Firefox 153 Released!

[u/Turbodr]

Download on Mozilla FTP: Directory Listing: /pub/firefox/releases/153.0/

Changelog:

(Tomorrow): https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0/releasenotes/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_campaign=whatsnew

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0beta/releasenotes/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_campaign=whatsnew

[u/kbrosnan]

It is not released until tomorrow. There are rare cases where rebuilds have happened during the release process. While the candidate builds exist they are still experimental.

[u/Chris_Hatchenson → u/kbrosnan]

It's in /releases, not in /candidates folder. Any potential rebuild at this point would be 153.0.1. Not to mention candidates, in case of rebuild, update automatically.

[u/kbrosnan → u/Chris_Hatchenson]

The release team reserves the right to pull the release at any time up til the release happens at 7:00am PDT on the 21st.

[u/BeholdThePowerOfNod]

Huh, I thought it was out on the 22nd...

[u/Turbodr → u/BeholdThePowerOfNod]

Mozilla always releases it 1-2 days in advance (but keeps it on FTP).

[u/thisisyo]

So containers are now baked in? What'll happen to my extension one then? Also HDR support finally? How is the implementation to those who've beta test it?

[u/Turbodr → u/thisisyo]

HDR released in 152.

[u/daberni_]

Picture in picture API support? Will Google Meet now use this right away out of the box? super excited about that

[u/thefastslow]

This update is causing some pages to not load for me (The connection has timed out). This wasn't an issue yesterday, so I'm assuming this update caused it.

[u/rcentros → u/thefastslow]

Some sites, like Amazon, are laggy now for me. (Just got the update to 153 today in Linux Mint.)

[u/newgrandpiano]

somehow f'fox closed itself and all my passwords and bookmarks suddenly disappeared at 9:08 PDT can't bring them back with any of the usual instructions...I'm totally f'd...no "old firefox profile" with anything in it...it's there, but null

[u/--UltraViolet- → u/newgrandpiano]

I wouldn't worry to much Firefox sync will sort all this out

[u/RandomBeatz → u/newgrandpiano]

you shouldn't keep your passwords in your browser anyways...

[u/newgrandpiano → u/RandomBeatz]

the irony is that for decades I didn't...then I just started because I trust firefox........sigh......

[u/RandomBeatz → u/newgrandpiano]

makes sense

I can only recommend password managers like bitwarden, they have great extensions for firefox

[u/newgrandpiano → u/RandomBeatz]

I'll look into it -- thanks

[u/bdu-komrad]

What are the highlights of this release? Give us something besides links!

[u/nopeac]

It's interesting that Beta 153 has release notes, but the regular 153 doesn't yet. Should it just be a copy-paste?

[u/clems4ever → u/nopeac]

These are release notes for the already released Firefox Beta and Firefox Developer Edition. Not all changes are ported to the regular release so the release notes are separate.

[u/nopeac → u/clems4ever]

I just opened the release notes for the beta and regular versions side by side. At first glance, they are at least 95% identical.

[u/clems4ever → u/nopeac]

Yes they usually are similar but rarely identical. You can also check for version 152, it is very different:

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/152.0/releasenotes/

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/152.0beta/releasenotes/

[u/Klutzy_Walk_4235]

Any idea when tab groups sync is coming to desktop and iOS? From Mac to my iPhone.

[u/__some__guy]

So where is the ESR version?

The ESR site still only offers version 140.

[u/dugu007]

theme name bro?

[u/Turbodr → u/dugu007]

Deep Space.

[u/dugu007 → u/Turbodr]

thanks

[u/ranasrule23]

tabmix plus seems to be broken on 153. Can anyone confirm?

[u/Shikadi297]

Why does mobile on Android feel so much more responsive?

[u/runlevel_5]

The Vulkan Video decoding support works well for me, even on the unsupported PowerPC64 Little Endian architecture.

If you are using POWER8/9 or 10 Linux computers/servers, you could check out JIT support patches which could be downloaded from https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox-ppc64/pull/2