Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Mozilla Firefox Version 90.0 Released with Security Updates

  FirefoxMozilla sent Firefox Version 90.0 to the release channel today.  The update includes eight security updates of which five (5) are rated high and four (4) are rated moderate.

Firefox ESR was updated to Version 78.12.

 

High

 


Moderate

 

 

New
 

  • Print to PDF now produces working hyperlinks
  • Version 2 of Firefox’s SmartBlock feature further improves private browsing. Third-party Facebook scripts are blocked to prevent you from being tracked, but are now automatically loaded “just in time” if you decide to “Log in with Facebook” on any website.

 

Changed
 

  • The "Open Image in New Tab" context menu item now opens images and media in a background tab by default. Learn more
  • Most users without hardware accelerated WebRender will now be using software WebRender.
  • Improved software WebRender performance
  • FTP support has been removed


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.


References

Security Updates
Release Notes
Rapid Release Calendar


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