[Nightly Update] Firefox 56.0 Comes With New Activity Stream Feature on New Tab Page

UPDATE 100:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build now comes with new activity stream feature enabled on new tab page. It was disabled in previous builds and could be activated using about:config preference. Now Mozilla has enabled it in newer Nightly builds.

Check out following article for more info about this feature:

[Firefox Tip] Enable Hidden Secret Activity Stream on New Tab Page

UPDATE 99:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build now comes with an updated Options (about:preferences) page which now contains 4 main categories. Previously there were 5 main categories. Now the “Downloads & Links” and “Updates” categories have been removed and a new category “Search” has been added.

Check out following topic for more information:

Firefox Gets New Updated UI for Options (About:Preferences) Page

You can disable the new UI and restore old classic Preferences page using following tutorial:

[Firefox Tip] Restore Old Classic Options (About:Preferences) Page

Thanks to our reader “Kay” for the update…

UPDATE 98:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build now uses Windows 10 accent color in the title bar or header instead of the previous default dark blue color as shown in following screenshot:

Thanks to our reader “Kay” for the update…

Check out following exclusive review article to read more about the new Photon UI:

[Review] The New Photon User Interface (UI) of Mozilla Firefox

UPDATE 97:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build comes with new “Density” feature in customize window to change the density of toolbar buttons:

It contains 3 options: Normal, Compact and Touch to change the toolbar buttons size.

Thanks to our reader “Kay” for the update…

UPDATE 96:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build comes with Dark Blue toolbar. Recently Mozilla changed the titlebar color from Gray to Dark Blue and now the whole header i.e. titlebar and toolbar are Dark Blue as shown in following screenshot:

Currently the work is in progress and changes will be made in upcoming builds.

Thanks to our reader “Kay” for the update…

UPDATE: Now the toolbar is back to normal in new build.

UPDATE 95:

The latest Nightly 56.0 build comes with a new compact main menu which shows available options vertically as shown in following screenshot:

You can disable the new compact menu and restore classic main menu with the help of following tutorial:

[Firefox Tip] Disable New Compact Menu (Photon UI) and Restore Classic Main Menu

Also Mozilla has added a new “Getting Started With Nightly” page which appears when you click on the Fox emoji/icon present on the top-left corner of new tab page:

The “Getting Started” page contains a “Hide the tour” checkbox on the bottom-left corner. If you select this option, it removes Fox face icon from the new tab page. In future, if you want to restore Fox face icon on new tab page, following tutorial will help you:

[Firefox Tip] Restore Fox Face Icon (Getting Started Tour) on New Tab Page

UPDATE 94:

The latest Nightly 55.0 build comes with a major UI change which is the new colored title bar. The title bar color has been changed to Dark Blue from previous Gray color as shown in following screenshot:

Thanks to our reader “arifin” for the update…

UPDATE 93:

The latest Nightly 55.0 build comes with a new “Firefox Screenshots” feature which allows you to take, save and share a web page screenshot.

Check out following tutorial for details:

[Tip] How to Use “Take a Screenshot” Feature in Mozilla Firefox

Also the “Page Actions” menu in the address bar now contains more options such as “Bookmark This Page” and “Send to Device“. Thanks to our reader “Kay” for this update…

UPDATE 92:

The latest Nightly 55.0 build comes with a redesigned UI which shows “Reload/Refresh” button before the address bar. It also shows a new “Page Actions” icon at the end of the address bar which contains “Copy URL” and “Email Link” options. The text in the address bar is also smaller than before.

UPDATE 91:

The latest Nightly 55.0 build comes with a new “Check For Updates” button in Options (about:preferences) page as shown in following screenshot:

UPDATE 90:

The latest Nightly 55.0 build comes with a new updated Options (about:preferences) page as shown in following screenshot:

For more details, check out following topic:

Firefox Gets New Updated UI for Options (About:Preferences) Page

UPDATE 89:

The latest Nightly 53.0 build comes with 2 new themes “Compact Dark” and “Compact Light” which can be enabled using Add-ons manager.

Check out following topic for full details:

2 New Themes “Compact Dark” and “Compact Light” Added to Mozilla Firefox

UPDATE 88:

In the latest Nightly 50.0 build, Mozilla has added a new option “Enable Container Tabs” in Firefox Preferences window to enable/disable Container Tabs feature quickly and easily:

You can learn more about container tabs feature at following link:

Mozilla Adds “Container Tabs” Feature to Firefox Web Browser

UPDATE 87:

The latest Nightly 50.0 build comes with a new redesigned UI for Search Bar which can be accessed by pressing “Ctrl+F” keys together. The new UI highlights all occurrence of the searched word and also dims the whole page so that the user can easily look for the searched word.

UPDATE 86:

The latest Nightly 47.0 build comes with a new option “Show a touch keyboard when necessary” in Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Accessibility section.

Thanks to our reader “Kay” for the update…

UPDATE 85:

The latest Nightly 46.0 build comes with improved tracking protection feature. Previously, tracking protection was only available for Private browsing mode but now you can enable tracking protection for normal browsing as well.

Open Firefox preferences and go to Privacy tab and set “Use Tracking Protection” option to “Always” as shown in following screenshot:

Now open any website and you’ll be able to see the tracking protection in action by clicking on the Shield icon present in the beginning of the address bar as shown in following screenshot:

You can add any desired website to exception list to disable tracking protection for that website.

UPDATE 84:

The latest Nightly 46.0 build comes with a new UI for the built-in Profile Manager tool. You can access it by opening about:profiles URL in Firefox addressbar. The new UI is shown in following screenshot:

Thanks to our reader “alanl9” for the update…

UPDATE 83:

The latest Nightly 45.0 build comes with a new “Synced Tabs” option in Main Menu i.e. Hamburger-style (3 lines) Menu button as shown in following screenshot:

To use this feature, you must enable the option to sync tabs across all devices in Sync preferences.

UPDATE 82:

The latest Nightly 44.0 build also uses a new redesigned UI to show new updates notification message.

As you can see in the above screenshot, the updates notification UI is a little bit different than the previous UI. Also a small animation has been added when you click on the notification to download the new update or when you click on close button to cancel the notification.

Currently the UI seems little bit buggy as they are working on it but it shows that a new notification UI is coming in new Firefox versions.

UPDATE 81:

The latest Nightly 44.0 build comes with a new option “Do not disturb me” in Preferences window. The option is present in a new section “Notifications” under “Content” tab.

You can enable this option to get no notification from any website until you restart the browser. You can also add desired websites to exception list.

UPDATE 80:

The latest Nightly 40.0 build comes with Pocket service integration. A new button to save current webpage to your Pocket account has been added to the toolbar:

UPDATE 79:

The latest Nightly 40.0 build comes with an improved UI for Add-ons Manager or about:addons page as shown in following screenshot:

Thanks to our reader “Alan” for the update…

UPDATE 78:

Today I noticed a new feature “Reader View” in the latest Nightly 39.0 build. Mozilla has added 2 new buttons in the addressbar:

• Enter Reader View
• Add page to Reading List

You can use these buttons to view any webpage content in distraction-free reading mode where only the text of the main article is shown without any extra thing. In the Reader View/Reading Mode, you can change the font style, font size as well as the background color.

You can also add any website to Reading List to save them and read them later.

Quite similar to Edge aka Spartan web browser‘s Reading view and Reading lists features…

UPDATE 77:

Just noticed a new option “Play DRM Content” in the latest Nightly 39.0 build.

UPDATE 76:

The latest Nightly 38.0 build comes with an improved About:Config page UI.

It looks like a modern skin for the about:config page.

Thanks to our reader “Alan” for the update…

UPDATE 75:

The latest Nightly 37.0 build comes with a new improved Search UI. When you search for a term using search box, you get a new search interface as shown in following screenshot:

The new search interface is called One-Click Search. The search interface has been improved as well as some new buttons for different search engines have been added below the search suggestions.

A new Search tab has also been added into Firefox Preferences page which allows you to change default search engine. You can also show or hide desired search engine buttons which are shown below the search suggestions in new search interface.

Also Check:

How to Disable New One-Click Search Bar and Restore Classic Search Box in Mozilla Firefox?

UPDATE 74:

A few day back, in UPDATE 66 we told you about a new feature “Invite someone to talk” which was added in Nightly 33.0 build.

Now the feature has been improved a lot in the latest Nightly 36.0 build. The feature has been renamed to “Firefox Hello” and comes with a brand new UI.

Once you click on its toolbar icon, you get a call URL to share with your friends. You can also change your chat status to Available or Do Not Disturb.

UPDATE 73:

The latest Nightly 35.0 build comes with a new toolbar button called “Forget Browsing History” which helps users in quickly deleting cookies and browsing history of selected time period. At the moment users can select from 3 given choices: Last five minutes, Two hours and 24 hours.

UPDATE 72:

The latest Nightly 35.0 build comes with working e10s functionality. Mozilla has started testing of Electrolysis (e10s in short) functionality in the latest Nightly build.

When you launch the latest Nightly 35.0 build, you get following notification in addressbar to enable e10s functionality:

After restart, you’ll notice that tab titles are shown as underlined in e10s mode to distinguish it from normal mode:

You can also enable or disable Electrolysis aka e10s functionality using Firefox Preferences window:

Thanks to our reader Kyle for the update…

UPDATE 71:

In latest Nightly 34.0 build, Mozilla has added a few built-in themes to customize Firefox appearance. Users can apply these themes using Customize screen:

UPDATE 70:

In latest Nightly 34.0 build, Mozilla has moved “Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup” option to General tab of Preferences window.

UPDATE 69:

Recently we told you about “Share This Page” button which was added to Nightly 33.0 toolbar but at that time the button was not working. It was just a dummy button with no functionality.

Now in the latest Nightly 34.0 build, Mozilla team has added functionality to this button. Now when you click on “Share This Page” button, it allows you to add various social networking website icons such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc to Firefox and then you can click on those icons to immediately share the current webpage on those websites.

If you can’t see the “Share This Page” button in Nightly toolbar, check the button in Australis Menu.

UPDATE 68:

The latest Firefox 34.0 Nightly build comes with a new control menu to customize “New Tab” page appearance:

As you can see in the above image, it allows you to select New Tab page look from following options:

• Show your top sites (Include suggested sites)
• Show blank page
• Learn about New Tab

Thanks to our reader “Kyle” for the update…

UPDATE 67:

The latest Firefox 33.0 Nightly build comes with a new button “Share This Page” in toolbar:

Currently the button is not working. Its always remains disabled. It seems Mozilla has disabled the button for some reasons and the button will start working in upcoming Nightly builds.

UPDATE 66:

Mozilla has added a new toolbar icon “Invite someone to talk” in the latest Nightly 33.0 build. You can click on the icon and get a call URL to invite a friend to talk.

UPDATE 65:

The latest Nightly 32.0 build comes with an improved iconized context menu which shows basic icons such as back, forward, refresh, bookmark at the top:

Thanks to our reader “TheAslan” for the update…

UPDATE 64:

Mozilla has put a new option to enable or disable Title Bar in the latest Nightly 29.0 build.

How to Enable Titlebar Text and Icon in Mozilla Firefox 28 and Later?

UPDATE 63:

Mozilla has added a new option in the latest Nightly 28 build to directly launch Firefox in Windows 8 style Metro mode as shown in following screenshot:

UPDATE 62:

The latest Nightly 28 build comes with 2 new options in toolbar context menu:

• Add to Menu
• Remove from Toolbar

These new options appear when you right-click on titlebar or toolbar.

“Add to Menu” option adds the toolbar button to “Customize and Control” menu previously known as orange Firefox button.

“Remove from Toolbar” option deletes the button from toolbar.

Nice and useful addition by Mozilla.

UPDATE 61:

The latest Nightly 28 build comes with a new Australis UI.

Check out our exclusive review of Australis UI:

[Review] The New “Australis” UI of Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

UPDATE 60:

UPDATE: The search bar has been moved back to bottom in newer builds.

Another interesting UI change in latest Nightly 25.0 build! Mozilla has moved the search bar to top in latest Nightly build. In previous Firefox versions, the search bar used to show at bottom but now it has been moved to top as shown in following screenshot:

The search bar is used to find text in webpages. It can be accessed by pressing “Ctrl+F” keys together.

UPDATE 59:

The latest Nightly 25.0 build comes with new “Automatic Update” options which allow you to automatic update Firefox for Desktop as well as its Metro app for Windows 8.

UPDATE 58:

“Close Tabs to the Right” option is a useful feature present in Google Chrome web browser which allows users to close all tabs present at the right-side of the selected tab. This option was missing in Mozilla Firefox but now it has been added in the latest Nightly build.

A confirmation dialog box is shown if you click on the option.

UPDATE 57:

Mozilla has released first alpha build of upcoming Firefox 24.0 version to the Nightly channel.

UPDATE 56:

The latest Nightly 23.0 build comes with a new bookmark icon in toolbar which lets you access bookmark options as well as allows you to instantly bookmark a page.

UPDATE 55:

In latest Nightly build Mozilla has removed the options to enable or disable SSL and TLS protocols. These options were present in “Advanced -> Encryption” tab of Firefox preferences window but now they are no longer present.

UPDATE 54:

Mozilla has removed a few unnecessary options from Firefox 23.0 preferences window. More options will be removed in future builds.

Check out following topic for more details:

Mozilla to Remove Several Unnecessary Options from Firefox Preferences Window

UPDATE 53:

The latest Firefox 22.0 Nightly build comes with a new tab “Services” in Add-ons Manager (about:addons) which allows you to manage social API easily and quickly.

UPDATE 52:

Mozilla has released a testing build of its upcoming Metro version of Firefox for Windows 8. The latest Nightly build installs a new Metro version of Firefox in Windows 8 computers. You can launch and test it using the Start Screen in Windows 8.

You can read more about this version at following link:

How to Use Mozilla Firefox Metro Version in Windows 8?

UPDATE 51:

Latest Firefox 21.0 Nightly build comes with new options to customize tracking settings. When you open Nightly preferences, you see 3 new options in “Privacy” tab as shown in following screenshot:

PS: If any of your favorite extensions is not working in a nightly build, you can follow instructions given in following topic:

How to Fix Broken Incompatible Extensions in Mozilla Firefox Newer Versions