Mozilla has issued Firefox 137 with a few new user interface enhancements. Firefox finally catches up with Safari and Google Chrome by adding support for tab groups, which allow you to organize several tabs together in a named, color-coded group that you can close and re-open later. (The feature is being rolled out progressively, so you might not see it yet.) The Address Bar also now sports a new unified search button that enables you to switch between search engines and search modes (such as searching bookmarks or history) and a contextual search mode that detects if you are on a page that has search capability (though your mileage will vary—the feature picked up IMDb in our testing, but not Walmart or Temu).
Firefox 137’s contextual search mode with IMDB selected
The update also now turns all links in PDFs into hyperlinks and enables you to sign PDFs without leaving Firefox with a signature that can be saved for later reuse. (Free, 131.2 MB, release notes, macOS 10.15+)
Recently, and I think coincidentally with upgrading to Firefox 137, I can no longer option-click the zoom button (green button in the upper left of a window) to expand to full screen while keeping the menu bar, the tab bar, and other (including non-Firefox) windows visible. Any workaround?
Sorry - I managed to confuse myself. I agree that option-click and option-shift-click behave the same in Firefox 137, but I’m not sure if the behavior I’m seeing is what you are seeing. I’m running Sequoia 15.4.
Here is a Firefox 137 window with windows from other apps visible in the background:
For what it’s worth, that’s what I see too using Firefox 137.0.1 on Sequoia 15.3.2. In fact that’s the behavior I see in almost every application I tried, including Firefox, Chrome, Books, Music, Photos, Excel, Slack, a few others, except (of course) Safari, which only expands vertically, and BBEdit which inexplicably expands vertically and shrinks horizontally (it’s possible Safari and BBEdit have settings which affect that, I didn’t look).
Yes, I am. I used to see what you described, but it stopped doing that. I just quit and restarted Firefox and the problem continued. I suppose the next step is to restart the Mac.
Edit. I restarted the Mac; the problem continues. I created a new profile; the problem continues. Any other ideas?
Edit 2. In System Settings > Desktop & Dock, I changed “Double-click a window’s title bar to” from Fill to Zoom. I then double-clicked a Firefox window. It did what I wanted, filling the screen other than the menu bar. (I have the Dock hidden by default.) I then option-clicked the green Maximize button, and the window went back to the original size. I then option-clicked the green Maximize button, and the window filled the screen except for the menu bar. The problem seems to be solved as mysteriously as it began.
Firefox 137’s contextual search mode with IMDB selected
