Mozilla Firefox Release Schedule

Aug 16, 2012

Updated • Sep 13, 2023

Added release schedule for the year 2022.

The Firefox Release Schedule overview offers information about past, present and future releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

With three different versions of the Firefox web browser available at any time (Stable, Beta, Nightly), plus special builds that pop up every now and then and ESR versions, it is quite difficult to keep up with the browser's rapid release schedule.

To make matters even more complicated, some versions like the nightly versions get updated fairly often. To bring order into chaos, release schedules usually only concentrate on version increases and not all the updates that get released.

Mozilla's official Release Schedule page lists only the next version upgrade for Firefox stable, beta, aurora and nightly, but does not go beyond that. (Update: That changed with the introduction of the Rapid Release Calendar)

While you can try to calculate the releases after the next by adding 42 days to a fixed release date, actual release dates may fluctuate especially for the beta and aurora version increases.

Update 2 (2019): Firefox will be released every four weeks from 2020 onward.

Update (2016): Mozilla announced the move to a variable Firefox release schedule recently.

Firefox Release Schedule

mozilla firefox release schedule

The table currently covers all upcoming releases for the year, and even provides an outlook of the first releases of next year.

Mozilla Firefox Release Schedule

Our Firefox release schedule lists all Firefox versions, meaning Firefox Stable, Beta, Nightly, and ESR, the version they are updated to, and the date this is going to happen.

It won't reference minor version updates as those are not scheduled usually but pushed out when required.

Firefox 117, Beta 118, Nightly 119, Firefox ESR 102.15, Firefox ESR 115.2 -- 29.08.2023
Firefox 118, Beta 119, Nightly 120, Firefox ESR 115.3 -- 26.09.2023
Firefox 119, Beta 120, Nightly 121, Firefox ESR 115.4 -- 24.10.2023
Firefox 120, Beta 121, Nightly 122, Firefox ESR 115.5 -- 21.11.2023
Firefox 121, Beta 122, Nightly 123, Firefox ESR 115.6 -- 19.12.2023
Firefox 122, Beta 123, Nightly 124, Firefox ESR 115.7 -- 23.01.2024
Firefox 123, Beta 124, Nightly 125, Firefox ESR 115.8 -- 20.02.2024
Firefox 124, Beta 125, Nightly 126, Firefox ESR 115.9 -- 19.03.2024
Firefox 125, Beta 126, Nightly 127, Firefox ESR 115.10 -- 16.04.2024
Firefox 126, Beta 127, Nightly 128, Firefox ESR 115.11 -- 14.05.2024
Firefox 127, Beta 128, Nightly 129, Firefox ESR 115.12 -- 11.06.2024
Firefox 128, Beta 129, Nightly 130, Firefox ESR 115.13, Firefox ESR 128.0 -- 09.07.2024
Firefox 129. Beta 130, Nightly 131, Firefox ESR 115.14, Firefox ESR 128.1 -- 06.08.2024
Firefox 130, Beta 131, Nightly 132, Firefox ESR 115.15, Firefox ESR 128.2 -- 03.09.2024
Firefox 131, Beta 132, Nightly 133, Firefox ESR 128.3 -- 01.10.2024
Firefox 132, Beta 133, Nightly 134, Firefox ESR 128.4 -- 29.10.2024
Firefox 133, Beta 134, Nightly 135, Firefox ESR 128.5 -- 26.11.2024
Firefox 134, Beta 135, Nightly 136, Firefox ESR 128.6 -- 07.01.2025
Firefox 135, Beta 136, Nightly 137, Firefox ESR 128.7 -- 04.02.2025

Past Firefox Releases

This is the list of past releases for Firefox. While it is not recommended to run any of those versions anymore, it may be used for reference.

Firefox 15, Beta 16, Aurora 17 - 28.8.2012
Firefox 16, Beta 17, Aurora 18 - 9.10.2012
Firefox 17, Beta 18, Aurora 19 - 20.11.2012
Firefox 18, Beta 19, Aurora 20 - 8.1.2013
Firefox 19, Beta 20, Aurora 21 - 19.2.2013
Firefox 20, Beta 21, Aurora 22 - 2.4.2013
Firefox 21, Beta 22, Aurora 23 - 14.5.2013
Firefox 22, Beta 23, Aurora 24 - 25.6.2013
Firefox 23, Beta 24, Aurora 25 - 27.6.2013
Firefox 24, Beta 25, Aurora 26, Firefox 24.0 ESR - 17.9.2013
Firefox 25, Beta 26, Aurora 27, Firefox 24.1 ESR - 29.10.2013
Firefox 26, Beta 27, Aurora 28, Firefox 24.2 ESR - 10.12.2013
Firefox 27, Beta 28, Aurora 29, Firefox 24.3 ESR - 21.1.2014
Firefox 28, Beta 29, Aurora 30, Nightly 31,Â Firefox 24.4 ESR - 4.3.2014
Firefox 29, Beta 30, Aurora 31, Nightly 32, Firefox 24.5 ESR - 29.4.2014
Firefox 30, Beta 31, Aurora 32, Nightly 33, Firefox 24.6 ESR - 10.6.2014
Firefox 31, Beta 32, Aurora 33, Nightly 34 Firefox 31.0 ESR - 22.7.2014
Firefox 32, Beta 33, Aurora 34, Nightly 35, Firefox 31.1 ESR -2.9.2014
Firefox 33, Beta 34, Aurora 35, Nightly 36, Firefox 31.2 ESR - 14.10.2014
Firefox 34, Beta 35,Â Aurora 36, Nightly 37, Firefox 31.3 ESR - 25.11.2014
Firefox 35, Beta 36, Aurora 37, Nightly 38, Firefox 31.4 ESR - 13.1.2015
Firefox 36, Beta 37, Aurora 38, Nightly 39, Firefox 31.5 ESR - 24.02.2015
Firefox 37, Beta 38, Aurora 39, Nightly 40, Firefox 31.6 ESR - 7.4.2015
Firefox 38, Beta 39, Aurora 40, Nightly 41,Â Firefox 38.0 ESR - 19.5.2015
Firefox 39, Beta 40, Aurora 41, Nightly 42, Firefox 38.1 ESR - 30.6.2015
Firefox 40, Beta 41, Aurora 42, Nightly 43,Â Firefox 38.2 ESR - 11.8.2015
Firefox 41, Beta 42, Aurora 43, Nightly 44, Firefox 38.3 ESR - 22.9.2015
Firefox 42, Beta 43, Aurora 44, Nightly 45, Firefox 38.4 ESR - 3.11.2015
Firefox 43, Beta 44, Aurora 45, Nightly 46, Firefox 38.5 ESR - 15.12.2015
Firefox 44, Beta 45, Aurora 46, Nightly 47, Firefox 38.6 ESR - 26.1.2016
Firefox 45, Beta 46, Aurora 47, Nightly 48, Firefox 45.0 ESR - 8.3.2016
Firefox 46, Beta 47, Aurora 48, Nightly 49, Firefox 45.1 ESR - 26.4.2016
Firefox 47, Beta 48, Aurora 49, Nightly 50, Firefox 45.2 ESR - 7.6.2016
Firefox 48, Beta 49, Aurora 50, Nightly 51, Firefox 45.3 ESR - 2.8.2016
Firefox 49, Beta 50, Aurora 51, Nightly 52, Firefox 45.4 ESR - 20.9.2016
Firefox 50, Beta 51, Aurora 52, Nightly 53, Firefox 45.5 ESR - 15.11.2016
Firefox 50.0.1, Firefox ESR 45.5.1 - 13.12.2016
Firefox 51, Beta 52, Aurora 53, Nightly 54, Firefox 45.6 ESR - 24.1.2017
Firefox 52, Beta 53, Aurora 54, Nightly 55, Firefox 45.7 ESR (start of Firefox 52.0 ESR) - 7.3.2017
Firefox 53, Beta 54, Aurora 55, Nightly 56, Firefox 45.8 ESR (Firefox 52.1 ESR) - 18.4.2017
Firefox 54, Beta 55, Nightly 57, Firefox ESR 52.2 - 13.6.2017
Firefox 55, Beta 56, Nightly 58, Firefox ESR 52.3 - 8.8.2017
Firefox 56, Beta 57, Nightly 59, Firefox ESR 52.4 - 28.9.2017
Firefox 57, Beta 58, Nightly 60, Firefox ESR 52.5 - 14.11.2017
Firefox 58, Beta 59, Nightly 61, Firefox ESR 52.6 - 23.1.2018
Firefox 59, Beta 60, Nightly 62, Firefox ESR 52.7 - 13.3.2018
Firefox 60, Beta 61, Nightly 62. Firefox ESR 60.0, Firefox ESR 52.8 - 9.5.2018
Firefox 61, Beta 62, Nightly 63, Firefox ESRÂ 60.1, Firefox ESR 52.9 - 26.6.2018
Firefox 62, Beta 63, Nightly 64, Firefox ESRÂ 60.2 - 5.9.2018
Firefox 63, Beta 64, Nightly 65, Firefox ESRÂ 60.3 - 23.10.2018
Firefox 64, Beta 65, Nightly 66, Firefox ESR 60.4- 11.12.2018
Firefox 65, Beta 66, Nightly 67, Firefox ESR 60.5 -- 29.1.2019
Firefox 66, Beta 67, Nightly 68, Firefox ESR 60.6 -- 19.3.2019
Firefox 67, Beta 68, Nightly 69, Firefox ESR 60.7 -- 21.5.2019
Firefox 68, Beta 69, Nightly 70, Firefox ESR 68.0, Firefox ESR 60.8 -- 9.7.2019
Firefox 69, Beta 70, Nightly 71, Firefox ESR 68.1, Firefox ESR 60.9-- 3.9.2019
Firefox 70, Beta 71, Nightly 72, Firefox ESR 68.2 -- 22.10.2019
Firefox 71, Beta 72, Nightly 73, Firefox ESR 68.3 -- 03.12.2019
Firefox 72, Beta 73, Nightly 74, Firefox ESR 68.4 --7.01.2020
Firefox 73, Beta 74, Nightly 75, Firefox ESR 68.5 -- 11.02.2020
Firefox 74, Beta 75, Nightly 76, Firefox ESR 68.6 -- 10.03.2020
Firefox 75, Beta 76, Nightly 77, Firefox ESR 68.7 -- 07.04.2020
Firefox 76, Beta 77, Nightly 78, Firefox ESR 68.8 -- 05.05.2020
Firefox 77, Beta 78, Nightly 79, Firefox ESR 68.9 -- 02.06.2020
Firefox 78, Beta 79, Nightly 80, Firefox ESR 68.10 and 78.0 -- 30.06.2020
Firefox 79, Beta 80, Nightly 81, Firefox ESR 68.11 and 78.1 -- 28.07.2020
Firefox 80, Beta 81, Nightly 82, Firefox ESR 68.12 and 78.2 -- 25.08.2020
Firefox 81, Beta 82, Nightly 83, Firefox ESR 78.3 -- 22.09.2020
Firefox 82, Beta 83, Nightly 84, Firefox ESR 78.4 -- 20.10.2020
Firefox 83, Beta 84, Nightly 85, Firefox ESR 78.5 -- 17.11.2020
Firefox 84, Beta 85, Nightly 86, Firefox ESR 78.6 -- 15.12.2020
Firefox 85, Beta 86, Nightly 87, Firefox ESR 78.7 -- 26.01.2021
Firefox 86, Beta 87, Nightly 88, Firefox ESR 78.8 -- 23.02.2021
Firefox 87, Beta 88, Nightly 89, Firefox ESR 78.9 -- 23.03.2021
Firefox 88, Beta 89, Nightly 90, Firefox ESR 78.10 -- 20.04.2021
Firefox 89, Beta 90, Nightly 91, Firefox ESR 78.11 -- 1.06.2021
Firefox 90, Beta 91, Nightly 92, Firefox ESR 78.12 -- 13.07.2021
Firefox 91, Beta 92, Nightly 93, Firefox ESR 91.0 and Firefox ESR 78.13 -- 10.08.2021
Firefox 92, Beta 93, Nightly 94, Firefox ESR 91.1 and Firefox ESR 78.14 -- 7.09.2021
Firefox 93, Beta 94, Nightly 95, Firefox ESR 91.2 and Firefox ESR 78.15 -- 5.10.2021
Firefox 94, Beta 95, Nightly 96, Firefox ESR 91.3 -- 2.11.2021
Firefox 95, Beta 96, Nightly 97, Firefox ESR 91.4 -- 7.12.2021
Firefox 96, Beta 97, Nightly 98, Firefox ESR 91.5 -- 11.01.2022
Firefox 97, Beta 98, Nightly 99, Firefox ESR 91.6 -- 8.2.2022
Firefox 98, Beta 99, Nightly 100, Firefox ESR 91.7 -- 8.3.2022
Firefox 99, Beta 100, Nightly 101, Firefox ESR 91.8 -- 5.4.2022
Firefox 100, Beta 101, Nightly 102, Firefox ESR 91.9 -- 3.5.2022
Firefox 101 Beta 102, Nightly 103, Firefox ESR 91.10 -- 31.5.2022
Firefox 102 Beta 103, Nightly 104, Firefox ESR 91.11 and Firefox ESR 102.0 -- 28.6.2022
Firefox 103 Beta 104, Nightly 105, Firefox ESR 91.12 and Firefox ESR 102.1 -- 26.7.2022
Firefox 104 Beta 105, Nightly 106, Firefox ESR 91.13 and Firefox ESR 102.2 -- 23.8.2022
Firefox 105 Beta 106, Nightly 107, Firefox ESR 102.3 -- 20.9.2022
Firefox 106 Beta 107, Nightly 108, Firefox ESR 102.4 -- 17.10.2022
Firefox 107 Beta 108, Nightly 109, Firefox ESR 102.5 -- 15.11.2022
Firefox 108 Beta 109, Nightly 110, Firefox ESR 102.6 -- 13.12.2022
Firefox 109 Beta 110, Nightly 111, Firefox ESR 102.7 -- 17.01.2023
Firefox 110 Beta 111, Nightly 112, Firefox ESR 102.8 -- 14.02.2023
Firefox 111 Beta 112, Nightly 113, Firefox ESR 102.9 -- 14.3.2023
Firefox 112 Beta 113, Nightly 114, Firefox ESR 102.10 -- 11.04.2023
Firefox 113 Beta 114, Nightly 115, Firefox ESR 102.11 -- 09.05.2023
Firefox 114 Beta 115, Nightly 116, Firefox ESR 102.12 -- 06.06.2023
Firefox 115 Beta 116, Nightly 117, Firefox ESR 102.13, Firefox ESR 115.0 -- 04.07.2023
Firefox 116 Beta 117, Nightly 118, Firefox ESR 102.14, Firefox ESR 115.1 -- 01.08.2023

The release schedule for Firefox is regularly updated by us so that you will always know when future versions and editions of Firefox are released by Mozilla.

Since Mozilla moved from a 42 release cycle to a flexible scheme, it becomes even more important to keep an eye on these releases.

Summary

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Mozilla Firefox Release Schedule

Description

Find out when new versions of the Firefox web browser get released. Track releases for all browser channels - Stable, Beta, Aurora and Nightly -- as well as ESR releases.

Author

Melanie Gross

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Ghacks Technology News

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Comments

Jonas said on September 27, 2019 at 7:31 pm


Since I’ve rarely wanted to transfer more than one tab between browsers, I’m not inclined to install another extension just for that — especially one that (according to your description) closed all my tabs in the process. In the past I’ve just copied and pasted the URL, but (even for just one tab) that is a little tedious.

I just tried an interesting little experiment, with a useful result. (I did this on my Mac, but I’m guessing it would work on other platforms too.) I’m reading this article in Firefox, so I opened a new blank window in Chrome. At the top of both browser windows, at the far-left end of the URL bar, there’s a little icon of the letter “i” in a circle. (If you hover over it in Firefox, it says “Show site information”; in Chrome, hovering it says “View site information” — that’s the icon I’m talking about.)

I simply dragged the Firefox “i” icon from the top of this page, into the Chrome window — and this page loaded in Chrome! It worked! Then I tried something just a bit trickier, in the other direction — I first (from a bookmark) loaded into Chrome a page from my local web-development server (i.e. not online)… then dragged the “i” icon from the Chrome toolbar into this Firefox window — and it worked then too!

So, although I have no interest in the OneTab extension, I just learned something useful! I hope other people find this trick useful too. (Later I’ll try it in Safari — maybe it works in every browser?)
1. Martin Brinkmann said on September 28, 2019 at 8:03 am
  
  
  Interresting find Jonas, thanks for sharing!
  1. John G. said on August 27, 2023 at 8:13 pm
    
    
    Your comment doesn’t appear to be one of the real @Martin, because there is no black label rounding the entire title of the comment as before. :S
kero said on January 30, 2020 at 10:08 am


I also used onetab already and didn’t even know they had this feature. Thanks so much.
Legion said on February 17, 2021 at 2:53 pm


Exporting tabs to FF: “The address wasn’t understood. Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (chrome-extension) isn’t associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.”

Useless.
DMoRiaM said on August 17, 2023 at 2:52 pm


And the most important information was left out of the article or it don’t even exist in the first place: how to completely disable such functionality.
1. Tom said on August 23, 2023 at 8:59 am
  
  
  Your comment doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s an explicit user action to import data from other add-ons. If you don’t want it you just don’t do it.
  1. Christoph said on August 25, 2023 at 9:14 am
    
    
    This comment actually does make a lot of sense, and I am actually searching for this. Some people do NOT want websites to be (badly) translated, so they never use such a feature. The things is, every time I visit a non-english website this annoying menu pops up, and the button is another element in the URL bar cluster of useless unused features. I do not want to add all languages to a “do not translate” list, instead I want a “hide button” or “disable translations completely” setting.
  2. Christoph said on August 25, 2023 at 9:24 am
    
    
    This comment actually does make a lot of sense, and I am currently searching for this. Some people do NOT want websites to be (badly) translated, so they never use such a feature. The things is, every time I visit a non-english website this annoying menu pops up, and the button is another element in the URL bar cluster of useless unused features. I do not want to add all languages to a “do not translate” list, instead I want a “hide button” or “disable translations completely” setting.
  3. Christoph said on August 25, 2023 at 9:32 am
    
    
    my bad. somehow my, and I think DMoRiaM’s comment got mixed into the wrong article. Haha.
2. Christoph said on August 25, 2023 at 9:34 am
  
  
  go to about:config and set browser.translations.automaticallyPopup to false.
Sean said on August 17, 2023 at 11:34 pm


Does this hack still work on FF 107 or whatever is most current?
1. Addlibs said on August 19, 2023 at 9:27 pm
  
  
  Firefox 118 seems to be officially rolling this out by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
  1. zed said on August 20, 2023 at 11:08 am
    
    
    Hoping Mozilla won’t remove the option altogether in the future as they already did for other, ahem, unwanted features… Why don’t they listen to their users instead?
  2. owl said on August 21, 2023 at 4:13 am
    
    
    @zed,
    
    your reply seems to be Addlibs (according to your RSS reader),
    Addlibs did not intend to comment on this article “OneTab browser extension”, but regarding Firefox’s new built-in fullpage translation “Firefox Translation”.
    Firefox Fullpage Translation
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation
dmacleo said on August 20, 2023 at 5:22 pm


what the heck is going on with comments on this site lately?
first comment on THIS article was 9-2019.
1. John Wold said on August 21, 2023 at 2:50 am
  
  
  Looks like the comments database is corrupted.
  
  Besides old comments appearing in new articles, the same comment appears in multiple articles.
  
  Also I answered a comment in one article, and the same answer appeared as an answer to a different comment by the same person.
owl said on August 21, 2023 at 4:16 am


@Martin Brinkmann,

Anyway, please deal with this anomaly ASAP.
Comments are a mess, irrelevant and chaotic.
If there is no prospect, Ghacks Technology News should be put on hiatus until the system is fixed.
1. Frankel said on August 21, 2023 at 11:46 am
  
  
  It’s the same as before with endless monologues or people telling others why they are wrong.
  1. Guest said on August 23, 2023 at 3:55 pm
    
    
    Actually, Frankel, it’s you who’s wrong
martins Lutes said on August 22, 2023 at 4:39 pm


This is all techo-BS. What people want is far simpler: a hotkey toggle: images on/images off. Is that really so complex? Seems so. It’s like autoplay videos on/off. In that case you can set it to off but it doesn’t stick. Typical digiocy.
Mystique said on August 23, 2023 at 11:11 am


This isn’t great but it might help people that have moved from chrome to firefox to some extent. I can’t tell you the amount of time I have seen people complain that a certain extension they use on google is not available and the only thing holding them back from moving over when they are actually wrong and the very same developer has a Firefox version also. I would always encourage manually looking as there are always hidden gems.

In regards to the website I have reached out to Martin personally and to his credit he replied very quickly. He has informed me that they are aware of the problems and are attempting to fix it.

Martin is no longer involved in the technical management of the site so I imagine if we want to ask someone then our comments would perhaps be better directed towards Softonic.
John G. said on August 23, 2023 at 11:39 am


I don’t understand what is happening here with the comments. The counter shows zero comments and then inside there are some comments from older dates even since years. And mostly of them are non related by the way with the article. So sad what’s going on and nobody is still fixing it. :S
1. Herman Cost said on August 23, 2023 at 5:35 pm
  
  
  This site now appears to be mostly be created and run by AI. On the positive side (if there is one), I guess we can assume at some point the AI will be capable of recognizing and fixing corrupted files and the like.
Andy Prough said on August 23, 2023 at 6:05 pm


“Import Chrome extensions” …. (by installing comparable Firefox extensions) … (for a small number of extensions).”

What a bunch of bogus PR spin. Someone who liked uBlock Origin on Chrome could already install it just fine on Firefox with a couple of mouse clicks. This just adds extra unnecessarily complicated steps to something that was already dead simple, all in order for Mozilla to claim fake one-to-one compatability that doesn’t actually exist.
Ray said on August 23, 2023 at 9:57 pm


It would be interesting if Firefox could install Chrome Addons directly from the Chrome Web Store. Although there would probably be some incompatibility, perhaps there’s a shim to translate some Chrome-specific WebExtension APIs over to Firefox. Microsoft Edge can install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store, but Edge is using the same Blink web engine as Chrome so that makes things easy.

Don’t really care about importing as I never use that feature.
Rex said on August 24, 2023 at 11:50 am


Just retire Gecko and join the Blink bandwagon already, Mozilla. Then you can guarantee 100% Chrome extension compatibility! /s
Not like your browser is getting much attention let alone budget compared to your other woke social justice initiatives.
Anja said on August 24, 2023 at 2:36 pm


Hello,

does anyone know if the STG has issues with the sidebar at the moment? I just added it and can not find any option to use it in the sidebar. I am also using an add-on for tree style tab…this might be the source of the problem?

Greetings, Anja
Pete willams said on August 25, 2023 at 1:41 am


tried typing- about:config -in the search bar -( I want to enable javascript) but it simply will NOT open!
Anonymous said on August 27, 2023 at 4:51 pm


I tried Firefox Translate, but it doesn’t do Chinese or Japanese, and that’s a deal-breaker for me. I uninstalled it and am sticking with the Google Translate extension.
ECJ said on August 27, 2023 at 7:07 pm


“…Vivaldi and Brave use self-hosted solutions, which still require connections, but offer better privacy than an integration of Google Translate or other third-party translation services would offer.”

While I like Brave as a browser, their translation “solution” just plain sucks. I’d rather have the data sent to Google or Bing, than have a translate feature that just doesn’t work properly. Not only is it not possible to select just a section of text to translate, but to make it worst, most of the time translating the whole page in Brave is either really unbearably slow, or more often than not, it just won’t translate the page at all and displays a “This page couldn’t be translated” error. It’s pretty pointless if their users need to keep using something else to translate pages and have to give up their privacy anyway.

The native translate feature in Firefox sounds like a much better solution than what Brave use.
Merlin said on August 27, 2023 at 8:05 pm


Great news, thanx FF devs! Hopefully, more languages will be available in the future. So happy!
TelV said on August 28, 2023 at 1:18 pm


Floorp comes with its own built-in translator. It’s been like that ever since the first release in fact.
https://floorp.app/download
Mystique said on August 29, 2023 at 1:39 pm


Article title: Firefox 117: native language translations, last Firefox 102 update and security fixes
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/29/firefox-117-native-language-translations-last-firefox-102-update-and-security-fixes/

I think for now every time I comment on an article I am going to put the title of the article and/or the URL of said article because I am seeing my own comments which are from another Firefox related article but not exactly this one.

In regards to this website Martin does not have administrative access to the back end of the website. It would fall on softonic international to fix it now which seems to be of very low priority.

This might be the straw that broke the camels back for ghacks which is a shame because it had many good comments and articles that go way back. Moving away from it would suck.

Maybe try contacting them here to see if you can get any action.
https://hello.softonic.com/contact/
Quinton Blakely said on August 30, 2023 at 3:31 pm


Can you help me please.
Brian said on September 1, 2023 at 12:15 am


Latest version, they pust their VPN (powered by Mullvad) yet again. Instead of writing version changes. sigh. https://imgur.com/g6N20bN
Shiva said on September 1, 2023 at 10:01 am


Luckily I had a recent backup available. Firefox was no longer giving me access to profiles when I reinstalled version 116.03 and was asking me to create a new profile. It asked me to upgrade last night and to my surprise all theJS scripts were gone.
https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/issues/265
Firewall said on September 1, 2023 at 3:58 pm


Firewall: “Deny [Firefox] outgoing connections to domain nextdns.io”
Firewall said on September 1, 2023 at 9:56 pm


Firewall: “Deny [plugin-container] outgoing connections to domain cloudflare-dns.com (including mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com)”
Zibtek said on September 13, 2023 at 8:46 am


It’s exciting to hear that Mozilla is actively working on a design refresh for their Firefox web browser, internally referred to as Photon. The last major redesign, known as Proton, was introduced in Firefox 57 back in November 2017. Since then, Mozilla has made some interface changes, including the controversial address bar overhaul in Firefox 75 Stable.

While specific details about the design refresh are currently limited, Mozilla has created a meta bug on Bugzilla to track the changes. Although no mockups or screenshots have been shared yet, the bug names provide some insights into the elements that will receive a refresh, such as the address bar, tabs bar, main menu, infobars, doorhangers, context menus, and modals.

The new design is scheduled to be released in Firefox 89, which was initially planned for a mid-2021 release, specifically May 18, 2021. However, as development work is still ongoing, there is a possibility of a delayed release.
1. TelV said on September 13, 2023 at 11:58 am
  
  
  @ Zibtek,
  
  I’m already using Photon on Floorp which is a fork of Firefox. Here’s a pix of what it looks like:
  https://i.postimg.cc/8PsK7DjV/floorp-photon.png I enabled the menu bar at the top, but you can turn it off if you don’t like it.
  
  Floorp is a Japanese browser based on FF102. I’ve been using it as my default browser ever since ‘owl’ pointed it out on the Ghacks site last year (or was it this year, can’t remember exactly when). In any event it contains many more enhancements than the vanilla version of Firefox. It also comes with searXNG search engine in the list of search engines provided which saves having to install it yourself.
  
  Floorp download: https://floorp.app/en/
owl said on September 13, 2023 at 9:03 am


My comment is regarding the following,
Article title:
Mozilla patches critical WebP security issue in Firefox and Thunderbird
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/13/mozilla-patches-critical-webp-security-issue-in-firefox-and-thunderbird/#respond

Indeed, today, those patch versions were applied through automatic updates.
However, since I had disabled the “WebP” function, I was not interested in that topic (Google, etc.).

Regarding Thunderbird:
Today finally,
My Thunderbird 102.14.0 (en-US) was updated with “Thunderbird 102.15.1 (x64)” through the automatic update feature.
By the way,
Naturally, it will not be automatically updated to 115 (Supernova).

Anyway,
it is clear from Bugzilla that the bug fixes related to migration from 102 to 115 are not complete, so existing users of “102” should refrain from manually updating to 115.
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/08/thunderbird-102-to-115-upgrades-are-now-enabled/#comment-4573569

Betterbird has been released 115.2.1-bb11 (12 September 2023) . Betterbird make Thunderbird a faithful upstream.
Betterbird: Release Notes
>> betterbird.eu/releasenotes/?locale=en-US&version=115.2.1&channel=default&os=WINNT&buildid=20230911203543
1. owl said on September 13, 2023 at 9:31 am
  
  
  @Martin Brinkmann,
  
  I posted in response to an article published on 2023/09/13.
  Article title: Mozilla patches critical WebP security issue in Firefox and Thunderbird. >> ghacks.net/2023/09/13/mozilla-patches-critical-webp-security-issue-in-firefox-and-thunderbird/
  However, the link was to an unrelated article published on 2019/09/27.
  >> ghacks.net/2019/09/27/how-to-import-tabs-from-chrome-to-firefox-and-vice-versa/
  
  This kind of “disorder of Articles and Comments” has been going on for another month.
  Is this an obvious (by Softonic, which operates and manages ghacks.net) act of sabotage against Martin and Ashwin?
  It’s really frustrating!
Anonymous said on September 13, 2023 at 11:09 am


[ My comment is on “Mozilla patches critical WebP security issue in Firefox and Thunderbird” https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/13/mozilla-patches-critical-webp-security-issue-in-firefox-and-thunderbird/ though not directly related to that article ]

What happened to gHacks? When the site was bought out, Martin assured us it wouldn’t go downhill and he’d maintain editorial control, but the AI-written articles are ruining the quality of the site. I’ve been tempted to drop the site from my RSS reader because of this. Is there an RSS feed with only the human-written articles? Individual feeds for each author isn’t a good solution.
Mystique said on September 13, 2023 at 1:38 pm


Article Title: Mozilla patches critical WebP security issue in Firefox and Thunderbird
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/13/mozilla-patches-critical-webp-security-issue-in-firefox-and-thunderbird/

If anyone was unaware you should download the extension “Don’t Accept WebP” regardless of the patch. WebP is absolute trash that is unnecessary and clearly an issue. I would rather my images be in their native format and not some recompiled trash such as WebP.

I have absolutely no love for the parent company of this website.
1. bruh said on September 13, 2023 at 6:33 pm
  
  
  I agree, this is so atrocious – most of the time you can even tell by the URL what format the original image was in – this “reconvert-on-the-fly” nonsense is terrible – but especially so when you’re converting a lossy format, which should be avoided as often as possible.
  
  Sometimes you can edit the image URL to get it to send the right image, unfortunately “don’t accept WebP” doesn’t always work – but that’s why they offer a built in conversion, I suppose.
2. TelV said on September 13, 2023 at 6:46 pm
  
  
  @ Mystique,
  
  Thanks for the tip (about the addon). I wasn’t aware that Webp was a vulnerability.
News filter for ghacks said on September 13, 2023 at 8:44 pm


I read only Martin Brinkmann’s, Mike Turcotte’s, and Ashwin’s articles. Add uBlock Origin news filter for ghacks:

! 2023-09-13 https://www.ghacks.net/
ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Mike Turcotte|Ashwin/))
1. Anonymous said on September 14, 2023 at 7:50 am
  
  
  @ https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/13/mozilla-patches-critical-webp-security-issue-in-firefox-and-thunderbird/#comment-4573641
  
  I tried your uBlock filter on Brave snap packaga for Ubuntu, but it doesn’t work, do I need to restart the browser?
  
  I have noticed uBO doesn’t fully work on Brave, for instance the Element Picker can’t pick anything while the Zapper do, but not 100%, Nuke Anything works much better, but it’s only temporarily.
bruh said on September 19, 2023 at 5:53 pm


“important address bar change” alright calm down… lol

I have gotten rid of the stupid shield and the “not secure” box, and have it set up so that it always displays the full URL (I think…?).

In a perfect world, it should just always show the full url, no icons, or emojis, or anything like that.

“Users may want to know why Firefox is no longer displaying https:// in the address bar” I’ll bet nobody will notice anything – apart from a select few autists like myself who customise everything and don’t like change.
1. Tom Hawack said on September 19, 2023 at 6:57 pm
  
  
  “Users may want to know why Firefox is no longer displaying https:// in the address bar”
  
  Why, I don’t know either (a breeze of madness or is it of love in the air), but there’s an about:config to handle that as well (Firefox) :
  
  // display all parts of the url in the location bar (do not trim)
  pref(“browser.urlbar.trimURLs”, false); // Dfault=true
  
  Things, too many, too often are decided in spite of common sens.
Anonymous said on September 19, 2023 at 7:48 pm


Firefox is always copying whatever Chromium does… it is like they are a Chromium browser without the name and having trouble rendering many websites. In fact, it is like they are getting 400million just for existing and adopt anything Google releases or does, like web extensions, widevine, safe browsing and then visual changes like this.

I like how some people think there is a choice, and the choice is better than the leader… while still failing at basic stuff.
Anonymous said on September 19, 2023 at 7:52 pm


What’s the point of these useless changes? Just show the full address with the protocol at all times and be done with it…
Grand Prosecutor Jihana said on September 19, 2023 at 8:55 pm


I set the User Agent address bar to always show the entire URI in a unmasked format.

Martin, as of 19 September 2023, the gHacks comments system is still severely mangled. Data subjects have considerable rights conferred on them; where those decisions are likely to affect them.
1. Grand Prosecutor Jihana said on September 21, 2023 at 4:54 pm
  
  
  Let’s start again. “I set the User Agent address bar to always show the entire URI in [an] unmasked format.”
  
  Hallowed be the memory of the Lost Souls.
Anonymous said on September 19, 2023 at 9:40 pm


“HTTPS doesn’t mean safe:
Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.”

[https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/https-does-not-mean-safe/20725/]
Anonymous said on September 19, 2023 at 9:41 pm


HTTPS doesn’t mean safe
Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.
x said on September 19, 2023 at 9:42 pm


HTTPS doesn’t mean safe
Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.
Tachy said on September 20, 2023 at 4:11 am


website still wacked huh?
Anonymous said on September 21, 2023 at 2:06 am


Article: Firefox 119 will launch with an important address bar change
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/19/firefox-119-will-launch-with-an-important-address-bar-change/

Just one thing regarding the URL bar as it looks like now in latest Firefox, the relatively new feature where some extensions would add their icon inside the URL bar, how bad can it get?

https://imgur.com/uIlWI58
https://postimg.cc/YvYnpzGh
https://ibb.co/QQT584N
ps. uploaded same pic to several links just to make sure some will work.

(For those who can’t see the pic it’s a snapshot showing a URL bar full of extensions, and also Firefox own built in icons that would appear inside the URL bar depending in some cases on which type of website is being viewed, there’s no space left for the actual thing the URL bar is supposed to view, namely the URL address itself)

Yes, I have several extensions on the toolbar, but the menu bar is pretty full and I want to keep some on the toolbar too, and usually Firefox would also push excessive extensions behind a drop-down menu for access to them as well, but as it looks like now the URL bar is given too little space priority, or is there a way to restrict to a minimum URL bar size?

Mozilla Firefox Release Schedule