It also has better hardware accelerated video playback on Intel chips on Linux, so you might be able to detect smoother video and lower CPU utilization.Īnother newly added feature is what Mozilla is calling quarantined domains, which restricts add-ons from running on certain websites – but if this bothers you, you can disable it in about:config. Chrome has supported this for years, and we missed it when using the Fox. One of the only immediately visible new features is that you can open a new tab with the contents of the Linux middle-click–to–paste function that we described yesterday. The Mozilla What's New page is particularly stark. Otherwise, this latest browser is a relatively unexciting but solid build - which is probably what you want from a long-term support version. It worked a treat installing Monterey onto an old Dell Latitude, but unfortunately that machine's Wi-Fi card is unsupported.)

(Yes, we do know about Open Core Legacy Patcher, and we are considering giving it a whirl to try to get that machine at least up to Catalina. This vulture still has a 2011 Mac mini in daily use which can't officially run anything newer than 10.13, so this is good news for some of us. Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offlineįor most people, that means that Firefox is now your last best hope for a current web browser for these aging OSes.FYI: Tor Browser is very much still a thing and getting updates.Mozilla Developer Network adds AI Help that does the opposite.Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad.This will almost certainly mean that all the other Chrome-based browsers will now drop support too: Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave et cetera. The current version of Google Chrome, 114, does still run on Mac OS X 10.13 'High Sierra' and 10.14 'Mojave', but displays a banner to warn users that this is the final version for those operating systems. Firefox 115 also still runs on older versions of Apple's macOS, back to 10.12 'Sierra'.

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