I-Firefox Community Forum

Hi, upon seeing that Firefox 138 was available, I was surprised to see that my version of Firefox is still on 136. I'm on Kubuntu Oracular (24.10) and using the PPA at https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu oracular InRelease. After checking https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and filtering for the different Ubuntu releases, it seems that both Noble and the newer Plucky have 138 available, but Oracular didn't even get 137.

Is there a reason for this?

My computer will likely update to 25.04 in the relatively near future (there is currently an updater bug that's delaying the rollout), but I'm still curious why this is two versions behind.

Firefox i cant update my firefox so please update it for me and please dont make me lose anything please i really like firefox and i dont want my page to be stopped so please update it for me because i cant lose anything your sincerly Nariah,

Greetings

It has been 5 years since Chrome introduced tab grouping. Meanwhile, the devs decided to start working on AI instead of getting this done ASAP. My workflow is completely dependent on Firefox so I can't simply change to another browser, the extensions available are not useful for me and I really miss this feature. Since this feature appeared on Nightly I've installed it and my experience just got a lot better, however, Nightly is just too unstable for me. Therefore, is there any way that I can cherry pick from Nightly this one feature that's totally working to my stable Firefox build through the browser itself without having to go to git/source code?

I really wouldn't like to wait another don't know how many years so they can get this done. I guess that my question would also be useful for other features that people are interested, that were already developed and that haven't been released yet.

Hey guys,

I really enjoy using Zen, but whenever there's a new update, the browser seems to start up from the beginning, as in, my laptop has to confirm again if I want it to be my standard browser, the shortcuts that I'd made don't work anymore (cmd+T now pops up the search bar instead of opening a new tab, while my settings say that this shortcut is supposed to open a new tab). It has just happened often that whenever there's a new update the browser seems to be very confused, it doesn't seamlessly just blend the new updates into my already existing preferences. A while back (like 3 months ish?) you guys had a new update and I had to go through the whole thing of installation again of the browser, I had to choose if I wanted to import data from an old browser while I had already set Zen up way before, plus I had to choose the dark mode/colour preferences and all that stuff.

I really enjoy this browser when nothing is going wrong but there's so many stuff changing often and not blending seamlessly that it really messes with the user experience.

Hope this feedback is somewhat useful,

Best, Sophia

Ubuntu 24 LTS distro does not support the .deb package but has a SNAP for a ported version of Firefox. Instead, I installed direct Mozilla Firefox into /opt/firefox and run the Mozilla production release. Although as an ordinary user, Firefox will NOT let me use the internal update of Firefox under Help -> About Firefox, if I login as root and into a window environment such as Gnome, my /opt/firefox/firefox will do the About Firefox update internal to Firefox -- no apt involved. Mozilla has an apt repo and method to update Firefox, presumably via the Software Updater that can be run from a regular, not root, user window, perhaps asking for the sudo password. Which approach is better: internal Firefox "About Firefox" update in a root window, or using the .dep repo using non-root Software Updater?

Hi!

I have not thought about changes to Firefox and after speaking to someone I found out a potential change that I was not aware of.

I have not been able to find a definitive (except AI generated) answer to confirm or deny his claim that Firefox switched over to Chrome/Chromium's web engine.

My understanding is that they have always used their own being a FOSS alternative to major brands.

I use 133.0.3 (64bit) Mozilla Firefox for Arch Linux archlinux - 1.0 (right now but updates are very common)

Am I in reality using Chrome/Chromium just in different clothes, or is this still the same FOSS Firefox that I have been using for years?

As a side note, I did find out that the coding for Extensions/Add-ons have been updated to reflect the way that they are coded from Chrome/Chromium but that is not enough to give me a definitive answer as to the underlying interface.