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Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during January 2026.

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Published: January 30, 2026

Stable browser releases

Chrome 144 and Firefox 147 released to stable during January. This post takes a look at the many new features this month, with several things becoming Baseline Newly available.

CSS Anchor Positioning

Firefox 147 includes support for CSS Anchor Positioning, making this feature Baseline Newly available. This API lets you position elements relative to other elements, known as anchors. This is useful for tooltips, menus, and popovers, where you want an element to be positioned relative to another element on the page.

Browser Support

125

125

147

26 Source

The Navigation API

Also becoming Baseline Newly available with Firefox 147 is the Navigation API. This API provides a modern way to initiate, intercept, and manage navigations in your application.

Browser Support

102

102

147

26.2 Source

Find-in-page styling with ::search-text

Chrome 144 includes the ::search-text pseudo-element. This feature exposes find-in-page search result styling to authors as a highlight pseudo-element, similar to ::selection and ::spelling-error. This lets you customize the appearance of search results when a user uses the browser's find-in-page functionality.

Find out more on the Igalia blog in Find-in-Page Highlight styling.

Browser Support

144

144

x

x Source

The element

Chrome 144 introduces the element, a declarative, user-activated control for accessing the user's location. It streamlines the user and developer journey by handling the permission flow and directly providing location data to the site, often eliminating the need for a separate JavaScript API call.

Learn more in Introducing the HTML element.

Browser Support

144

144

x

x Source

The Temporal API

Chrome 144 includes the Temporal API. This provides standard objects and functions for working with dates and times. This is a significant addition to JavaScript, offering a robust and modern replacement for the Date object.

Browser Support

144

144

139

Source