Mozilla has updated "Firefox" web browser to version 57.0 which has been named as "Firefox Quantum". It comes with following new features and updates:
- New "Photon Design" UI (User Interface)
- 2x faster than previous versions due to completely new browsing engine
- Unified (combined) address and search bar
- Downloads button on toolbar is now set to auto-hide
- Revamped new tab page
- New preference to always open bookmarks in new tabs
- New updated UI for Options (about:preferences) page
- New Fox face icon on New Tab page which launches "Getting Started with Firefox" tour
- New "Firefox Screenshots" feature to take web pages screenshots and save them locally or online
- Complete visual refresh of both the Light and Dark DevTools themes to match the new visual style
- Firefox now exclusively supports extensions built using the WebExtension API, and unsupported legacy extensions no longer work
- Accessibility indicator now appears in the title bar when Accessibility services are enabled
- Users can now manage site data
- Smoother scrolling experience due to asynchronous scrolling
- Added support for Date/Time input
- AMD VP9 hardware video decoder support for improved video playback with lower power consumption
- The content process now has a stricter security sandbox that blocks filesystem reading and writing on Linux
- Middle mouse paste in the content area no longer navigates to URLs by default on Unix systems
- The "Share" button has been removed from the toolbar. You can get it back using share backported extension
- Various security fixes
- HTML5 improvements
- Developer improvements
You can download the new Firefox version including 64-bit build using following link:
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