u/firefox

Hi everyone - You may have noticed several updates to the Firefox Settings for some time. As of today, we’ve officially updated the Settings in Nightly, and want to share the new UI and architecture with this community.

The goal of this redesign is to simplify the Settings, making it more intuitive to navigate and easier to customize your browser based on your preferences. Think, less digging through long pages to find what you need. A few things to expect:

• A reorganization of the Settings pages for improved discovery, including dedicated pages for a11y and passwords.
• No settings are being removed.
• Advanced settings and controls remain available.
• Your individual preferences will not change.

We’re rolling out these updates to make it even easier and clearer for you to customize your browser, one of Firefox’s most valued features. The plan is to bring the new design to Desktop Release starting with Firefox 152 in June. 

Hi everyone. Firefox 151 is rolling out today and we wanted to share a quick look at what’s new.

We’ve heard a lot of feedback around control and simplicity, especially on mobile, and this work is part of that. 

This release focuses on a few updates, including:

• Firefox’s free built-in VPN now supports location selection in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Canada.
• AI Controls are now available on mobile, giving you a single place to turn AI features off entirely or manage them individually.
• Shake to Summarize is expanding availability to iOS users in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Italian, and we’re starting to roll this out to English Android users.
• The new “Clear Private Session” button is a flame-shaped button that allows you to clear private browsing data and automatically starts a new private session, without needing to close your browser.

A bit more detail on these:

Location Selection for Firefox’s free built-in VPN is one of the most requested features from this community. Starting today, Firefox users in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Canada who enable Firefox’s free, in-browser VPN, have the flexibility to browse from any of the countries where we’ve launched VPN support.

AI controls give you more say in how (or if) these features show up in your mobile browsing experience. You can turn everything off, or just enable the features you actually want, with the ability to change this anytime.

Shake to Summarize lets you quickly get the gist of a page without digging through everything. On supported pages, you can shake your phone (or use the menu) and get a short summary. Depending on your device, this runs either on-device or securely via Mozilla's cloud-based AI, keeping privacy in mind.

The “Clear Private Session” button in Private browsing, located to the right of the address bar, allows you to automatically delete Cookies, browsing history, logins, and other session data from your private windows, without requiring you to close and reopen the browser.

We’re listening to your feedback and continuing the work to improve the Firefox mobile and desktop experience.

Feel free to read up on these updates and more.