Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Mozilla Firefox Version 53.0 Released with Massive Security Updates


FirefoxMozilla sent Firefox Version 53.0 to the release channel today.  The update includes a massive 35 security updates identified as eight (8) Critical, sixteen (16) High, seven (7) Moderate updates and four (4) low security updates.  Firefox ESR was updated to version 45.9.0.

The next scheduled release is June 13, 2017 (5 week cycle with release for critical fixes as needed).

Security Fixes:

Critical

High

Moderate

Low

New

  • Improved graphics stability for Windows users with the addition of compositor process separation (Quantum Compositor)
  • Two new 'compact' themes available in Firefox, dark and light, based on the Firefox Developer Edition theme
  • Lightweight themes are now applied in private browsing windows
  • Reader Mode now displays estimated reading time for the page
  • Windows 7+ users on 64-bit OS can select 32-bit or 64-bit versions in the stub installer

Changed

  • Updated the design of site permission requests to make them harder to miss and easier to understand
  • Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported. XP and Vista users running Firefox 52 will continue to receive security updates on Firefox ESR 52.
  • 32-bit Mac OS X is no longer supported. 32-bit Mac OS X users can switch to Firefox ESR 52 to continue receiving security updates.
  • Updates for Mac OS X are smaller in size compared to updates for Firefox 52
  • Media playback on new tabs is blocked until the tab is visible
  • The last few characters of shortened tab titles fade out instead of being replaced by ellipses to keep more of the title visible
  • New visual design for audio and video controls
  • Ended Firefox Linux support for processors older than Pentium 4 and AMD Opteron
Update:

To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu, then pick "About Firefox."  Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu. If you do not use the English language version, Fully Localized Versions are available for download.

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