Firefox 152.0.1
Mozilla has published Firefox 152, updating the Web browser with a rejiggered Settings appearance that provides streamlined organization and clearer groupings. The release improves support for more advanced cursor movement commands in macOS (including those relating to paragraph boundaries), enables you to mute browser audio from the address bar by typing “mute” (or “shush” or “sssh”), allows you to disable tracker blocking temporarily for a tab in Private Browsing windows, improves dragging images from Firefox to the desktop or Finder in macOS, and adds language translations for Basque and Galician. Version 152.0.1 was quickly issued to resolve an issue in macOS where choosing a PDF option from the system print dialog would send the job to your printer instead of saving a file. (Free, 153.4 MB, release notes, macOS 10.15+)
Already up to 150.0.3 as of June 24.
Version 15x of Firefox seems to be the most frequently updated version yet. Thankfully, the updates roll out quickly, but still it makes me wonder if that article about finding multiple vulnerabilities in v150 was true.
Any suggestions on FireFox alternatives?
I like Firefox because I find its extensions useful and can easily work with privacy settings; I tried LibreWolf and Waterfox but they are essentially the same things. Vivaldi does not suit my use, and I want to avoid Chrome-based browsers. Safari is okay but does not make cookie and history adjustment very simple.
Anyone tried Brave or Tor browsers?
I use Brave and Firefox. Brave is my preferred Chromium-based browser.
My anecdotal impression of the recent pace of Firefox updates has been that they’ve been mostly about fixing bugs that appeared in the latest releases, but of course they often include security fixes, too.
I recommend reading the release notes whenever there is a Firefox update.
It’s definitely true. The Mozilla people have pretty much said so in their release notes.
But I wouldn’t use this as a reason to go looking for an alternative. I have seen no reason to believe that Firefox is any more or less vulnerable than others.