Mozilla today officially released Firefox 115 stable update, the most noteworthy point of this update is that this is the last version to support Win7 / Win8, macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14.
Download at: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/115.0/
Mozilla stated in the official changelog that
Microsoft ended support for Win7 and Win8 systems in January 2023, and today’s Firefox 115 release is the last update that users of these systems will receive.
Win7 and Win8 users will then be automatically migrated to Firefox ESR version 115 so that they continue to receive important security updates.
This is the last major version of Firefox to support Apple macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14. Users of these operating systems will be migrated to the ESR 115 version of Firefox so that they continue to receive important updates.
The updates for all major platforms are as follows:
The Firefox 115 update for the desktop is as follows:
- Want to migrate data from other browsers? Firefox now supports the migration of payments from Chromium browsers.
- Hardware video decoding is enabled on Intel GPUs running Linux distributions.
- Tab Manager drop-down menu now has a close button, so you can close tabs more quickly.
- Redesigned and simplified the user interface for importing data from other browsers.
- On devices that don’t support H264 video decoding, you can roll back to Cisco’s OpenH264 plugin for playback.
- Windows magnifier now correctly follows the text cursor when the Firefox title bar is visible.
- Windows users using the Starter or USB Wi-Fi drivers with OS geolocation disabled can now approve geolocation on a case-by-case basis without causing system-wide network instability.
Firefox 115 for Android has been updated as follows:
- Introduced new search button in the address bar to easily switch search engines and support searching your bookmarks and browsing history.
- Fixed the issue of playing Apple TV+ DRM video.
- Fix the Talkback accessibility feature.
- Fixed the problem of the download progress bar for large files.
- Fixed the problem of file name extension of downloaded files.
Updates to Firefox 115 for iOS:
- Brought theme updates for Pocket branding, URL address bar and account settings page.
- Added support for large text and adaptive fonts.
- Fixed a bug in Tab focus and password biometrics.
- Fixed truncated settings summary and touch ID text errors.
- Fixed the issue that new tabs always open in regular mode.
- Fixed an issue with the number of text in the URL bar when opening a new tab.
- Fixed an issue with session recovery message handling.
- Fixed many issues including warnings, zoom page improvements, cut-off of the onboarding button, correct home page icon, experiments with onboarding cards, and survey links.
