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What’s new in Peppermint.

Every version, with the features, improvements and fixes that came with it.

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1.23.3b

LatestRelease

Janitor, Reader Mode and safer idle tabs

A new opt-in Janitor, a fresh Reader Mode and extra safety for idle tabs, notes and snippets.

New

  • Peppermint Janitor. An opt-in, launch-time cleaner for stale temporary files, usage traces, leftover update files and app caches, with its own settings tab and stacked toast notifications. Learn more.
  • Reader Mode. A redesigned reader view with a saved-articles page for reading later.

Improved

  • Idle tabs, notes and snippets are now protected from losing work when tabs are unloaded.
  • The default Accept-Language header now follows only the browser’s UI language.
  • Janitor toasts appear together, stacked in the toast container.
  • Updated the base to Firefox 158 and merged the latest upstream Zen changes.

Fixed

  • Opening a tab from a non-browser window no longer fails.

Early builds

Release

The foundations

Everything that shipped as Peppermint took shape on top of Zen, from the built-in ad blocker to MintNotes.

New

  • Built-in ad blocker with Light, Medium and Heavy levels, video and YouTube ad blocking and custom filters. Learn more.
  • Cookie-popup refusal that declines banners automatically and hides the stubborn ones. Learn more.
  • MintNotes at mint://note, a markdown notepad with slash commands, in-place renaming and encrypted saving. Learn more.
  • Temporary permissions so site access can expire on its own. Learn more.
  • URL snippets for opening any site from the address bar. Learn more.
  • Underpowered Mode to freeze background tabs and save power. Learn more.
  • Rich homepage with compact stat cards and a clock. Learn more.
  • Split view button on tab entries.

Improved

  • Peppermint now has its own profile, remoting name and bundle identifier, so it lives side by side with Firefox and Zen.
  • Frosted-glass look restored and unified across the URL bar and toasts, adapting to the page behind it.
  • Telemetry is fully hidden from Permissions & Data, and preferences are hardened by default.
  • Chrome motion stays on the compositor, tab layout is cheaper, ad-block compilation moved off the main thread and idle work was cut.
  • A more sensible default browser layout on Windows.