Firefox 78.0.1 Fixes the Search Engines missing after the update Issue

Yesterday released Firefox 78.0 has broken search in Firefox and the list of search engines no longer appears in Settings after installing the update. Mozilla is quick to realize this and is releasing Firefox 78.0.1 today to address the issue. Firefox comes with these search engines: Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Amazon, and Wikipedia. Users use the …

Firefox lets you open PDFs with System Viewer

Firefox has taken a cue from Chrome and now offering the “Open in System Viewer” and ” Always Open in System Viewer” options for downloaded PDFs in its Download Panel. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (both legacy and new), and Firefox browsers have PDF Viewer built-in. Recently these browser vendors started working on improving and adding …

Firefox Preview Nightly receives 3 New Extensions Support

Back in April, Mozilla added five Extensions to Firefox Preview, today in the month of June, the company added three more recommended extensions –Decentraleyes, Privacy Possum, and YouTube High Definition – to the Nightly version. In October last year, Mozilla confirmed Fenix will support Extensions, but said, it will gradually release few extensions from the …

Firefox Experimental features can be enabled from Settings in Nightly

Similar to about: flags in Chrome, Mozilla may soon allow users to try out Firefox new features it is working on by visiting the ‘Firefox Experiments’ section in the about: preferences page. Rather than visiting about config and enabling a feature that is currently under development, Mozilla through ‘Feature Gates’ system to expose some features …

Firefox to allow users to disable sending of search terms to ISPs, Chrome has no fix for now.

Firefox and Chrome browsers have a privacy flaw where the user typed search terms are sent to DNS servers of ISPs, even when Private browsing mode or Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is used or DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is enabled. Mozilla with the upcoming version Firefox 79, offers a preference for users to control and …

Firefox Preview Beta for Android gets Voice Search and more

Soon to be available Firefox Preview 5.2 beta has got Voice Search support and shows Reader mode icon in the address bar. The beta also includes accessibility improvements and bug fixes. Firefox Nightly and Beta for Android already got Fenix, Firefox for Android stable will soon be replaced with Fenix. Recently, Mozilla has started experimenting …

New Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in App Mode in Firefox

Starting Firefox 79, If you select or set new Microsoft Edge to open PDFs in Firefox, then the PDFs will open in the Edge browser in a ‘toolbar-less window’ or ‘app mode’. Mozilla constantly updates and improves Firefox built-in PDF Viewer, PDF.js. Recently the company made the following improvements and changes to Firefox PDF Viewer. …