Mozilla Firefox - News & Updates

[iDJ]

Firefox Preview is experimental, users are supposed to report bugs at
[email protected]

However, I am able to login normally, see credentials and upload/insert images.

What was the browser that was supposed to be some new mobile friendly browser from firefox? I can't seem to find it.

 

[Bapun]

How to test HTTP/3 and QUIC with Firefox Nightly

 

[Bapun]

Mozilla has started alerting users that they are making some changes to Firefox releases. Soon, there will only be Firefox, Firefox Beta, and Firefox Nightly. The Preview builds will be combined with Nightly, and the Preview Nighty builds will be discontinued entirely.

• Nightly <org.mozilla.fenix>
• Beta <org.mozilla.firefox_beta>
• Release <org.mozilla.firefox>

Firefox for Android ditches Preview builds to simplify releases

 

[Siva]

Stable release of next gen Firefox for Android aka Fenix is out.

Mozilla's next-gen Firefox hits stable after a year of previews, without full extension support (APK Download)

 

[Sumit05]

Firefox 79 is out for desktop.

 

[Bapun]

Source

 

[Siva]

The Nightly version of Firefox for Android supports pull-to-refresh. A gesture first popularized by Twitter back in 2010, it's quickly become as ubiquitous to phones as cars are to streets. Firefox was one of the few holdouts, with developers working out wonky behavior and interferences with some websites.

Firefox finally supports pull-to-refresh, now in the Nightly release

 

[Bapun]

Mozilla is pleased to introduce HTTPS-Only Mode, a brand-new security feature available in Firefox 83. When you enable HTTPS-Only Mode:

• Firefox attempts to establish fully secure connections to every website, and
• Firefox asks for your permission before connecting to a website that doesn’t support secure connections.

Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode – Mozilla Security Blog

 

[Siva]

When Firefox launched its next-gen Android browser last year, many were dismayed to see it lacked support for most extensions. Since then, the situation has improved a bit, and recently the browser has picked up compatibility with a number of officially sanctioned extensions. Now the next version of Firefox is set to make the mobile extension installation process even easier.

Starting next week, when Firefox 85 debuts on January 25, Firefox for Android users will be able to install supported extensions directly from adding.mozilla.org.

Installing Firefox extensions on mobile devices is about to become easier

 

[Siva]

Firefox 85 only brought one significant user-facing change — add-ons are now directly installable from addons.mozilla.org. But it turns out there is a lot more going on under the hood. The latest version of the Mozilla browser is cracking down on supercookies that evade regular anti-tracking techniques.

To achieve that, Firefox now partitions network connections and caches by each individual website visited. In the past, Firefox would share some resources across websites to reduce overhead, a practice virtually all browsers engage in.

Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies to prevent cross-site tracking