{"id":31768,"date":"2023-09-26T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=31768"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:24:26","slug":"firefox-118-and-115-3-esr-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2023\/09\/26\/firefox-118-and-115-3-esr-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 118 and 115.3 ESR released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\" title=\"Firefox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Dhputf4.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla\" width=\"65\" height=\"63\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/firefox-118-115-3-freigegeben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]As of September 26, 2023, the Mozilla developers have released the new Firefox 118 as well as the Firefox 115.3 ESR maintenance update. Some vulnerabilities were closed with the updates. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, along with the fixes and what's new.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Firefox 118.0<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg07.met.vgwort.de\/na\/19d095b7466e40dba76cd0d6784bd95c\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>Firefox 118 is a new development branch, which has the following innovations according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/118.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine.<\/li>\n<li>Web Audio in Firefox now uses the FDLIBM math library on all systems to improve anonymity with <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/kb\/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fingerprint Protection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The visibility of fonts to websites has been restricted to system fonts and language pack fonts to mitigate font fingerprinting in Private Browsing windows.<\/li>\n<li>Video Effects and background blur are now available to Firefox users on Google Meet! (Note: These effects have also been released retroactively to support Firefox versions back to Firefox 115.)<\/li>\n<li>Firefox Suggest users (US-only at this time) will now be able to see browser add-on suggestions right in the address bar based on their keywords.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several vulnerabilities rated as High have been closed in Firefox 118 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2023-41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). Notes for Enterprise users are available <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/kb\/firefox-enterprise-118-release-notes?_gl=1*1bxc62i*_ga*MTMwMTYxMDY4LjE2OTUzNjg3MDc.*_ga_MQ7767QQQW*MTY5NTczNzY0OS40LjEuMTY5NTczNzcyOC4wLjAuMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Firefox should update automatically, but can be downloaded from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/de\/firefox\/all\/#product-desktop-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this website<\/a> for various platforms (choose the variant from the list boxes shown).<\/p>\n<h2>Firefox 115.3 ESR<\/h2>\n<p>This is a maintenance update for Firefox. According to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/115.3.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> release notes,<\/a> Firefox 115.3 ESR0 fixes the vulnerabilities described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/security\/advisories\/mfsa2023-42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]As of September 26, 2023, the Mozilla developers have released the new Firefox 118 as well as the Firefox 115.3 ESR maintenance update. Some vulnerabilities were closed with the updates. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2023\/09\/26\/firefox-118-and-115-3-esr-released\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[872,580,1547,22],"tags":[530],"class_list":["post-31768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-security","category-software","category-update","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}