Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

[Eddie99]

One last response on this. The 'percentage' of people who 'used' it - is anomolous as most people who used it would have disabled any and all telemtry identifying what/where/why/when they were using in terms of fingerprinting because they were more privacy focused. Indeed if they could tell how many people were using it regardless of settings then they had anti-privacy telemetry (not saying they did)

It's a valid point, people who turn on strict fingerprinting protection may be more likely to turn off the privacy-preserving analytics option than normal users, so the true percentage might be higher than 0.5%, but I'd still assume it's very small because it's just plain annoying to use. I don't really understand why a browser not having a niche feature is a point of controversy though, Firefox and Brave are really designed to be daily use browsers with good usability and privacy, if you want the absolute best privacy you'd use something like Tor or Mullvad browser.

 

[MarcLister]

Firefox 148 released.

Changelog

Spoiler

148.0 Firefox Release

February 24, 2026
Version 148.0, first offered to Release channel users on February 24, 2026

    Previous Firefox 147.0

New

    Added an AI Controls section to Settings for managing AI-enhanced features. Learn more.

    image for AI controls in Settings

    Firefox now has improved support for screen readers accessing mathematical formulas embedded in PDFs.

    Remote improvements are now decoupled from telemetry requirements in Firefox Settings. You can now opt into receiving remote browser changes even if you have opted out of sharing telemetry or participating in our experimental studies.

    Firefox Backup is now available on Windows 10 to users who also use the “Clear history when Firefox closes” capability. Backups will not include any data which is set to be cleared when Firefox is closed.

    The following languages are now available for translation:
        Translation into and from Traditional Chinese.
        Translation into Vietnamese.

    New Tab wallpapers will now appear on new container tabs as well as new default tabs.

Fixed

    Fixed an issue where a language pack could become disabled after a major update, causing Firefox to display in the wrong language.

    On Windows, dragging a downloaded image to Adobe Illustrator now correctly inserts the image instead of its URL.

    Various security fixes.

Developer

    Developer Information

Web Platform

    The initial about:blank document is now Web-compatible. If the first navigation of a browsing context goes to about:blank, it completes synchronously and is no longer replaced by a second parser-generated document.

    Service worker support for WebGPU has been added, making it available in all worker contexts. Service workers allow WebGPU to run in the background, which is particularly useful for extensions and other pages that can meaningfully share resources across multiple tabs and time periods.

    Firefox now supports the Iterator.zip() and Iterator.zipKeyed() methods from the joint iteration proposal. This allows zipping together underlying iterators into an iterator over values grouped by position, similar to zip in many other languages.

    Firefox now supports the Trusted Types API, which is primarily aimed at preventing cross-site scripting attacks.

    Firefox now supports the Sanitizer API, which provides new methods for HTML manipulation. The element.setHTML() method enables developers to insert HTML content similarly to element.innerHTML, but without the security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS). A complementary method, document.parseHTML(), is also available for parsing HTML safely.

    Firefox now supports the location.ancestorOrigins attribute.

    Firefox now supports the NavigationPrecommitController.addHandler() interface of the Navigation API. This allows registering a post-commit navigation handler during the pre-commit phase, to allow a multi-step navigation process.

    Firefox now supports the position-try-order property as part of CSS Anchor Positioning, controlling the order of fallback positioning attempts.

    Firefox now supports the CSS shape() function, which allows defining responsive free-form shapes in properties that take shapes like clip-path. Unlike path(), it uses standard CSS syntax, supports various CSS units, and allows mathematical functions.