Mozilla acquired Fakespot in May of this year. Note: Fakespot is a startup that helps users identify fake news through website and browser extensions, identifying fake reviews on Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Walmart, and eBay through an A to F rating.

The Review Checker tool uses AI to identify artificially generated or user-scrubbed reviews. Fakespot founder Saoud Khalifah said at the time of the acquisition that reviews are important to the online shopping experience because consumers often can’t touch the actual product before they shop for it, and need to rely on reviews for a multi-dimensional understanding.

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Mozilla said it will announce the exact launch date in September this year, and said it will allow the Android version of the Firefox browser to use desktop extensions before the end of this year.

Mozilla said that in the past few years, the development of Firefox for Android has focused on core functions and only supports a small number of extensions.

It is learned from the press release that Mozilla believes that the infrastructure of the Android version of Firefox has been basically stable after years of development, and the next step is to open the extension system to meet the individual needs of mobile users.

Giorgio Natili, director of browser engineering at Firefox, said: “The mobile browser space can unlock a lot of creative potential. Mozilla wants to provide the best support for developers so that they can build web extensions suitable for the mobile era.”

Firefox will be the only mainstream Android browser to support an open extension ecosystem, Mozilla said.

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According to reports from foreign technology media such as 9to5Linux, phoronix, and ghacks, Firefox 116 mainly introduces a volume slider for the picture-in-picture mode, improves the Ctrl-Shift-T shortcut key combination, and improves the HTTP/2 upload function.

The new version no longer supports Win7, Win8 and Win8.1, nor macOS 10.14, 10.13 and 10.12.

Windows and macOS users who are still running the above versions can try the Firefox ESR version, which will continue to be supported until September 2024.

The official release date for Firefox 116 and Firefox 115.1 ESR is August 1, 2023. Most browser installations will be automatically upgraded to new versions thanks to the built-in update system.
New features and improvements in Firefox 116:
Adjust the Ctrl-Shift-T key combination

In Firefox, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-T reopens the last closed tab by default, or the previous session if there are no tabs to reopen.

And starting with Firefox 116, this keyboard shortcut now also supports reopening the browser window.

New logic to reopen the last closed tab or browser window, or the previous browsing session if there are no more tabs or windows to reopen.
Picture-in-picture support for the volume slider

Firefox’s picture-in-picture mode now supports a volume slider to make it easier to change the volume.

The Linux version supports only the Wayland option

The Linux Firefox 116 stable release allows users to choose between Wayland-only and X11-only.

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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.

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At present, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome have taken the lead in dropping support for older platforms, while Mozilla continues to support Firefox users on Windows 7 and 8/8.1, but it is clear that this cannot last forever. After months of deliberation, Mozilla is finally ready to announce the end-of-support date for its service.

Mozilla released Firefox 113.0.2, which fixes various bugs. It is noticed that Mozilla published a support document on its official website, announcing that Firefox 115 will be the last version of the Firefox browser to support Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 users.

According to reports, customers who are unwilling to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 can use the Firefox 115 Extended Support Release (ESR) until September 2024, and Mozilla also promises to continue to provide users with 15 months of security updates and provide adequate support. Time for users to upgrade.

 Microsoft ended official support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in January 2023. Unsupported operating systems do not receive any security updates and have known vulnerabilities. Maintaining Firefox for an outdated operating system without official support from Microsoft is costly for Mozilla and dangerous for users.

Of course, for Windows 7 hardcore fans, it may not mean that the end is not over. After all, there are still some people who use Windows XP because they like it, and that’s enough.

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A new feature in Firefox 115 will allow middle-clicking on the new tab button to paste the contents of the clipboard, whether it’s a URL or plain text. So a middle mouse button click on the New Tab button will open whatever is in the clipboard, no matter where the content was copied from, which means it can be from any of your applications, additionally the copied text will work as expected Your default search provider opens.

In current Firefox browser versions, middle-clicking the “New Tab” button now opens a new tab just like when you left-clicked it, which was previously implemented in Chrome/Chromium web browsing available on the device.

This feature will be implemented in the Firefox 115 browser version, and it is currently being pushed by users of the Nightly (Note: alpha state) channel.

The feature will be enabled by default in Firefox 115, and users can turn it off by setting the browser.tabs.searchclipboardfor.middleclick option in about:config from true to false.

The Firefox 115 browser will enter the Beta channel in a “more stable” form on June 5, 2023, the day before the release of the next major version, Firefox 114, which will bring improved DNS over HTTPS functionality, Cookie Banner Reduced functionality and other changes.

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Optimized picture-in-picture (PiP) mode

In Firefox 113, the picture-in-picture window can display video progress bars, fast forward and fast back buttons for a more complete video control experience.

Picture-in-picture window in Firefox version 112

Picture-in-picture window in Firefox 113

Enhancements to the built-in password generator

The generated passwords can now contain special characters, improving the complexity and security of passwords.

Firefox 112 version generated passwords

Firefox 113 version generated passwords

Redesigned Accessibility Engine

The new accessibility framework for screen readers and some other accessibility software, input methods, etc. improves the speed, responsiveness and stability of Firefox.

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Firefox users can open Menu > Help > About Firefox to display the version installed on their device. When you open the About page, your browser checks for updates, and when it finds an available update, it performs the update automatically.

Download address: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/110.0.1/

Firefox 110.0.1 fixes five non-security issues, including a crash. Three of the resolved issues affect specific operating systems

Fixed clearing recent cookies causing all cookies to be cleared.

Fixed a CSP serialization error causing issues with Danish MitID Digital IDs.

Fixed an issue where sometimes clicking the Manage Bookmarks link would not open the Bookmarks Manager on Windows platforms.

Fixed a WebGL crash on Linux platforms when running in a VMWare virtual machine.

Fixed a bug that prevented the mail menu from sometimes displaying in the background instead of the foreground on macOS platforms.

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Firefox 110 stable version update main content.

Support for importing data from more browsers

Firefox 110 version supports importing bookmarks, history and passwords from Opera, Opera GX and Vivaldi, in addition to the existing support for Edge, Chrome and Safari browsers, for all those who want to switch to Firefox.

The Windows version of Firefox 110 has GPU sandboxing enabled.

Firefox 110 for Windows prevents the injection of third-party modules that can cause browser crashes and other undesirable behavior.

Cmd + Backspace and Cmd + Delete shortcuts are available for Firefox 110 for macOS, and Ctrl + Backspace and Ctrl + Delete shortcuts are available for Firefox 110 for Windows and Linux to clear date, time, and local time-related input text fields.

Canvas2D with GPU acceleration is enabled by default for macOS and Linux versions of Firefox 110

Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of Firefox 110 have improved WebGL performance.

Enables hardware decoding from non-Intel GPUs on Windows 10/11 to improve video playback performance and video scaling quality.

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Apple is now requiring all third-party browsers to use the same WebKit engine as Safari. This means that all iPhone and iPad browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, are effectively the same as Safari from a performance standpoint.

However, Europe’s Digital Marketplace Act may force Apple to compromise on this issue. It’s possible that Apple will drop the mandatory WebKit requirement in iOS 17 this fall. In fact it was reported last week that both Google and Mozilla are working on browsers for the iOS / iPadOS platform that use a non-WebKit engine.

When asked about these reports, Mitchell Baker explained that a non-WebKit-based browser for iPhone and iPad is something Mozilla has been working on: “We’ve been looking at what we could do if we had the ability to deliver the product we wanted. So we’ve been focusing on that.”

Mitchell Baker didn’t say anything very specific, however, but Mitchell Baker also noted that people are “at least more willing” to consider switching browsers on cell phones than on other platforms.

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