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You’ll be able to turn off Firefox’s AI features this month

Firefox 148 adds a new “AI Controls” panel to granularly disable or entirely block AI features with a kill-switch. Opt out of AI when the update drops in February.
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Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More

Firefox 147 released with XDG directory support ending a 20-year Linux bug, auto Picture-in-Picture, better AMD video performance, and new web standards.
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FoxReplace – a Text Replacement Addon for Firefox Browser

FoxReplace is a Firefox addon that is able to replace text in a web page, in both editing and reading mode, with or without regular expression (regex), both manually and automatically. We use it as a complement to Find and Replace which we reviewed las…

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Find and Replace – a Firefox Addon So Useful for Online Text Editing

Find and Replace for Text Editing (or simply Find and Replace) is a Firefox addon to do what its name says by Blake Altice (originally written by Dalimil Hajek). It has capabilities to find text based on regular expression (regex) as well as simple pla…

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Firefox’s On-Device AI Features Now Up to 10x Faster

Mozilla replaces slow WebAssembly with native C++ for Firefox AI features, netting faster performance for features like Smart Tab Groups and alt-text generation.
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[Quick Fix] Firefox Cannot Download or Open Files in Ubuntu 24.04

The default Firefox browser (Snap version) in Ubuntu 24.04 is always failing to download or open files! Here’s why and how you can fix it. Not only for Firefox, the issue also happens when read or write user files with other SNAP apps in both Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTSs. Why? I first heard of […]

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Zen Browser is What Mozilla Firefox Should Be

Mozilla Firefox is a solid web browser, but what if it was… Better? That question finds its answer in Zen Browser. Zen is a free, open-source Firefox fork available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s not new, having been around since 2024, …

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Firefox Web App Support Available to Test (on Windows, At Least)

Mozilla’s long-standing antipathy in supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Firefox began to thaw earlier this year, as bods behind the browser finally announced plans to embrace them. And if you installed the Firefox 142 release, you can take…

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Firefox 143 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 143 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!
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Firefox 142.0 Available with More Flexible ETP Strict Exceptions

Firefox 142.0, the August release of the free open-source web browser, is available to download. The official release note for the new version is not ready at the moment of writing, though the source tarball and installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS are out! According to the Github releases page, Firefox 142.0 added new ETP […]

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Firefox 142 Adds New Tab Topics, Local AI in Extensions + More

Mozilla has released Firefox 142, rolling out several features aimed at improving both user experience and developer functionality — and yes, AI is involved too. Last month, Firefox 141 added AI to the browser’s existing Tab Groups feature, altho…

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Firefox 142 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Firefox Add-Ons Website Revamps Listing Pages

Firefox Add-Ons are a crucial element of this open source browser, and finding good ones that work well, important. A design change aims to help.
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Firefox 142 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!
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Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Grouping, Reduces Memory Use on Linux

Firefox logo in front of white 141 numbers; red background.Firefox 141 is out, featuring AI-powered tab groups, lower memory usage on Linux, a new unit converter, and expanded PiP support. See what’s new.

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Firefox 141.0 is Available with Less Memory Usage for Linux

Firefox 141.0, a new monthly release of Mozilla’s web browser, is available to download! The official release note, as usual, is not ready yet. While the official pre-build packages are out along with the source tarball. The new release can now automatically collect your tabs into groups. It will also suggest group names based on […]

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Firefox 141 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now

Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect!
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Firefox 140.0 is Available with Custom Search Engine

The 140.0 release of Firefox web browser is available to download after 4 weeks of development and beta testing. In addition to Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Wikipedia, the new release introduced custom search engine support. User now can either right-click search field of a supported website and select Add Search Engine, or go to “Settings […]

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Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR

Firefox 140 released with tab unloading, custom search engines, and more. ESR users gain major new features like tab grouping and vertical tabs.
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