Firefox 105 Released: Here’s What’s New

Mozilla published updates for Firefox Stable and Firefox ESR on September 20, 2022. Firefox 105 Stable and Firefox 102.3 ESR are the two new releases available now.

The main improvement in Firefox 105 is to better handle low memory situations on Windows and Linux, which leads to fewer crashes.

Firefox development versions receive updates around the same time. Firefox Beta and Developer versions are moving to Firefox 106, and Firefox Nightly to version 107.

Executive Summary

• Firefox 105 and Firefox 102.3 ESR fix security issues.
• Firefox 91 ESR is no longer supported. Firefox 91.x ESR will be upgraded to Firefox 102 ESR automatically.

Download and update Firefox 105

Firefox 105 Stable updates will be available on September 20, 2022. Note that it may not be available when reading this article, as it is published as early as September 20.

Most Firefox installs receive the update automatically thanks to the update feature built into the browser. The update may not happen right away though. Users can select Menu > Help > About Firefox to perform a manual check for updates.

Firefox displays the installed version and checks for updates. The found updates will be downloaded and installed.

Direct downloads are also available, follow the links below to the Mozilla download site to download the new version of the browser.

Firefox 105.0 New Features and Improvements

Firefox 105 is a smaller version which is a bit light on new features. One of the major changes in Firefox 105 is that Mozilla was able to significantly reduce the number of browser crashes due to Windows running out of memory in the release.

A fairly simple sounding tweak ensures that the main process of the browser is not compromised when the system runs out of memory. Instead, content operations are first on the chopping block to free up memory. Killing the main process kills the entire browser, while terminating content processes only disables the web page that is open in it.

Similarly, Mozilla notes that it has improved the out-of-memory behavior of Firefox on Linux as well:

Firefox on Linux is less likely to run out of memory and runs more efficiently for the rest of the system when memory is running low.

Other changes and fixes

• The print preview dialog has an option to print only the current page directly from it.
• On Windows touch devices, Firefox now supports swiping to move between touch gestures (two fingers on the touchpad have been swiped left or right to make history backward or forward).
• Improved touchpad scrolling on macOS.

Developer

• Searching in large arrays is twice as fast in Firefox 105 thanks to replacing the array, including and array.indexOf with an improved SIMD version.
• Firefox is compliant with the User Timing L3 specification.
• Firefox supports split service workers in third-party contexts.
• Added support for defining firmware scripts using scripting.
• The TextDecoderStream and TextEncoderStream interfaces are now supported, and are part of the Encoding API,
• Offscreen Canvas DOM API support with full context and font support

Enterprise changes

known problems

Nothing is included.

Security updates/fixes

Security updates are revealed after the official release of the web browser. find information Posted here after his release.

prospects

The release data for Firefox 106 is October 17, 2022. Firefox ESR 102.4 will be released on the same day.

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