Firefox 115 will be the last to support Windows 7, 8 and older macOS versions

Firefox’s has been reimagined in 2023 to be quick, fashionable and inviting the first time you run it and daily after. We’ve at all times had your again on privateness, and nonetheless do. We suppose the browser ought to be a bit of software program you possibly can depend on to have your again, nice to take a look at and working seamlessly with the internet.

Is Firefox a reliable browser?

Firefox is taken into account a safe and personal browser. By default, Firefox blocks identified third celebration trackers, social media trackers, cryptomining scripts and fingerprinters from accumulating your information.

Does Firefox use Google as a search engine?

Yes, Google pays hefty royalties to Mozilla/Firefox for making them the default search engine in Firefox. That deal is price round $400 million per yr (as of 2021-2022) and makes up the overwhelming majority of Mozilla’s whole income.

Is Firefox higher than Google Chrome?

Firefox and Chrome are up to date each few weeks, so it is onerous to evaluate them over time. At one level, Firefox has provided benefits over Chrome by way of RAM utilization, however that declare can return and forth relying on the revision (and the potential for regressions). Microsoft Edge and Apple’s Safari have additionally made such claims, however generally all browsers are regularly enhancing and beating one another.

Firefox does provide higher privateness and customizability (to an extent) and is a stable browser with numerous add-ons accessible. If you need the greatest customizability on a inventory browser, you must also try Vivaldi (Chromium primarily based).

Who owns Firefox?

Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Foundation, a US-based non-profit that operates and controls the Mozilla undertaking.

Is Firefox primarily based on Chromium?

No, Firefox will not be primarily based on Chromium. In truth, Firefox is one among the last main browsers that is not. Firefox runs by itself Quantum browser engine.

Features(*115*)

A smooth, clear Firefox design backed by analysis

Going into the Firefox redesign, our group studied how folks work together with the browser, observing their patterns and behaviors. We listened to suggestions and gathered concepts from common individuals who simply need to have a better expertise on the internet. We obsessed over distractions, additional clicks and wasted time. The ensuing new design is easy, fashionable and quick and delivers a wonderful expertise to support what folks do most in Firefox.

Streamlined toolbar and menus

The toolbar is of course the place you begin each internet go to. It’s the place the place you kind a URL to go someplace on-line. After internet web page content material, it is what you take a look at most in Firefox. The new toolbar is simplified and clutter-free so that you get to the great things effortlessly.

Menus are the place key Firefox actions and instructions reside. We’ve consolidated additional menus to scale back litter and be extra intuitive by way of the three bars menu in the higher proper or by right-clicking to activate it in your laptop display screen. The new look reorganized and streamlined our menus to put the greatest actions shortly at your fingertips.

When privateness protections are engaged in Firefox, the defend icon in the toolbar glows subtly indicating that we’re working behind the scenes to defend you from nosy trackers. Fun truth: Firefox has blocked greater than 6 trillion — that is trillion with a T — trackers since we rolled out enhanced monitoring safety, stopping 1000’s of firms from viewing your on-line exercise.. We’re speaking about monitoring cookies, social media trackers, fingerprinters, cryptominers and extra. Go forward and click on on the defend to see who and what Firefox is obstructing… you would possibly be shocked by what you discover out.

A brand new search for tabs

Based on our analysis, we came upon that greater than half of you will have 4+ tabs open all the time, and a few of you will have extra, much more. And we really feel that! Tab as a lot as you want, associates. Tabs acquired a makeover so they’re now gently curved and float above the toolbar. It’s an thrilling change that additionally serves as a reminder that tabs aren’t stationary. So seize these tabs, transfer them round and manage them as you want. Tabs additionally acquired a glow-up to be a contact brighter when energetic.

Shhhhhh… notifications

No one likes to be interrupted once they’re in the movement, however if you happen to should be alerted to one thing, not less than it may well look good. We’ve up to date notifications and alerts of all types in Firefox to take up much less area for much less jarring interruptions. Plus, non-essential alerts and messages have been eliminated altogether. Media autoplay is turned off by default, so you will not be interrupted by a random video blasting unexpectedly. Spotting a loud tab is straightforward, and unmuting/muting takes only a fast click on on the tab itself.

Expanded privateness protections

Mozilla makes it our mission to put your privateness and safety first in the expertise we develop. Our objective is for you to fear much less each time you go surfing. The newest Firefox launch comes to you with next-level safety and privateness that you’ve got come to anticipate from us.

The greatest personal searching mode on the market

All browsers have a non-public searching mode, however none match Firefox. The fashionable Total Cookie Protection strikes from the optionally available strict setting to always-on in personal searching. This characteristic maintains a separate “cookie jar” for every web site you go to whereas searching privately. Any time a website deposits a cookie, Firefox locks it up in its personal cookie jar in order that it may well’t be shared with some other web site.

An even higher Firefox for iOS and Android

The contemporary new look covers Firefox in every single place, from desktop browsers to Android and iOS cellular units. The iOS expertise is optimized for iPhone and iPad, with key actions now taking fewer steps for faster searches, navigation and tab viewing. With refinements in iconography and menu names, the complete searching expertise is extra cohesive and harmonious throughout each platform.

Shape Up Your Floats

CSS Shapes lets a floated factor sculpt the movement of content material round it past the traditional rectangular bounding field we have been constrained to. For occasion, in the above screenshot and linked demo, the textual content is wrapping to the form of the grapes vs the picture’s border. There are properties for primary shapes all the manner up to advanced polygons.

You can study extra in Josh Marinacci’s publish on the new CSS Shapes tooling from yesterday.

Variable Fonts Are Here

No punny title, I’m simply excited! OpenType Font Variations permit a single font file to include a number of cases of the similar font, encoding the variations between cases. In addition to being in a single file, font creators can expose any variety of variation axes that give builders fine-grained management on how a font is rendered. These can be commonplace variations like font weight (font weight 536 seems to be proper? no drawback!) or issues that have been by no means beforehand accessible by way of CSS (x-height! serif-size!). In addition to the candy-store prospects for typography nerds, having the ability to serve a single file with a number of variants is a significant web page weight financial savings. Dan Callahan goes a lot deeper on the grooviness to be discovered and how Firefox makes it straightforward to tweak these new customized values.

What’s New(*115*)

New

• Say hi there to enhanced Picture-in-Picture! Rewind, examine video period, and effortlessly swap to full-screen mode on the internet’s hottest video web sites.
• Firefox’s deal with bar is already an incredible place to seek for what you are searching for. Now you may at all times be ready to see your internet search phrases and refine them whereas viewing your search’s outcomes – no further scrolling wanted! Also, a brand new outcome menu has been added making it simpler to take away historical past outcomes and dismiss sponsored Firefox Suggest entries.

• Private home windows now defend customers even higher by blocking third-party cookies and storage of content material trackers.
• Passwords mechanically generated by Firefox now embody particular characters, giving customers safer passwords by default.
• Importing bookmarks from Safari or a Chrome-based browser? The favicons for these bookmarks will now additionally be imported by default to make them simpler to establish.
• Firefox 113 now helps AV1 Image Format recordsdata containing animations (AVIS), enhancing support for AVIF photos throughout the internet.
• The Windows GPU sandbox first shipped in the Firefox 110 launch has been tightened to improve the safety advantages it supplies.
• A 13-year-old characteristic request was fulfilled and Firefox now helps recordsdata being drag-and-dropped immediately from Microsoft Outlook. A particular thanks to volunteer contributor Marco Spiess for serving to to get this throughout the end line!
• Users on macOS can now entry the Services sub-menu immediately from Firefox context menus.
• On Windows, the elastic overscroll impact has been enabled by default. When two-finger scrolling on the touchpad or scrolling on the touchscreen, you will now see a bouncing animation when scrolling previous the fringe of a scroll container.
• Firefox is now accessible in the Tajik (tg) language.

Firefox 113 introduces a redesigned accessibility engine which considerably improves the pace, responsiveness, and stability of Firefox when used with:

• Screen readers, in addition to sure different accessibility software program;
• East Asian enter strategies;
• Enterprise single sign-on software program; and
• Other purposes which use accessibility frameworks to entry info.

Fixed

• Various safety fixes.

Changed

• The long-deprecated mozRTCPeerConnection, mozRTCIceCandidate, and mozRTCSessionDescription WebRTC interfaces have been eliminated. Sites ought to make the most of the non-prefixed versions as a substitute.

Previous launch notes

New

• Right-clicking on password fields now exhibits an possibility to reveal the password.
• Ubuntu Linux customers can now import their browser information from the Chromium Snap package deal. Currently, this will solely work if Firefox will not be additionally put in as a Snap package deal, however work is underway to deal with this!
• Do you employ the tab record panel in the tab bar? If so, now you can shut tabs by middle-clicking gadgets in that record.
• You’ve at all times been ready to un-close a tab through the use of (Cmd/Ctrl)-Shift-T. Now, that very same shortcut will restore the earlier session if there aren’t any extra closed tabs from the similar session to re-open.
• For all ETP Strict customers, we prolonged the record of identified monitoring parameters which might be faraway from URLs to additional defend our customers from cross-site monitoring.
• Enables overlay of software-decoded video on Intel GPUs in Windows. Improves video down scaling high quality and reduces GPU utilization.
• The deprecated U2F Javascript API is now disabled by default. The U2F protocol stays usable by way of the WebAuthn API. The U2F API can be re-enabled utilizing the safety.webauth.u2f choice.

Fixed

• Various safety fixes.

Changed

• The deprecated U2F Javascript API is now disabled by default. The U2F protocol stays usable by way of the WebAuthn API. The U2F API can be re-enabled utilizing the safety.webauth.u2f choice.

Web Platform

• Clear button, newly added to the date picker panel, permits customers to shortly clear the enter with kind date or datetime-local and supplies a well-recognized expertise throughout browsers.