Mozilla Firefox Updates

[ashwin]

Mozilla Firefox 57.0 Final is here. This is called Firefox Quantum, and brings support for WebExtensions (similar to Chrome's). Mozilla says it is 2x faster and 30% less memory than Chrome, thanks to its new engine. The GUI is also different and there are many new features.

Can Mozilla win back people who switched to Chrome? I think it could.

Firefox 57.0 is blazing fast, but addons from the old API (legacy add-ons) won't support the new version. So many are missing

[krish]

Why it is not available on official site ?

[ashwin]

Why it is not available on official site ?

Scheduled for today

[krish]

Waiting

[ashwin]

And it has been released: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14...the-world/

[ashwin]

Mozilla Firefox 57.0.1

Fixed

• Fix a video color distortion issue on YouTube and other video sites with some AMD devices (bug 1417442)
  
• Fix an issue with prefs.js when the profile path has non-ascii characters (bug 1420427)
  
• Various security fixes
  
• Google map crashes on OSX with Intel HD Graphics 3000
  

Changed

• Block injection of a client library associated with the RealPlayer Free player which is known to cause performance problems in Firefox. (Bug 1418535)
  

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

[Danielx64]

Mozilla Firefox 57.0.3


Changelog:

Fix a crash reporting issue that inadvertently sends background tab crash reports to Mozilla without user opt-in (bug 1427111)


https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57...easenotes/

[hanso]

[Software Update] Mozilla Firefox 59.0 “Quantum” Now Available for Download

UPDATED on Mar 13, 2018: Release of Mozilla Firefox 59.0 "Quantum" version.

Mozilla has updated "Firefox" web browser to version 59.0 which has been named as "Firefox Quantum". It comes with following changes:

• Performance improvements
  
  
• Improvements to Screenshots feature
  
  
• Now you can use drag-and-drop to rearrange Top Sites on Home page
  
  
• Enhanced WebExtensions API
  
  
• Improved Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities
  
  
• Added the Ecosia search engine as an option for German Firefox
  
  
• Added the Qwant search engine as an option for French Firefox
  
  
• Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device's camera, microphone, and location, while still allowing trusted websites to use these features
  
  
• Private Browsing Mode will remove path information from referrers to prevent cross-site tracking
  
  
• Various security fixes
  
  
• HTML5 improvements
  
  
• Developer improvements
  

More information

[jasonX]

Firefox 62.0

x32 (offline)
https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.n...2062.0.exe

x64 (offline)
https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.n...2062.0.exe

Portable
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62...easenotes/

[harlan4096]

Mozilla Firefox 62.0.2:

What's new: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62...easenotes/

• Unvisited bookmarks can once again be autofilled in the address bar (bug 1488879)
  
• WebGL rendering issues (bug 1489099)
  
• Updates from unpacked language packs no longer break the browser (bug 1488934)
  
• Fix fallback on startup when a language pack is missing (bug 1492459)
  
• Profile refresh from the Windows stub installer restarts the browser (bug 1491999)
  
• Properly restore window size and position when restarting on Windows (bugs 1489214 and 1489852)
  
• Avoid crash when sharing a profile with newer (as yet unreleased) versions of Firefox (bug 1490585)
  
• Do not undo removal of search engines when using a language pack (bug 1489820)
  
• Fixed rendering of some web sites (bug 1421885)
  
• Restored compatibility with some sites using deprecated TLS settings (bug 1487517)
  
• Fix screen share on MacOS when using multiple monitors (bug 1487419)
  
• Various security fixes
  

• Reference link to 62.0 release notes
  

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