Windows 7: Latest Firefox Released for Windows

Brink · 01 Dec 2015

Latest Firefox Released for Windows

Information

Firefox Release Version: 59.0.2
Release Date: March 26, 2018

32-bit and 64-bit Download Page: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser - Download Firefox in your language - Mozilla

Release Notes: Firefox Release Notes

Fixed

Invalid page rendering with hardware acceleration enabled (Bug 1435472)
Windows 7 users with touch screens or certain 3rd party desktop applications which interact with Firefox through accessibility services may experience random browser crashes. Known 3rd party applicatioins with issues: StickyPassword, Windows 7 touch screen. (Bug 1424505)
Browser keyboard shortcuts (eg copy Ctrl+C) don't work on sites that use those keys with resistFingerprinting enabled (Bug 1433592)
High CPU / memory churn caused by third-party software on some computers (Bug 1446280)
Users who have configured an "automatic proxy configuration URL" and want to reload their proxy settings from the URL will find the Reload button disabled in the Connection Settings dialog when they select Preferences/Options > Network Proxy > Settings... (Bug 1445991)
URL Fragment Identifiers Break Service Worker Responses (Bug 1443850)
User's trying to cancel a print around the time it completes will continue to get intermittent crashes (Bug 1441598)
Broken getUserMedia (audio) on DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Video chat apps either wouldn't work or be always muted (Bug 1444074)

Information

Firefox BETA Version: 60.0
Release Date: March 14, 2018

32-bit and 64-bit Download Page: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser - Download Firefox in your language - Mozilla

Release Notes: Firefox Release Notes

New

The policy engine is now available to customize Firefox deployments in Enterprise environments (more details on https://wiki.mozilla.org/enterprise)
Added support for Web Authentication, allowing the use of USB tokens for authentication to web sites
Locale added: Occitan (oc)
The new CSS engine introduced in Firefox Quantum (57.0) is now used for the browser's user interface, in addition to web content.

Changed

On Windows, the shortcut for entering Reader View has changed to F9, for better compatibility with keyboard layouts which use AltGr.
It is no longer possible to have multiple bookmark keywords for the same url, unless the request has different POST data.
Enhanced camera privacy indicators: Firefox now turns off your camera when you face-mute on web-sites that use your camera, turning off your camera light so you don't have to wonder if the site is still recording you. The light will come back on whenever recording resumes.

Developer

Responsive Design Mode now offers explicit control over whether the page should reload.
Developers can now use promises within IndexedDB transactions

Information

Firefox Nightly Version: 61.0a1
Release Date: March 12, 2018

32-bit and 64-bit Download Page: Mozilla Firefox Web Browser - Download Firefox Nightly in your language - Mozilla

Release Notes: Firefox Nightly Release Notes

New

Tab warming was enabled for Nightly making tab switching more efficient in some cases. You can learn more about Tab Warming in this article

jamis · 04 Dec 2015

Installed it on 11/05/2015. No issues so far with my OS. v42.0.1 on Android is another story though. Crashes and stalls a lot.

Brink · 15 Dec 2015

New Firefox 43.0 released. See first post for more details.

Brink · 18 Dec 2015

New Firefox 43.0.1 released. See first post for more details.

FerchogtX · 19 Dec 2015

Well, I must congratulate Mozilla Team, this version is way better than previous iterations, now HTML5 is more stable, yah, my VGA is still blacklisted, but you just tweak a pair of config values, and HD@60fps videos play smoothly. In general, the browser feels less sluggish.

Well done Mozilla!

Brink · 23 Dec 2015

New Firefox 43.0.2 released. See first post for more details.

jadinolf · 23 Dec 2015

Got it!

Never had a problem but it's installed.

Thanks

Baddog22556 · 23 Dec 2015

New versions and updates every day now? I just installed FF ESR 38.5.2 and now a new version
43.0.2. I know that is a complete new version install but still, why go through this almost daily lately?

Well that screwed it up pretty well so off to reinstall my previous version.

Now back to where I was with all addons I put in enabled just as I like.
Security be damned but I ain't achang'n again.

jamis · 24 Dec 2015

FF v43.0.2 installed on 12/23/15. No issues with anything, including plugins and addons. Even seems to load a bit quicker.

Baddog22556 · 24 Dec 2015

If everyone's system was configured the same then the same success or failure rate would be the same.
But still it is amazing how some software can accommodate so many varieties of hardware and
configurations of addons and such. I just don't have the patience to fix something that ain't broke.