Archive for Thursday, September 6, 2025

Fx 3: Downloading Across Sessions Coming

Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2025 by El Guru in Blogs, Firefox, Fx 3.0, Mozilla News

The upcoming Fx 3 M8 (Milestone) release due out later this month will allow users to not only pause and resume downloads, but do so across sessions. Currently, if you are downloading a large file and need to shut-down Firefox your choices are either wait until the file is done downloading or shut down Firefox [...]

New Fx ‘First Run’ Page

Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2025 by El Guru in Firefox, Fx 2.0, Mozilla News

Mozilla has finally updated the page Firefox displays when you launch for the very first time (or start with a new profile). According to Percy at Mozilla Links, “But it happens to be very important for Mozilla’s goal to increase user retention, so a team was formed to improve the previous version and create a [...]