Firefox 154 fixes 58 safety bugs, provides Nvidia GeForce Now streaming
What’s new in Firefox 154?
For Home windows customers, Firefox 154 now gives sport streaming through Nvidia GeForce Now, which might save on the price of costly {hardware}. Additionally restricted to Home windows for now’s the choice to decide on a distinct app icon for Firefox, as is already out there on Android and iOS. (macOS and Linux are set to observe later.) Choices embody the previous Firefox icons from 2004 and 2017, a rainbow-style icon (“Satisfaction”), and bonus icons.
On all platforms, skipping to a distinct a part of a video ought to now be quicker. And whereas the interpretation characteristic for net pages beforehand relied on data supplied by the web site itself relating to the language used, Firefox now performs its personal language detection. Which means content material from iframes is now additionally translated. If you happen to add web sites to the exception listing for deleting cookies and web site content material, they’re not robotically excluded from monitoring safety.
The free built-in VPN, launched with Firefox 149, continues to supply a collection of digital places—briefly prolonged to twenty-eight international locations till the top of August—with limitless information. The free VPN is at present out there to Firefox customers within the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Germany. As well as, the free VPN can now even be utilized in Firefox for Android (rolling out step by step) with iOS to observe quickly.
Safety updates in Firefox 154
Within the safety report for Firefox 154, Mozilla lists 58 resolved safety vulnerabilities, 54 of which had been found and reported by exterior safety researchers. Mozilla classifies 17 of those vulnerabilities as excessive threat. An extra 30 vulnerabilities are categorised as medium threat, with the rest categorised as low threat.
The final 4 entries within the safety report (CVE-2026-74987 to CVE-2026-74990) summarize an unspecified variety of internally found safety vulnerabilities, most of that are categorised as excessive threat, ensuing from programming errors in reminiscence administration. The vulnerabilities are grouped in accordance with which program variations are affected.
Firefox ESR browser updates
Along with Firefox 154.0, the ESR releases 153.1.0, 140.14.0, and 115.39.0 are additionally out there. Nevertheless, the latter are solely out there for Home windows 7 and eight.1, and macOS 10.12 to 10.14.
