Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Video calls which use WebRTC – Web Real Time Compression – now use hardware compression, and a bug which made video appear upside-down has been fixed, along with half a dozen others. The Firefox Suggest feature that tries to guess what you’re looking for now works in 16 more European countries. We suspect this may reduce how often the Reg FOSS desk shouts at his computer in moments of stress.
- ▪Video calls which use WebRTC – Web Real Time Compression – now use hardware compression, and a bug which made video appear upside-down has been fixed, along with half a dozen others.
- ▪The Firefox Suggest feature that tries to guess what you’re looking for now works in 16 more European countries.
- ▪We suspect this may reduce how often the Reg FOSS desk shouts at his computer in moments of stress.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 18 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Firefox 157.0 released — LWN.net (Linux Weekly News)
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| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:44:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); software Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin Liam Proven Liam Proven LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE REPORTER Published wed 30 Sep 2026 // 14:44 UTC READ MORE Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes 1 day ago Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake 11 days ago Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode 11 days ago Another Microsoft team admits…
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