Firefox 132 adds 4K video support and enhanced privacy features

Firefox's has been reimagined successful 2024 to beryllium fast, modern and inviting nan first clip you tally it and each time after. We've ever had your backmost connected privacy, and still do. We deliberation nan browser should beryllium a portion of package you tin trust connected to person your back, pleasant to look astatine and moving seamlessly pinch nan web.

Is Firefox a trustworthy browser?

Firefox is considered a unafraid and backstage browser. By default, Firefox blocks known 3rd statement trackers, societal media trackers, cryptomining scripts and fingerprinters from collecting your data.

Does Firefox usage Google arsenic a hunt engine?

Yes, Google pays hefty royalties to Mozilla/Firefox for making them nan default hunt motor successful Firefox. That deal is worth astir $400 cardinal per twelvemonth (as of 2021-2022) and makes up nan immense mostly of Mozilla's full revenue.

Is Firefox amended than Google Chrome?

Firefox and Chrome are updated each fewer weeks, truthful it's difficult to comparison them complete time. At 1 point, Firefox has offered advantages complete Chrome successful position of RAM usage, but that declare tin spell backmost and distant depending connected nan revision (and nan imaginable for regressions). Microsoft Edge and Apple's Safari person besides made specified claims, but successful wide each browsers are continually improving and beating each other.

Firefox does connection amended privateness and customizability (to an extent) and is simply a coagulated browser pinch tons of add-ons available. If you want nan champion customizability connected a banal browser, you should besides cheque retired Vivaldi (Chromium based).

Who owns Firefox?

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

Is Firefox based connected Chromium?

No, Firefox is not based connected Chromium. In fact, Firefox is 1 of nan past awesome browsers that isn't. Firefox runs connected its ain Quantum browser engine.

Features

A sleek, cleanable Firefox creation backed by research

Going into nan Firefox redesign, our squad studied really group interact pinch nan browser, watching their patterns and behaviors. We listened to feedback and gathered ideas from regular group who conscionable want to person an easier acquisition connected nan web. We obsessed complete distractions, other clicks and wasted time. The resulting caller creation is simple, modern and accelerated and delivers a beautiful acquisition to support what group do astir successful Firefox.

Streamlined toolbar and menus

The toolbar is people wherever you commencement each web visit. It's nan spot wherever you type a URL to spell location online. After web page content, it's what you look astatine astir successful Firefox. The caller toolbar is simplified and clutter-free truthful you get to nan bully worldly effortlessly.

Menus are wherever cardinal Firefox actions and commands live. We've consolidated other menus to trim clutter and beryllium much intuitive done nan 3 bars paper successful nan precocious correct aliases by right-clicking to activate it connected your machine screen. The caller look reorganized and streamlined our menus to put nan champion actions quickly astatine your fingertips.

When privateness protections are engaged successful Firefox, nan shield icon successful nan toolbar glows subtly indicating that we're moving down nan scenes to protect you from nosy trackers. Fun fact: Firefox has blocked much than 6 trillion --- that's trillion pinch a T --- trackers since we rolled retired enhanced search protection, stopping thousands of companies from viewing your online activity.. We're talking astir search cookies, societal media trackers, fingerprinters, cryptominers and more. Go up and click connected nan shield to spot who and what Firefox is blocking... you mightiness beryllium amazed by what you find out.

A caller look for tabs

Based connected our research, we recovered retired that much than half of you person 4+ tabs unfastened each nan time, and immoderate of you person more, a batch more. And we consciousness that! Tab arsenic overmuch arsenic you like, friends. Tabs sewage a makeover truthful they are now mildly curved and float supra nan toolbar. It's an breathtaking alteration that besides serves arsenic a reminder that tabs aren't stationary. So drawback those tabs, move them astir and shape them arsenic you like. Tabs besides sewage a glow-up to beryllium a touch brighter erstwhile active.

What's New

New

• Microsoft PlayReady encrypted media playback is now being rolled retired to prime sites connected Windows. Through this support, we are gradually rolling retired a 1080p baseline and 4K Ultra HD support pinch cardinal streaming partners. An added use is that viewers get little artillery drain and amended capacity erstwhile streaming their favourite movies and shows.
• Wide Color Gamut WebGL is now disposable for Windows and macOS users! With this support, Firefox is bringing a richer, much vivid scope of colors to nan videos, games, and images connected your screen. This implementation presently supports wider colour (P3) profiles successful 8-bit.
• WebRender hardware accelerated rendering is now enabled for astir SVG select primitives, improving capacity for definite graphics-heavy content. Accelerated filters are feBlend, feColorMatrix, feComponentTransfer, feComposite, feDropShadow, feFlood, feGaussianBlur, feMerge and feOffset.
• Added support for macOS' caller surface and model sharing action features connected macOS 15 and later. Support for macOS 14 will beryllium added successful a early release.
• The macOS convention resume characteristic has been enhanced. Firefox will now automatically relaunch if it was unfastened earlier a strategy restart, for illustration aft an OS update.
• Firefox now blocks third-party cooky entree erstwhile Enhanced Tracking Protection's Strict mode is enabled.

Fixed

• Various information fixes.

Changed

• As a follow-up to our activity to upgrade mixed contented starting pinch Firefox 127, HTTP-favicons will now besides beryllium blocked if they tin not beryllium received complete HTTPS instead.
• The Copy Without Site Tracking action is now grayed retired erstwhile nary known search parameters are recovered wrong nan link. Additionally, much search parameter support has been added for websites specified arsenic LinkedIn and Shopee. Please study search parameters that aren't removed by filing a bug successful Bugzilla.

Previous Release Notes:

• Security Vulnerability fixed successful Firefox 131.0.2, Firefox ESR 128.3.1, Firefox ESR 115.16.1

Previous Release Notes:

• Fixed an rumor causing immoderate sites to not load erstwhile connecting via HTTP/2. (Bug 1908161, Bug 1909666)
• Fixed collapsed array rows not appearing erstwhile expected successful immoderate situations. (Bug 1907789)
• Fixed nan Windows on-screen keyboard perchance concealing nan web page erstwhile displayed. (Bug 1907766)
• Starting pinch Firefox 127, we're enabling a caller anti-tracking characteristic successful Nightly: Bounce Tracking Protection. This protection detects bounce trackers based connected redirect behaviour and periodically purges their cookies & tract information to forestall tracking.
• Starting pinch Firefox for Android 128, nan caller tab portion characteristic for tablets is disposable for testing successful Nightly builds! This enhancement makes tab guidance much intuitive and efficient, providing a smoother browsing acquisition for devices successful that shape factor. Please stock your feedback connected Google Play and/or nan Mozilla Connect station to thief america amended it further.
• Firefox now supports playback of protected contented from streaming sites for illustration Netflix while successful Private Browsing mode.
• Firefox now has a simpler and much unified dialog for clearing personification data. In summation to streamlining information categories, nan caller dialog besides provides insights into nan tract information size corresponding to nan selected clip range.

New

• The Copy Without Site Tracking action tin now region parameters from nested URLs. It besides includes expanded support for blocking complete 300 search parameters from copied links, including those from awesome shopping websites. Keep those trackers distant erstwhile sharing links!
• Firefox now supports Content-encoding: zstd (zstandard compression). This is an replacement to broti and gzip compression for web content, and tin supply higher compression levels for nan aforesaid CPU used, aliases conversely little server CPU usage to get nan aforesaid compression. This is heavy utilized connected sites specified arsenic Facebook.
• Catalan is now disposable successful Firefox Translations.
• Enabled AV1 hardware decode acceleration connected macOS for M3 Macs.
• Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by class to broadly pass hunt characteristic development. These categories are based connected 20 high-level contented types, specified arsenic "sports," "business," and "travel". This information will not beryllium associated pinch circumstantial users and will beryllium collected utilizing OHTTP to region IP addresses arsenic perchance identifying metadata. No profiling will beryllium performed, and nary information will beryllium shared pinch 3rd parties. (read more)
• Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution ("VSR") is now disposable successful Firefox. RTX VSR enhances and sharpens little solution video erstwhile upscaled to higher resolutions and besides removes blocky artifacts commonly visible connected debased bitrate streamed video. VSR requires astatine slightest a 20-series aliases higher Nvidia RTX GPU, Microsoft Windows 10/11 64-bit, and Nvidia driver type R530 aliases higher. The characteristic tin beryllium enabled successful nan Nvidia power panel.
• Nvidia RTX Video HDR is now disposable successful Firefox. RTX Video HDR automatically converts SDR video to vibrant HDR10 successful existent time, letting you bask video pinch improved clarity connected your HDR10 panel. It requires astatine slightest a 20-series Nvidia RTX GPU, Microsoft Windows 10/11 64-bit, and Nvidia driver type 550 aliases higher. The characteristic tin beryllium enabled successful nan Nvidia power panel.

Fixed

• Various information fixes.

Changed

• The URL Paste Suggestion characteristic added successful Fx125 was temporarily abnormal while nan squad investigates a imaginable capacity issue. The characteristic will beryllium re-enabled successful a early merchandise erstwhile nan capacity rumor is addressed.

Last updated:

October 28, 2024

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