Updates 12/9/25 - Microsoft Tuesday, & Firefox & Adobe

New

• Windows 10 users can now automatically protect their passwords, bookmarks, and more by turning on backup in Firefox. Your browsing data is saved daily on your device and can be encrypted with a password. When you set up a fresh install of Firefox on any operating system for a new device or your current one, you can restore from this backup and pick up right where you left off. This feature is currently available on Windows devices and will be coming to other operating systems soon.

  

  This feature is part of a progressive roll out.

  What is a progressive roll out?

• MacOS users now have a dedicated GPU process by default. This includes WebGPU, WebGL, and Firefox's own WebRender. With this feature enabled, fatal errors in graphics code will no longer crash the browser, and will instead transparently restart the GPU process.

• Firefox Labs is now available to all users, regardless of whether they choose to participate in studies or submit telemetry. This means more experimental features are now available to more people.

• Users can now skip the results page and see direct results as they type in the search bar for faster, simpler browsing.

  

  This feature is part of a progressive roll out.

  What is a progressive roll out?

• There is a New Tab Weather opt-in workflow available for users in the EU and some other countries, where they can choose whether to enable location detection or manually search for a location.

  

  This feature is part of a progressive roll out.

  What is a progressive roll out?

• Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

• For users of the English-language versions of Firefox in France, Germany, and Italy, the address bar now shows English-language suggestions for holidays and other important dates.

Fixed

• When the timepicker is enabled for <input type="time"> and <input type="datetime-local">, it now provides full keyboard and assistive technology support. This update also improves the behavior of the time spin buttons for users who prefer reduced motion. The Firefox Accessibility team hopes that making the built-in timepicker accessible will encourage wider adoption of browser-provided time and date inputs across the web, reducing the need for custom controls, and improving accessibility for all users.

• Various security fixes.

Changed

• The Colors dialog in Settings now uses clearer color picker controls that keep each color sample next to its label. It makes it easier to understand and adjust text, background, and link colors when using a forced colors palette to customize the default text, link, and page background colors, especially with or without screen magnifiers.

  

• Firefox removed support for Direct2D on Windows. If you still require Direct2D support, please use ESR 140.0 or higher.

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