14 DAY TRIAL // The Mozilla Firefox 68 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available to download for GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms ahead of tomorrow's official release.
Scheduled to be released on July 9th, 2019, the Firefox 68 web browser can be downloaded and installed right now from Mozilla's official download servers. So if you can't wait until tomorrow's official release, you can go ahead and download Firefox 68 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.
Mozilla Firefox 68 isn't an impress release as it only brings some minor improvements and not so exciting features. For example, it introduces a new reporting feature in about:addons to make it easier for users to report security and performance issues for add-ons and themes.
It also adds support for accessing the Firefox Account settings directly from the hamburger menu, implements a full page color contrast audit capable of identifying all the elements on a web page that fail the color contrast checks, and brings WebRender support for Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards.
Firefox 68 introduces Recommended Extensions program
Another interesting change in the Mozilla Firefox 68 release is the Recommended Extensions program, which lets users find high quality and secure add-ons for their web browser, which can be found via the about:addons page. This would protect users against malicious extensions that may harm their browsers.
Other than that, Firefox 68 adds a Firefox shortcut in the Windows 10 taskbar when you reinstall the web browser, unifies the bn-BD and bn-IN locales under a single Bengali (bn) localization, removes several unmaintained translations, and rewrites the AwesomeBar only with CSS, HTML, and JS.
"Differences include that results that overflow now have a nice fading effect instead of an ellipsis, and removing history items from the results now requires a different key combination on both Windows and Linux: Shift+DEL or Shift+Backspace," said Mozilla in the pre-release notes.