered when switching to another provider and back.
The fallback language selector now displays the language you explicitly selected instead of an automatically negotiated language.
The Manage Filter Lists dialog now fits shorter Settings windows and higher zoom levels, keeping Save Changes visible while the list scrolls.
The About Waterfox dialog now fills its window instead of leaving unused space when enlarged.

Compact density now fits more pinned tab icons across the expanded vertical sidebar.
Nova’s vertical tabs now respond to Compact density while retaining enough height for larger text.
Auto-hidden horizontal tabs now reclaim their layout space when revealed by hovering or keyboard focus.
Bookmarks in overlapping auto-hidden toolbars are now reachable instead of being covered by page content.
The focused address bar background no longer overlaps adjacent toolbars when the suggestions popup is closed.
Corrected Bengali text clipping in the address and search bars.
Pinned tab icons remain centered when tab content centering is enabled.
Tab numbers now follow the actual tab order, including tabs inside collapsed trees, and update when tabs are opened, moved or closed.
Corrected the placement of the selected tab indicator when it is configured below the tab.
Hover close buttons now work on crowded tabs inside groups, while respecting the option to hide close buttons.
The option to hide tab icons now also hides placeholder globe icons.
The square panel setting now applies to tab preview thumbnails.
Removed an unwanted rectangular seam from shaped tabs while preserving their curved outlines.
New Tab overrides supplied by extensions are no longer cleared when Waterfox’s custom New Tab URL is empty.

Switching to a third-party theme no longer clears its toolbar colors or requires a restart to display them correctly.
Waterfox palette and appearance choices now apply correctly when an older built-in Light or Dark theme is active.
Selected rows in popups now follow the active Waterfox palette’s accent color.
Dependent full color, dark and dialog styling now turns off when its parent color customization option is disabled.
Corrected an overly dark toolbar separator in the classic layout.
Corrected bookmark menu icon and text alignment, including Open All in Tabs on macOS.
Corrected overlapping icons and labels in custom Linux menus.
Restored checkbox and radio indicators in custom Windows and Linux menus, including the checked state of Work Offline.

Feeds with whitespace before their XML declaration now load correctly, including the Collabora feed.
Middle-clicking an RSS feed in the Bookmarks menu no longer opens duplicate tabs.
Hovering over an RSS feed in the Bookmarks menu now shows its name in a tooltip.
about:feeds now displays its favicon correctly.
Firefox bookmark imports now preserve tags and creation and modification dates.
Fixed Firefox profile discovery on Windows.
Chromium based browser imports, including Edge, now read passwords from the account password database as well as the local password database.
Multiple selected spellcheck dictionaries now remain selected across sites and browser restarts. Explicit per site language choices continue to take priority.
Improved saved login detection on username only sign in forms that advertise passkeys, including Tesco.
The weather widget can now be enabled from Waterfox Home settings.

Corrected Linux profile path handling to avoid creating an unwanted Waterfox folder in the home directory.
Linux default browser detection now recognizes launchers that point to Waterfox through a symbolic link.
Linux now looks for system spellcheck dictionaries in /usr/share/hunspell.
Restored support for older Windows Group Policy settings under Mozilla\Waterfox, while current BrowserWorks\Waterfox settings retain priority.

On macOS, opening an external link while Waterfox is closed can leave a blank tab when session restoration is enabled.
YouTube playback and seeking problems remain under investigation.
Reports of Linux crashes and DNS failures after suspend, and reports of profile or session state being lost, remain under investigation.