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Here you'll find weekly Firefox browser news and headlines, as shared at Mozilla's Weekly Updates meeting.

2020 Firefox Roadmap/Updates Latest: 2020-08-31 September 14th August 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th June 1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th May 4th, 11th, 18th April 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th February 10th, 24th January 6th, 13th, 20th

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Firefox 78.0.1 is our current stable release. Firefox 78 was released last Tuesday and a search regression was quickly identifies and fixed with the dot release. This new release offers users new consolidated reports in the Protections Dashboard, a refresh button in the uninstaller, WebRender for more systems, and a slew of accessibility fixes. Also worth calling out that 78 is also our latest Extended Support Release (ESR.)

Firefox 79 is currently in the Beta channel. 79 will hit stable release on July 28th.

And that means that Nightly is now Firefox 80. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received just over 300 fixes including these notable ones. Support for the CSS prefers-contrast media-query has landed. The prefers-contrast CSS media feature is used to detect if the user has requested that the web content is presented with a higher (or lower) contrast. The HTML5 <dialog> element has been implemented. This element represents a dialog box or other interactive component, such as a dismissable alert, inspector, or subwindow. The tab loading indicator animations now respect the user's prefer reduced motion settings and instead of showing an animated circle, shows a static hourglass.



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Firefox 75.0 is our latest stable release.

Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel and makes it out to our stable release audience next week on May 5th. We're in RC week now.

Firefox 77 is in the Nightly channel and it will arrive for our stable release users on June 2nd. The soft code freeze is this Thursday. If you've got risky changes or want to pref on a new feature, please do so before Thursday. Over the last week there have been about 440 bugs resoved as Fixed including these notable ones: The Firefox address bar got a lot smarter. It now uses the Public Suffix List to show search results for lookups with a dot in them that are not actual domains. Putting something like foo.bar in the address bar will now search for the term rather than trying to load it as if it was a web address. This was fixed at bug 1080682. Also, entering an email address into the address bar will now perform a search rather than trying to load it as if it was a web login attempt. This was bug 1412985. Finally, entering a data:url with a space and a question mark now works as expected, loading it as a data:url rather than a search string. See bug 1613276 for details. We now have an enterprise policy for PDF handling that allows an enterprise manager to disable pdf.js in favor of a system PDF viewer. This was implemented at bug 792816. There is a new web technology based Firefox Installer. This should be easier to update and maintain than the old native stub installer. All the details at bug 1596812. Gecko now handles word boundaries properly on Southeast Asian languages without interword spaces. This makes selecting (and other text actions) easier for Thai, Khmer, Lao, and other languages. This was fixed at bug 425915. Gecko got support fro ARIA reflection at bug 1628418. This is part of the Accessibility Object Model which gives web authors the tools to make custom elements accessible. Last but not least, XUL Grids were all replaced in Firefox and support was removed from Gecko. This was bug 1520625.



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Firefox 74.0.1 is our latest stable release.

Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel as the final release candidate. 75 will ship to our stable release audience tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7th and users of this new version will enjoy the following improvements: a revamped Firefox Awesomebar that features your top sites when you focus it and that works much better on smaller screens. an easier way to install and use Firefox on Linux with Flatpak support. Direct Composition support for Windows gets us even better performance and closer to our goal of shipping WebRender . For web developers, we will now support the "loading" attribute which when set to "lazy" will allow for images to only load when they are within the viewport, speeding up page loading for uses and decreasing network bandwidth. Another great update for web developers is the new Instant evaluation for Console expressions. The feature lets developers identify and fix errors more rapidly than before. As long as expressions typed into the Web Console are side-effect free, their results will be previewed while you type.



Firefox 76 was in the Nightly channel until this morning when Nightly because Firefox 77. Over the last week Firefox 76 Nightly received about 430 changes including these notable ones: AudioWorklets for the WebAudio API have been enabled in Nightly. The vulnerable password alert feature is enabled by default on the latest Nightly builds as well.



2020-03-30

2020-03-23

Firefox 74.0 is our latest stable release. To avoid any extra work for sites during this time of corona virus, we've updated Firefox to no longer disable TLS 1.0.

Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience on Tuesday, April 7th. This the third and final week of betas for this cycle and next week is RC week.

Firefox 76 is in the Nightly channel. 76 is due to hit our stable release channel Tuesday May 5th. Over the last week there have been over 470 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable fixes. Firefox no longer supports allowing web developers to control toolbars (tabbar, menubar, toolbar, personalbar) in pop-up windows. (bug 1507375) WebRender is now enabled for Windows 10 Intel laptops with medium resolution screens. (bug 1622959) WebRender was previously enabled for Win10 Intel laptops with 1900x1200 or smaller resolution and now it's enabled also for 3440x1440 and smaller. Disabled form controls are now selectable. (bug 253870) 🎉🥳 16 year old bug fixed! 🥳🎉 There's a basic implementation of HTTPS-only mode behind the pref dom_security_https_only_mode. (bug 1620242) This mode upgrades all insecure requests to https:// when the pref is set. Firefox now supports CSS4 system colors. (bug 1590894) This is mostly an unprefixing of the existing implementation. The basic profiler has been enabled for Android. (bug 1557570) The Media Session API has been enabled on Nightly. (bug 1620077) This enables web developers to show customized media metadata on platform UI, customize available platform media controls, and access platform media keys such as hardware keys found on keyboards, headsets, remote controls, and software keys found in notification areas and on lock screens of mobile devices Firefox Nightly now uses the Dav1d 0.6.0 version which brings major improvements in 10/12bit decoding on ARMv8 CPUs, up to 2.5 times faster than 0.5.2. It also brings new AVX-512, AVX2 and SSSE3 optimizations and improves the existing optimizations on all platforms. Finally, it also fixes some decoder mismatches and minor crashes.



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Firefox 72.0.2 is our current stable release. This dot release shipped on Monday, January 20th and addressed several regressions.

Firefox 73 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release on February 11th.

Firefox 74 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week there have been about 350 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes: Gecko now has support for the beforeinput event. Firefox now has a configuration option to allow preventing tab tear off. The pref is "browser.tabs.allowTabDetach". about:debugging now has RTL support. input type="number" is now accessible to JAWS screen reader users.



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Firefox 67.0.4 is our current stable release.

Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and it ships to the stable release tomorrow, July 9th. Users of the released version of 68 will enjoy cryptomining and fingerprinting protection choices, the “enterprise roots” fix for anti-virus software breaking Firefox connections, WebRender for AMD users, a full page accessibility color contrast audit in Dev Tools, and WebAuthn support in Fennec. It's also worth noting that 68 is an ESR.

Today is Merge Day and the end of the Nightly soft code freeze as Nightly becomes Firefox 70. Over the last week, developers have fixed about 340 bugs in Nightly 69, including these notables: Firefox now has a what's new button and panel that can be used to let users know what's new in a Firefox update. Firefox now has a native customization window for the macOS Touchbar.



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Firefox 66.0.5 is our latest stable release.

Firefox 67 ships to the stable release tomorrow, May 21st. Firefox 67 brings some great features and fixes including these: Performance improvements including to start-up and pageload. Optional cryptominers and fingerprinter blocking. WebRender enabled for some Windows users. The FIDO U2F API including registrations for Google Accounts. New Pocket New Tab experience for some users. And for Android users, there's a new Firefox Search widget with voice input.

Today is merge day. Beta will see the continuation of Firefox 68 development and Nightly will see the beginning of Firefox 69 development. Today is also the end of the soft code freeze on Nightly and the floodgates are open for all 69 work. Over the last week there have been 445 bugs resolved as fixed including these fixes of note: Firefox Lockwise (formerly Lockbox) integration has begun. Still behind the about:config pref signon.management.page.enabled and the about page about:logins, the new HTML-based login manager page is starting to take shape. WebRender is enabled for more machines. Now we support Broadwell GT2+. The new about:addons, behind the about:config pref extensions.htmlaboutaddons.enabled, now has a release notes and a permissions section.



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2019-05-06

On Friday evening we started receiving feedback that extensions were failing for Firefox users and the Firefox team quickly identified that we had a certificate chain issue. We are extremely sorry to all Firefox users affected by this issue. The TL;DR is that one of the certificates used to authenticate add-ons expired, causing the signatures on all add-ons to break. The fix was to deploy a new certificate to Firefox users. A fix was developed Friday night and initially pushed out to desktop Firefox users through the Normandy infrastructure on Saturday. The fix was rolled out in a full QA'd dot release to both Desktop and Android users on Sunday. There are still some outstanding issues actively being worked on and a list of those unresolved issues can be found in the Firefox 66.0.4 release notes. We will providing a full post mortem on the incident as soon as possible and for now you can also learn more about it at blog dot mozilla dot org slash addons.

Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release a week from tomorrow on May 14th.

Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on July 9th. Over the last week there have been approximately 475 bugs resolved as fixed. There was one notable change this week: GetUserMedia now requires secure origins. This brings Firefox in line with Chrome and Safari. See the dev platform post for technical details.



2019-04-29

2019-04-22

Firefox 66.0.3 is our currently stable release.

Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on May 14th. Beta 13 and 14 go out this week. Our final betas go out next week.

Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to Stable on July 9th. Last week saw about 500 bug fixes land on Nightly including these notable changes: An early version of picture in picture mode for video has been enabled. On hover, videos now have a small button labeled "Picture-In-Picture" and when clicked, the video pops out to an always-on-top video docked on the lower corner of the screen. Firefox now pins its shortcut on the taskbar for Windows 10 users. Before we would put an icon on the Desktop and in the Start Menu. Now we also put an icon on the Taskbar. Dev Tools now has a full-page color contrast audit feature. This helps you quickly identify any contrast shortcomings, with badging and filtering of the accessibility tree. Simply click the contrast button in the Accessibility toolbar to run the audit. Don't miss These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 57 for an in-depth look at what's happening with Firefox development. These Weeks In Firefox offers details from across the Firefox development effort for the last couple of weeks.



2019-04-15

Firefox 66.0.3 is our currently stable release. It shipped last Wednesday and fixes several minor issues.

Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release users on May 14th. Beta 11 and 12 go out this week.

Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on July 9th. Over the last week there have been about 535 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes. Qualified Linux machines now get WebRender. These include Linux machines using Intel graphics with Mesa drivers being at least v18.2.8.0, excluding 4k displays. A significant portion of Nightly users are now seeing the new Quantumbar which should behave the same as the Awesomebar but lays the foundation for making improvements easier over time. Dev Tools got a button for toggling print styles. This makes debugging print output much simpler. Dev Tools console can now be filtered by regular expressions. Any text enclosed between forward slashes is considered as a regex search. Accessibility of PanelMultiView has been improved. Elements that are initially disabled and enabled later will be navigable. Also, the toolbar overflow menu with search will be properly navigable.



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Firefox 66.0.2 is our currently stable release. This second dot release shipped last Wednesday to fix a web compatibility issues with Office 365, iCloud and IBM WebMail caused by recent changes to the handling of keyboard events (Bug 1538966)

Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable release on May 14th. Beta 7 and 8 (of 16 planned) ship this week so we're coming up on the half way mark for this cycle. Over the last week we've uplifted about 60 fixes to the Beta channel including the new Accounts toolbar button.

Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th. Over the last week there have been 525 fixes landed on Nightly including these notable changes: We fixed a regression where Windows Preview per Tab was broken (and uplifted the fix to Beta.) (Device Pairing Phase 1) Desktop Auth was enabled for pairing the Reference Browser to Desktop using the QR code experience. (This has also been uplifted to Beta.) A 16 year old Gecko feature request, support for the ::marker pseudo-element on list items was resolved FIXED! the ::marker CSS pseudo-element selects the marker box of a list item, which typically contains a bullet or number. This allows list item markers to be styled or have their content value customized. Thanks, Mats Palmgren (:mats) for the new Gecko feature and Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio) for the code reviews!



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Firefox 63 is our current Stable release. It shipped last week and contains opt-in content blocking for all users and improved performance and energy efficiency on Mac.

Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable release on December 11th. We're in our 5th of 14 planned betas.

Firefox 65 is now the Nightly channel. Over the last week, we've resolved more than 460 bug reports in Nightly including these notable changes: We now support the Handoff web browsing activity type on macOS WebRender is working in GeckoView thought not enabled by default. We are now using the strict list for default cookie restrictions on Nightly and early Betas.



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Firefox 62.0.2 is our current Stable release.

Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. Over the last week we've taken approximately 60 fixes into the Beta.

Firefox 64 is our Nightly release and over the last week there have been nearly 500 bugs fixed including these notable ones: Support for auto-completing about: addresses in the Awesomebar. Anti-virus software is removing language packs rendering Firefox unusable. We fixed it by always checking langpacks for modification at startup.



2018-09-17

Firefox 62.0 is our current Stable release.

Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. There have been about 43 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.

Firefox 64 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 420 fixes including these notable ones: WebRender has been enabled for a subset of Nightly users on Windows 10 desktops with Nvidia GPUs. If you don't meet the criteria (only about 17% of Nightly users do right now) but you'd nevertheless like to try out WebRender on Nightly, you can flip the about:config pref gfx.webrender.all to true. This is an important milestone for a key performance feature on the Firefox Roadmap. Congratulations to the Servo and Gecko teams! If you want to learn more about WebRender (and browser engines in general) I highly recommend Lin Clark's The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank on the Mozilla Hacks Blog.



2018-09-10

2018-08-27

Firefox 61.0.2 is our current Stable release.

Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. There have been about 20 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.

Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and graduates to Stable release on October 23. In the last week there have been about 425 fixes including these notable ones: The Theme API has been extended to include browser sidebars. A 10 year old bug, float pushed down one line with white-space: nowrap; was fixed.



2018-08-20

Firefox 61.0.2 is our current Stable release.

Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. Beta 19 (of 20) goes out tomorrow. In the last week there have been about 30 bugs uplifted to Beta.

Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and graduates to Stable on October 23. In the last week there have been about 375 bugs fixed including these notable ones: Web Components are enabled. (Enable Shadow DOM and Enable Custom Elements) Enforce Symantec Distrust in Firefox 63 Last but not least, Top Sites Search Shortcuts, a collection of features to make searching easier, has landed.



2018-08-06

Firefox 61.0.1 is our current Stable release.

Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. Beta 15 goes out tomorrow. There are 20 betas scheduled for this cycle.

Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on October 23. Over the last week, there have been about 380 bugs fixed including: Firefox has a new Preferences/Options section for Content Blocking that includes Tracking Protection. You can find it in the Privacy and Security section of the Options/Preferences window. The 6th most voted for bug of all time, Support the "discarded" property inside browser.tabs.create() has been fixed.



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Firefox 60.0.2 is our current release.

Firefox 61 goes to release tomorrow and includes these notable improvements. Faster page rendering thanks to parallel CSS parsing and the new retained display list feature Faster tab switching thanks to tab warming on Windows and Linux You can now add new search engines from the Page Actions menu. On Mac you can now share the URL of an active tab from the Page Actions menu. TLS 1.3 is enabled by default. The Dark theme is darker in more places. Web Extensions can now hide tabs and control the order in which new tabs open.



2018-06-04

Firefox 60.0.1 is our current release.

Firefox 61 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on June 26th. We're in our 10th Beta with Beta 11 going out tomorrow. In the last week there have been about 40 bugs uplifted to Beta.

Firefox 62 is in our Nightly channel and goes to release on September 5. In the last week there have been about 360 bugs fixed including these notable changes: Users can now set the number of rows for all sections of the New Tab Page. (bug 1400536) Users can now toggle Tracking Protection from the Firefox menu. (bug 1462468) Shadow DOM support has landed in Nightly. (bug 1460069) Race Cache With Network (RCWN) is enabled on Android when cellular data isn't used. (bug 1377570)



2018-05-14

2018-05-07

Firefox 59.0.3 is our current release. The latest point release shipped last Monday for compatibility with the Windows 10 April 2018 update.

Firefox 60 is wrapping up in the Beta channel and releases this Wednesday. New to 60 are these features: Support for enterprise environments, with a policy engine that allows customized Firefox deployments using Windows Group Policy or a cross-platform JSON file. Several enhancements to New Tab/Firefox Home page A responsive layout that shows more content for users with wide-screen displays The Highlights section includes web pages saved to Pocket There are more options to reorder sections and content on the page Pocket Sponsored Stories will appear for a percentage of en-US users A faster browser UI thanks to Quantum CSS Support for the Web Authentication API, which allows USB tokens for website authentication TLS certificates issued by Symantec before June 1st, 2016 are no longer trusted by Firefox And, last but not least, Firefox for Android gets Quantum CSS for faster web page rendering.

Firefox 61 was in the Nightly channel under soft code freeze until this morning. It's now in the Beta channel. In the last week we've seen about 350 bugs fixes including these: We now show a doorhanger when an extension hides a tab for the first time Prevent data: URLs from being used for XSS Introduce UI for network throttling in the Dev Tools Net panel Added the remaining 'shape-margin' shape with support for polygon A fix for the blank windows on Mac with WebRender enabled Not riding the trains to Beta just yet, but we now have a English-Canadian nightly build.

And finally, the Nightly channel is now Firefox 62.

2018-04-30

Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.

Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and releases on May 9th. Our Release Candidate build happens tomorrow so we're basically wrapped up with Firefox 60. Over the last week, we've seen about 20 fixes uplifted to the Beta channel. A reminder, Firefox 60 is an ESR release. Finally, with Firefox 60 we're going to see Pocket sponsored stories coming to the new tab page. You can read all about that here

Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. mozilla-central is currently in a soft freeze until after the version bump to 62 on May 7th. Over the last week we've fixed about 480 bugs including these: When there is a hidden tab playing audio there we now have an audio indicator on the all tabs toolbar button. A 12 year old bug was fixed so Proxy autodiscovery now checks DHCP Firefox on Android can now use Chrome's fling physics for scrolling. with the apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.enabled pref set to true. We have much of CSS Shapes Level 1 with the fixes at bug 1353631, shape-outside and bug 1265342, shape-margin



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2018-04-16

Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.

Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on May 9th. This is an ESR release.

Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. In the last week we've seen about 460 bugs resolved, including these notable fixes: 18 year old bug bug 37468 was fixed implementing CSSStyleRule.selectorText setter The Gecko Profiler uses less RAM The Dev Tools Browser Console got a new front end The Dev Tools Font Editor got UI to manage font-variation-settings Web Components in Firefox made progress with implementing :host pseudo class Web developers will appreciate that we implemented the DOM Fetch API RequestDestination and Request.destination Web Assembly moved forward with the implementation of basic anyref support Highlights in New Tab Page are now sorted chronologically



2018-04-09

Firefox 59.0.2 is our current released version.

Firefox 60 is in Beta and is scheduled to hit release May 9th, a month from today. A reminder that Firefox 60 is our next ESR release so it's going to be supported for a while. In the last week Firefox 60 Beta has seen about 50 fixes including uplifts for the memory leak I mentioned last week and a couple of additional policies for the enterprise-facing policy engine.

Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and is due for release on June 26th. In the last week the Nightly channel has seen approximately 460 bugs fixed including a fix for a scroll painting regression. replacing our Emojione implementation with Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) and the addition of about a half a dozen more enterprise policies.

Mozilla and Firefox have been in the news a lot the last few weeks. Yesterday Mozilla and Firefox were on NBC's Sunday TODAY Show. Check it out. The segment features Mitchell Baker and Amy Tsay.

2018-04-02

Firefox 59.0.2 is our in-market release. It fixes a couple of significant issues: A fix for page rendering problems for Windows users with ClearType disabled, (Bug 1435472) A temporary fix for a Windows 7 touchscreen crasher, (bug 1424505) A security issue fixed. Use-after-free in compositor, (10th advisory of 2018)

Firefox 60 Beta 8 is the latest Beta with Beta 9 due tomorrow. A reminder: Firefox 60 is our next ESR. In the last week we've uplifted about 50 bugs.

Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week we've seen 475 bugs fixed including: You can now find and install available search engines from the Page Action menu (the ... button in your Awesomebar) We fixed a regression that caused the your browser to start in a smaller window before maximizing to expected size. We fixed a memory leak regression involving sites using Service Workers that could cause long pauses or freezes on popular sites. Users of Firefox's built in Dark theme now have a dark New Tab Page.

Off the trains, the Facebook Container extension, which isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity, has seen some dramatic uptake by users (200K downloads in first 3 days,) and garnered great reviews and press. We're working on updates expected soon.

2018-03-26

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Firefox 59 shipped last Tuesday. Firefox 59.01 shipped on Friday to fix a security bug that came out of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. We've got one significant regression in this release that causes rendering problems for people who have turned off ClearType font rendering on Windows. The workaround is to re-enable ClearType in Windows or to disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox. Top people are working on it.

Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel. Our 5th Beta is scheduled for tomorrow. In the last week, we've uplifted approximately 15 fixes.

Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week there have been approximately 475 fixes landed including these performance improvements: A performance improvement to tab switching by enabling tab warming. A performance improvement for file handling by getting rid of mimetypes.rdf A startup performance improvement by caching plugin and plugin blocklist information.



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