[Software Update] Mozilla Firefox 123.0.1 Stable Released, Here is What’s New and Fixed

UPDATE: Release of Mozilla Firefox 123.0.1 stable version to public.

Good news for Mozilla Firefox users! Mozilla has released Firefox 123.0.1 version to stable channel for Windows, Linux and Mac.

The latest Firefox version includes new features, security fixes, bug fixes and improvements to stability and performance.

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What’s New in Mozilla Firefox 123.0.1 Update

The latest version is a minor update for Mozilla Firefox 123.0 version which comes with following changes:

  • Fixed the Firefox Translation language indicator in the address bar displaying a colored square icon instead of the language code icon.
  • Fixed incorrect rendering of Canvas2D conic gradients colors on Windows.
  • Fixed a regression with the onChange event not firing when clearing the value of a textarea HTML field.
  • Fixed availability of system-level dictionaries for Linux users with Firefox installed as a Flatpak package.
  • Fixed a regression in the JavaScript JIT engine incorrectly inlining strings in some cases.
  • Fixed low contrast of text when selecting rows in the Developer tools’ Storage panel.

What’s New in Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Version

The new version of Firefox comes with following changes and enhancements:

  • Search Integration into Firefox View: Users can now search through all of the tabs listed under various section subpages such as Recent Browsing, Open Tabs, Recently Closed Tabs, Tabs from other devices, or History.
  • Broken Site Reporting Tool: If a website is having issues in Firefox but working fine in other browsers, users can now report Mozilla team about it via the Web Compatibility Reporting Tool. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
  • Built-in Translation Improvements: When translating web pages, the text in tooltips (i.e. titles) and text displayed in form controls (i.e. placeholder) are now also translated.
  • Address bar settings can now be found in Firefox Settings’ Search section.
  • Improved PGO optimizations for macOS ARM64 and Android.
  • Off-main-thread canvas on macOS, Linux and Android.
  • Security fixes and improvements
  • Various bug fixes and improvements
  • New group policies implemented
  • Developer improvements

NOTE: Firefox 116 and later versions do not support Windows 7/8/8.1 and Apple macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14 versions. (More Info)

MUST READ: Mozilla Firefox Newer Versions Changelog Article

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Known Unresolved Issues in Mozilla Firefox Latest Version

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox comes with following known issues:

  • Some machines with older AMD CPUs may see image thumbnails incorrectly rendered as all black in file dialogs. If this is the case, updating the graphics driver should address this issue.

Download Links of Mozilla Firefox Latest Version

You can download the new Firefox version including 64-bit build using following links:

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NOTE: This article is updated whenever a new version of Mozilla Firefox web browser is released. So keep checking this page regularly.

Useful Tips-n-Tricks for Mozilla Firefox Users

  • Rich Search Suggestions in URL bar: Firefox now displays image thumbnails and descriptions for search suggestions in address bar when provided by the search engine. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Firefox can now force links to always be underlined. This option can be enabled in the Browsing section of the Firefox Settings menu. (How-to Enable Guide)
  • On Windows, the mouse pointer will disappear while typing if the relevant Windows mouse properties system setting is enabled. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Native or built-in automatic translation feature: Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
  • Users may receive an error message “Some extensions are not allowed” on the extensions panel. It’s caused by a new back-end feature called “Quarantined Domains” to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns. (How-to Fix Guide)
  • On Linux, middle clicks on the new tab button will now open the xclipboard contents in the new tab. If the xclipboard content is a URL then that URL is opened, any other text is opened with your default search provider. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • A new preference devtools.f12_enabled is available that can be utilized to prevent the accidental use of the F12 key, which opens the DevTools toolbox. (How-to Guide)
  • New native or built-in Translations feature which is disabled by default and can be enabled using this guide.
  • Search terms kept in address bar: When you search for a word or text string using the address bar, Firefox will continue displaying the search term in the address bar instead of the webpage URL so that you can refine the search term while viewing your search results. Also, a new result menu has been added making it easier to remove history results and dismiss sponsored Firefox Suggest entries. (How-to Enable/Disable Search Terms)
  • You can now right-click on password field and select “Reveal Password” option to show the password. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Old method to remove “Extensions” button from the toolbar no longer works. A new working method has been added to our exclusive guide.
  • Windows native notifications are now enabled by default. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Firefox Relay users can now opt-in to create Relay email masks directly from the Firefox credential manager. You must be signed in with your Firefox Account. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • On macOS, Ctrl or Cmd + trackpad or mouse wheel now scrolls the page instead of zooming. (How-to Restore Guide)
  • Firefox View: A pinned tab allows you to find and open recently closed tabs on your current device, access tabs from other devices and change the look of the browser (with Colorways). (How-to Remove Guide)
  • The tabs search (drop-down arrow button) is now always visible in Firefox title bar (How-to Remove Guide)
  • Private browsing windows have been redesigned to increase the feeling of privacy. Dark mode is enabled by default. (How-to Restore Classic UI)
  • Now private browsing windows use separate Taskbar icon and you can pin private windows to Taskbar in Windows 10 and Windows 11. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • New dedicated Extensions menu button can be added to the toolbar (How-to Enable guide)
  • The “Make text bigger” accessibility setting in Windows now affects all the UI and content pages, rather than only applying to system font sizes. (How-to Fix Guide)
  • Now you can force Firefox to start downloads in TEMP folder again like previous versions. (How-to Guide)
  • New preference/flag available to restore classic system print preview dialog box again (How-to Guide)
  • The Firefox installer for Windows is now signed with a SHA-256 digest, rather than previous SHA-1. If you are planning to use Firefox setup installer on a Windows 7 computer, you’ll need to install KB4474419 update. (How-to Guide)
  • Newer Firefox versions come with Proton design UI with floating tabs, you can restore classic UI using this How-to guide.
  • New optimized download flow behavior which downloads files automatically (How-to Restore Classic Download Prompt)
  • Scrollbars on Linux and Windows 11 won’t take space by default i.e. will remain invisible. On Linux, users can change this in Settings. On Windows 10 and 11, you’ll need to enable scrollbars using “Settings app -> Accessibility -> Visual Effects -> Always show scrollbars” option as mentioned here. (How-to Restore Classic Scrollbars)
  • Firefox has a new focus indicator for links which replaces the old dotted outline with a solid blue outline. This change unifies the focus indicators across form fields and links, which makes it easier to identify the focused link, especially for users with low vision. (How-to Restore Dotted Outline)
  • Firefox Suggest feature displays sponsored ads and websites suggestions in address bar. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Firefox no longer warns you by default when you exit the browser or close a window using a menu, button, or three-key command. This should cut back on unwelcome notifications which is always nice. However, if you prefer a bit of notice, you’ll still have full control over the quit/close modal behavior. All warnings can be managed within Firefox Settings. (How-to Restore Guide)
  • Firefox now supports the new Snap Layouts menus when running on Windows 11.
  • Firefox now blocks downloads that rely on insecure connections, protecting against potentially malicious or unsafe downloads. (How-to Disable Guide)
  • “Compact mode” density option removed from Firefox customize window (How-to Restore Guide)
  • Search box on New Tab page now moves focus to address bar (How-to Restore Real Search box Guide)
  • New Skeleton UI feature which shows a blank or empty UI screen at startup (How-to Disable Guide)
  • The “Take a Screenshot” feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the URL bar. To take a screenshot, right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize. (How-to Guide)
  • “View Image” option replaced with “Open Image in New Tab” in image context menu (How-to Restore Guide)
  • To prevent user data loss when filling out forms, the Backspace key has been disabled as a navigation shortcut for the back navigation button. (How-to Restore Guide)
  • Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) update download support on Windows which allows Firefox update downloads to continue when Firefox is closed (How-to Disable Guide)
  • Firefox may show recommendations/suggestions for new features, services and extensions using new Contextual Feature Recommender (CFR) feature (How-to Disable Guide)
  • The Ctrl+Tab shortcut now displays thumbnail previews of tabs and cycles through tabs in recently used order. This new default behavior is activated only in new profiles and can be changed in preferences. (How-to Disable Guide)

More Information about Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

You can get full details about all the new features and changes present in Firefox in our exclusive Nightly update topic:

Mozilla Firefox Nightly (Testing Build) Updates

If you want to test drive Firefox web browser without installing it in your computer, you can try its portable version which doesn’t need installation:

Download Mozilla Firefox Portable Version

If any of your favorite extensions stops working in newer versions of Firefox, you can follow instructions given here to fix the issue and make them compatible again.

NOTE: If Firefox new version crashes in your Windows device, following guide should help you:

[Fix] Mozilla Firefox Crashing Problem on Windows

Published in: Mozilla Firefox, Software

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. You removed my duplicate tab keyboard shortcut option. IDIOTS! If you remove even one amazing useful item, it is NOT an improvement. It’s a fail. Give back the keyboard controls for duplicating a tab. CTRL + K

    NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Or, tell me how to undo this “update”

  2. Anyone heard when the major rendering problems of FF 59.0 are solved?

    I wonder why FF 59.0 is still online for download.

    I had to update my WEB pages to inform customers that they possibly need to downgrade to FF 58.0.2

  3. Those saying Kaspersky adds on are disabled that issue has already been addressed the updates are available

  4. Hi, I wonder if there is a way to remove the “Search google for” context menu item from Quantum. I already have a context search add-on that supports multiple search engines and i can do with out the default google one. Its just repetitive and i never use it.

  5. Hi VG! What is you choise in google crome vs mozila firefox. Give me a answer to what is the best web browser in both i was typed?

  6. ^^ Both are equally good. It depends upon personal experience. Try both and use the one which you like the most.

  7. Hi VG, just updated to Quantum 68.0 on my macbook pro, but now I can’t close windows by double clicking on the title bar… title bar is enabled through customise, and have set browser.tabs.closeTabByDblclick to true via about:config

    I’m at a loss… how do I reinstate this basic feature???

  8. hi,

    great tutorial … i did try FF 71 its good, big in installation (110 mb) size … but no support for multi tab row & tab mix plus extension not available … hope they include them in newer versions …

    thanx

  9. May 5, 2020 – firefox update —- Why the F___ do I now have to sign in to my email every 2 HOURS.
    Checking – stay singed in no longer works. HOW can I get this fixed, & why / how is it even possible that firefox messes with MY SETTINGS!!!!!!

    PLEASE advise how to fix on HP- windows 7

  10. ^^ Which email website are you using? Does this problem occur after closing Firefox and reopening it?

  11. Are the tabs going to flip back on top if I download 81.0? I have 75.0 and am tired of searching for patches to put the tabs on the bottom. Ready to give up on ff. Why can’t ff allow us to have our tabs on the bottom?

  12. Tabs-on-the-Bottom – broken again ??

    Last month I fixed the “userChrome” file to fix tabs in v.95 and that PC is still working on that file with v.97 update installed.
    Today I put a new install of v.97 on a PC which updated to Win11, and the same userChrome fix above is not working.
    Need suggestions as to what else I need to do to get my tabs fixed again.
    Thank you.

  13. ^^ Did you enable “toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets” flag to turn on userChrome.css support in new installation?

  14. Thank you for your previous reply. I enabled as instructed. Tabs are working properly on the the bottom again.

  15. In FF 98, userChrome to remove favicons from tabs:
    .tabbrowser-tab .tab-icon-image { display: none !important; }
    no longer works, although other mods (e.g. removing favicons from bookmarks toolbar) still do

  16. firefox-98.0 on Unbutu now takes 40 seconds to startup, even after I wiped ${HOME}/.mozilla and it used to start ‘instantly’ with 97.02.

    Why does firefox keep getting worse? They break everything and fix nothing 🙁 They broke rss, ftp, printing, tabs, and now apparently it has to do some extensive ET-phone home c**p. I want a web browser, not a spy that will do limited web browsing after 40 seconds of delay.

    The developers are on some mission to alienate everybody and apparently now they don’t even want to support browsing on a browser. I guess their new motto is “If it ain’t broke, break it!” and their goal is “If it works, remove the feature” and browsing used to work, so while they cannot really remove that they have decided to make it very hard to use. Yeah, s**k up all my RAM _and_ refuse to startup – nice…..NOT!

    Every new version needs more workarounds, more secret tweaks, and I’m must fed up with it. They were the last browser that could be built from source (realistically) and now firefox is not even a browser, it’s some kind of spyware. My home page is about:blank. Why in the h*ll do they need to phone home to display that? Probably because they gotta scan my disk and upload god-only-knows what to some telemetry b.s. database they sell to marketers. I used to recommend firefox. Now I have to admit even safari and edge are better – at least they can start up in a reasonable amount of time.

    Firefox is finally so bad that I boot a separate windows box and use chrome on that for web browsing. And no, I don’t want to run some snap with evil binary code in it. It’s better to just dedicate a machine for browsing than to attempt to run firefox on ubuntu. I get the feeling nobody can build a working firefox because the source that’s published isn’t the source used to build the ‘official’ binaries. What is that browser doing for 40 seconds? It’s running the code that isn’t in the published source code I suspect.

    A browser shouldn’t even open a network connection until I give it a URL, and then it should only connect to the sites I tell it to. It shouldn’t “check for whatever….” unless I explicitly tell it to.

  17. This latest update 100.0, closed all my 1700 tabs, and all my addons are gone. And I did not see any explanation in the above article that this may happen with the latest update and how to fix it. Can you please warn beforehand so the user is prepared, or do something so that tabs stay intact without closing after the update. What happened to my bookmarks, access to pages that I had bookmarked painstakingly in a addon. For gods sake get your act together, enough is enough.

  18. I installed Version 107 on the latest Windows 10 and have lost the little floating Search window. Lost it in Windows 11 also. It works fine in Version 106. I use ALT+E, Find in Page or CTRL+F and it’s lost on both. If I set the Search window into the URL bar the search characters do not show. Anybody got any ideas.
    Regards

  19. I found the problem. It’s the userChrome.css file instruction that moves the search box from the bottom to a floating box. I edit out the instruction and the box shows at the bottom. Now all I got to do if find another workaround.
    Regards

  20. It seems that with 111.0, you can NOT drag and drop files from download list to desktop. drag and drop to the browser itself still works. Is this intentional or …?

  21. TABS back on TOP again!!!
    Just updated to 113.00.1 and tabs are back on TOP…
    My chrome mod is still in place as well as stylesheet = true
    –What have they changed now to make my life miserable???
    Please post a fix as quickly as possible. Thank you

  22. So, how do you reorder the extensions listed in the extensions panel? This is supposed to be new to v.114, but I have yet to figure out how to do it.

  23. It seems common sense that you should also have an auto-save of all open tabs when IOS updates the firefox app. Many users have complained of losing their open work when this occurs and you can easily resolve it by having the first step in the update be a bookmark save of all open tabs.

  24. Per Mozilla, Firefox 118 was suppose to deliver “Encrypted Client Hello”. To be automatically enabled when enabling/selecting a DNS over HTTPS setting.
    However; this is not working when checked against various test sites. The following articles appear to indicate that FF needs additional config settings made but FF 118 has not done that (yet?).
    Pls look into.

    reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/13canhc/a_guide_on_how_you_can_enable_ech_and_http3_in/
    reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/xszzae/encrypted_client_hello_doesnt_seem_to_work/?rdt=51927
    groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/uv7PNrHUagA/m/BNA4G8fOAAAJ

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