Firefox 138 Has Arrived: Here's What's New

Mozilla is present rolling retired Firefox 138 crossed desktop platforms, Android, and iPhone. The update includes updates to profiles, much improvements for tab groups, and different adjuvant changes.

First, Firefox is rolling retired names, avatars, and colour themes for profiles to assistance you amended signifier them. For example, you could person Work and Personal profiles with abstracted bookmarks and browsing history, past marque them color-coded for casual recognition.

Firefox has already included a upwind indicator connected the New Tab leafage for a fewer versions, astatine slightest successful the United States, and present upwind is besides coming to the code bar. If you’re successful the U.S., searching for “weather” volition present amusement the existent conditions from AccuWeather successful the results dropdown menu.

Mozilla says the Tab Groups diagnostic from Firefox 137 is “now disposable to astir each users worldwide,” and determination are a fewer much updates successful Firefox 138. You tin present marque a tab radical by dragging 1 tab onto another, waiting a second, past dropping it. Tab groups tin besides beryllium moved astir by dragging them. Related to tabs, you tin present right-click connected inheritance tabs to transcript the tab’s link.

There are plentifulness of different tiny changes that adhd up to a amended browsing experience, too. Firefox should besides consciousness much astatine location connected Windows 11—Mozilla said successful the changelog, “Firefox connected Windows 11 present uses acrylic-style menus for popup windows, which amended lucifer the operating system’s aesthetic.” The autofill for addresses and recognition cards should present enactment amended with forms that load further fields aft the archetypal leafage load.

Mozilla besides noted that Firefox’s migration wizard mightiness nary longer enactment with passwords successful Chrome (or Chrome-based browsers) connected Windows, “due to caller changes successful Chrome connected Windows.” As a workaround, you request to export your passwords arsenic a CSV record from the archetypal browser’s settings, past import that database into Firefox from the migration wizard oregon Firefox password manager.

Firefox for Android

There are a fewer improvements for the Android mentation of Firefox arsenic well. The downloads leafage present groups files by clip play and categories, and you tin stock a downloaded record oregon its archetypal URL from the Downloads screen. The bookmarks surface is besides getting the quality to pin folders and manually benignant bookmarks.

One much adjuvant update is that Firefox connected Android tablets present defaults to desktop mode, overmuch similar the existent versions of Chrome and different browsers connected Android, arsenic good arsenic Safari connected iPad tablets. You tin inactive power web pages to mobile views from the Site Settings, if needed.

How to Update Firefox

Firefox volition automatically instal the update connected your computer, phone, oregon tablet erstwhile it's available. To instantly check for and instal immoderate disposable updates, click the paper icon astatine the top-right of the browser toolbar and prime "About Firefox."

You tin download Firefox from Mozilla's authoritative website, the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and Microsoft Store.

Source: Firefox Release Notes (Desktop, Android)