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Mozilla Firefox's innovative 'Shake to Summarize' feature, which allows users to shake their phone to generate article summaries, received a special mention in TIME's Best Inventions of 2025, highlighting its impact on user experience. The feature is currently available on iOS in the US, with an Android version in development, and is part of Firefox's broader updates including new profile management capabilities.
A Russian state-sponsored group, RomCom, has exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Windows to execute a zero-click cyber attack, installing a backdoor on targeted computers. The vulnerabilities, rated 9.8 and 8.8 in severity, were quickly patched by Mozilla and Microsoft. The attack primarily affected users in Europe and North America, highlighting the importance of keeping software updated to prevent such exploits.
Clearing your browser's cache can resolve outdated content issues, fix bugs, and enhance security. This guide explains how to clear the cache on popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari across desktop and mobile devices.
Mozilla Firefox 122 is set to be officially released on January 23rd, 2024, with new features including a DEB package for Linux users, improved translations, enhanced web browser compatibility, privacy enhancements for Android users, and various web development support additions. The release also removes the "Snippets" option and "Search Bar" settings, and addresses security issues and bugs. Mozilla plans to make the official announcement soon, but the browser can already be downloaded from their server.
Mozilla Firefox for Android now supports over 450 extensions, allowing users to enhance their web browsing experience with features like ad skipping, dark mode, time management, webpage saving, and web page archiving. This update brings back the open extensions ecosystem for Firefox on Android, providing an alternative to Chrome and Safari in the mobile browser market.
Mozilla Firefox 113 introduces an enhanced Picture-in-Picture mode with more buttons and controls, a redesigned accessibility engine, and improvements to the Windows GPU sandbox. The update also includes support for copying favicons when importing bookmarks, and more improvements to the Android web browser. Firefox 113 will automatically install the update on your computer, phone, or tablet when it’s available.
Mozilla Firefox 113 is now available for download, featuring improved support for AVIF images, a more secure built-in password generator, enhanced Picture-in-Picture mode, and a redesigned accessibility engine. It also brings support for hardware-accelerated AV1 video decoding and GPU-accelerated Canvas2D by default on Android devices, as well as several improvements for web developers. The release removes long-deprecated types and improves importing of bookmarks from Chrome-based browsers. The stable release will be announced on May 9th, 2023.
Mozilla has integrated its email protection system, Firefox Relay, directly into the Firefox browser, making it easier for users to generate new email masks or use existing ones when signing up for online services. Firefox Relay offers users a way to create email aliases that protect their actual email addresses from spammers and trackers. The service has blocked over 2.1 million unwanted emails since its launch. Mozilla also announced the launch of Total Cookie Protection for the Android version of the Firefox browser, automatically blocking all cross-site trackers.