Firefox’s greatest redesign in years simply landed with Nova
What’s new in Firefox 157?
Now that Firefox has adopted a two-week launch cycle, main new options are rising fewer and farther between. With Firefox 157, the main focus is on the brand new Nova design, which has closely rounded corners and refined shade gradients on surfaces. You’ll discover 12 themes, every in mild and darkish variants.
Mozilla has additionally introduced again the favored Compact Mode, which teams parts collectively to save lots of area—nice for smaller screens.
You may be taught extra concerning the Nova redesign and what it entails on this announcement put up by the Mozilla workforce.
Safety fixes in Firefox 157
Within the safety advisory for Firefox 157, Mozilla lists 76 vulnerabilities which have been mounted, 30 of which have been found and reported by exterior safety researchers.
Mozilla classifies 38 vulnerabilities as excessive danger, 29 as medium danger, and 9 as low danger. Amongst them, 32 are use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities, a few of which may very well be exploited to inject and execute code, and 15 of which may very well be exploited to flee the browser sandbox.
Firefox ESR updates
Along with Firefox 157, Firefox ESR releases 153.4.0, 140.17.0, and 115.42.0 are additionally now obtainable. Nevertheless, the latter are solely obtainable for Home windows 7 and eight.1 and macOS 10.12 to 10.14 till March 2027.
