Firefox’s answer to the “AI everywhere” debate arrives as a clear, user-facing escape hatch: starting with Firefox 148 (rolling out on February 24, 2026), Mozilla is shipping a dedicated AI Controls section that includes a single master switch — labeled Block AI enhancements — plus per-feature...
Firefox’s latest desktop update leans into a rare — and deliberate — user-first stance on artificial intelligence while polishing the browser’s accessibility, backup, and drag‑and‑drop workflows, plus closing out legacy Windows support with a final security nod to older systems.
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Mozilla’s support path for users running pre–Windows 10 desktops has reached a clear milestone: Firefox 115 ESR will be the last maintained Firefox build for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, and Mozilla’s support documentation now states that security updates for those legacy installations...
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The vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2024‑4775 — a missing iterator stop condition in Firefox’s built‑in profiler that could produce invalid memory access when WebAssembly frames are present — is real, it was fixed in Firefox 126, and it is unlikely to be a broad cross‑vendor “library in every Linux...
Mozilla pushed a small but important maintenance release for the stable channel this week: Firefox 147.0.4 ships a targeted user-experience fix that stops some users from seeing a blank New Tab (about:home/about:newtab) and closes a heap-buffer-overflow in the libvpx video codec (tracked as...
Firefox’s next stable release will put a single master switch in users’ hands: a new AI Controls pane that lets you disable built‑in generative AI features — or pick and choose the ones you want to keep — and promises the setting will persist across updates.
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Mozilla pushed a targeted maintenance update this week — Firefox 147.0.3 — to repair a cluster of user-facing UI regressions and minor interoperability issues introduced during the January 2026 147 train. The build, published to Firefox’s release channel on February 4, 2026, bundles focused...
Mozilla has shipped Firefox 147.0.3 — a small but important dot-release that patches multiple user-facing regressions introduced with the 147 train and, critically for Windows users, addresses a set of UI and popup-placement problems that left some people unable to interact with context menus...
Mozilla has given users a one-click way to tell the AI revolution to stay out of their browser: starting with Firefox 148, rolling out February 24, the desktop browser adds an AI Controls panel with a single “Block AI enhancements” master switch that disables current and future generative AI...
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Mozilla has shipped a maintenance release for its desktop browser: Firefox 147.0.2, published on January 27, 2026, to address a pair of security vulnerabilities and a clutch of user-facing regressions and compatibility problems that began appearing after the Firefox 147 train rolled out earlier...
Mozilla’s public commitment to turn Firefox into an “AI browser” under new CEO Anthony Enzor‑DeMeo has reignited a familiar debate: can a privacy‑first browser embrace powerful generative AI without betraying the users who have long chosen it specifically to avoid the AI‑centric direction of...
Mozilla’s latest strategic pivot makes one thing clear: Firefox will no longer be content with being a privacy‑first browser that quietly resists the AI tide — it plans to become an AI‑powered browser, and that decision is already provoking a fierce debate among the people who have long defined...
Firefox 145 arrives as a pragmatic, user-facing update that closes a long-running compatibility chapter — ending official 32‑bit Linux builds — while delivering practical improvements like in‑browser PDF annotations, smarter tab handling, and a subtly refreshed tab UI aimed at streamlining daily...
Mozilla has quietly shipped Firefox 144.0.2, a targeted point release that patches a clutch of stability regressions first seen after the 144 series, fixes a OneDrive rendering problem, and smooths a handful of platform-specific integration issues that have been inconveniencing Windows and macOS...
If you thought uninstalling Firefox removes every trace of the browser, think again — extensions, plugins, cache and full user profiles are often left behind by design, and these leftover files can linger in hidden folders across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This feature-length guide shows exactly...
Changing your browser homepage is a tiny tweak with outsized benefits: it lets a single click put your email, intranet, or preferred search page in front of you the moment your browser opens. The quick how‑to circulated by Windows Report lays out the basics for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera...
Mozilla’s pledge to keep Firefox current on Windows 10 alters the short-term security calculus for millions of PCs, but it does not erase the underlying risk of running an unsupported operating system — and the practical steps users and IT teams must take now are precise, time-boxed, and...
Microsoft’s final free monthly update for Windows 10 has landed, and the practical consequences are now clear: Microsoft has ended routine OS-level servicing for Windows 10, but Mozilla says Firefox will keep receiving feature and security updates on Windows 10 for the foreseeable future — a...
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Mozilla has quietly shipped Firefox 143.0.1 — a focused, emergency patch whose sole purpose is to stop a class of tab crashes caused by third-party DLL injection on Windows systems, with multiple reports pointing to Trend Micro's tmmon64.dll as a common trigger.
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Firefox’s latest stable update, Firefox 143, pushes two headline features into the hands of users: an AI chat provider shortcut that surfaces Microsoft Copilot inside the browser’s AI sidebar, and a Windows-only web‑app (pinned‑site) workflow that lets you add sites to the taskbar and run them...
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