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The firefox-labs tag on WindowsForum covers experimental features and early-stage tools in Mozilla Firefox, as seen in recent releases like Firefox 143 and 146. Topics include the Backup Assistant for local PC backups during Windows upgrades, AI sidebar integrations such as Microsoft Copilot, Windows web apps (pinned sites), Wayland fractional scaling, GPU process improvements, and New Tab page widgets. Discussions focus on practical usability, platform-specific stability, and privacy experiments, often highlighting features tested in Firefox Nightly before broader release. The tag reflects Mozilla's rapid development cycle and its efforts to balance innovation with cross-platform performance.
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    Firefox 146 Backup Assistant: Local PC Backups for Windows Upgrades

    Mozilla’s new Firefox 146 release brings a focused, on‑device Backup Assistant for Windows users alongside the usual developer and platform updates — a practical tool that aims to simplify Windows 10 → Windows 11 migrations by offering an explicit “Back up to PC” path in addition to the existing...
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    Firefox 146: Wayland Fractional Scaling, Back Up to PC, GPU Process, Labs

    Mozilla’s year‑end Firefox 146 release is a modest but meaningful polish: native fractional‑scaling support on Wayland for Linux, a new local “Back up to PC” assistant for Windows 10, a dedicated GPU process on macOS, and a clutch of developer‑facing and UX refinements that tidy up rendering...
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    Firefox 146: Backup Assistant for Windows and Cross Platform Rendering Upgrades

    Firefox 146 is rolling out with a practical migration-oriented backup tool for Windows 10 users and a clutch of platform-specific stability and rendering improvements that aim to make Firefox more resilient across Windows, macOS, and Linux — but the update also removes legacy graphics support...
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    Firefox 143: Copilot in AI Sidebar and Windows Web Apps (Pinned Sites)

    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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    Firefox Nightly Expands AI with Copilot in Sidebar and New Tab Widgets

    Firefox Nightly has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to its sidebar and rolled out early New Tab page widgets — a clear sign that Mozilla is expanding both its AI integrations and its on-page productivity ambitions, all inside the experimental Nightly channel where features are prototyped before...
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