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Firefox 94 Brings Updated Homepage on iOS, Battery Saving Mode on Mac

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Firefox today released Firefox 94 for iOS devices, which introduces a new homepage design that adds several quality of life improvements to the browser. Firefox says that the new features are designed for "short bursts of online interactions that are constantly interrupted by life."

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The update adds a feature that jumps back to the last open active tab so you don't lose what you were browsing when you close the app, and recently saved bookmarks are easier to find and get to.

All of your recent searches are also now grouped by topic, so you can return to something you were researching with just a tap.

Firefox is also planning to add a way to get rid of tabs that are no longer relevant to you. When this feature releases on iOS in the coming months, tabs you have not visited in the last 14 days will be moved to an inactive state where they're still viewable, but they no longer clutter the tab view.

On the desktop, Firefox 94 adds 18 new themes to choose from with six new limited-time seasonal colorways, and it uses Apple's low power mode for fullscreen video on YouTube and Twitch to extend battery life for long viewing sessions.

There's also a new Site Isolation feature to protect Firefox users against side-channel attacks like Spectre.

The iOS version of Firefox can be downloaded from the App Store, and the Mac version can be downloaded from the Firefox website.

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Hopefully they didn't do too much under the hood. Firefox is capable of playing 4K on my Mac Pro 5,1, utilizing the GPU, Something Apple's safari won't do without some fixing under the hood. Firefox has been a great browser on all my devices, using a lot less memory than Chrome, has less ads than Chrome without extra plugins needed, and is fast!
 
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Nice to see another update.

"The update adds a feature that jumps back to the last open active tab so you don't lose what you were browsing when you close the app"

Not sure what the meaning of this is. Firefox has had a setting for opening on the last open browsing tab for I don't know how long. Maybe their making this the default now as previoiusly it was a setting you had to change?
 
Well nice to see updates but it is still lacking HDR support especially now with the new Macbook Pro XDR screen started to truly take advantage of the HDR contents.

I just can't go back without it.
 
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The battery saving mode is a great idea. I'm surprised they still haven't updated the icon for Macs to go with the square shape most other icons have.
 
Stunning_Sense4712 said:
Who even uses Firefox anymore? Safari and Chromium based browsers tend to run better than Firefox.
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You would be surprised. I do and have no desire to "learn" Safari especially after the dumpster fire that was Safari over the last few recent months. And Chrome has me scratching my head why anybody would use it after all the negative reports pertaining to Chrome on mac.
 
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Martyimac said:
You would be surprised. I do and have no desire to "learn" Safari especially after the dumpster fire that was Safari over the last few recent months. And Chrome has me scratching my head why anybody would use it after all the negative reports pertaining to Chrome on mac.
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Also, from what I've seen recently with the new macbok pros, Firefox plays embedded videos without spiking the "windowserver" process turning my laptop into a heating blanket.
 
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Stunning_Sense4712 said:
Who even uses Firefox anymore? Safari and Chromium based browsers tend to run better than Firefox.
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As others have said, Firefox is far better on memory management, always has been. It's typically been worse on CPU management however (loves to consume cycles for tabs in the background), so here's hoping this battery-saving mode does something for that.
 
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Stunning_Sense4712 said:
Who even uses Firefox anymore?
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People who don't want to see a Chromium world like when we had an Internet Explorer 6 world.

Maybe you weren't around back then?

www.theverge.com

Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6

Chrome-only sites are a problem
www.theverge.com www.theverge.com

Firefox has been my primary browser through every iteration since the Netscape Navigator days followed by the Mozilla suite.

I've tried just about every other browser out there (Safari, Chrome, IE, Edge, Opera,...), but none are as customizable or have the extension support of Firefox.
 
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I use Firefox on my Mac Book. I really don't want these features. I only keep 1 tab open - when an site opens a second one I do my thing and then close that tab. Hope this doesn't mean extra work
 
I think it's always good to have a backup browser. Not even necessarily for sites with compatibility issues (which is fewer and fewer) but to have a separate browser for certain tasks. I do all of my banking and sensitive stuff in Firefox and Safari for all of my other browsing.

I'm a fan of Firefox and while I know this is a little thing, I sure wish they'd update to a modern macOS icon already. Their the last frequently used application I have who remains inconsistent.
 
Great browser. The power of open source. I would have preferred to use Safari entirely, but certain things and add-ons just don't work there, so Firefox it is for me. Btw I never get why people hype Chrome so much, can someone explain me? Was there an era where it was truly faster? For what I know
1) It's resource hungry
2) It's Google
Those two reasons alone should be sufficient to avoid it.
 
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Stunning_Sense4712 said:
Who even uses Firefox anymore? Safari and Chromium based browsers tend to run better than Firefox.
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Firefox can send any link, as a tab to another device, from anywhere on iOS from the universal Share menu. Chrome needs you to open it in Chrome first and then send the tab to other devices.

That and the fact that uBlock Origin will continue working on Firefox.
 
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