What's in the latest Firefox upgrade? Nothing notable (again)

For a company whose future depends on attracting more users to its primary product, Mozilla has taken a lackadaisical approach to boosting Firefox’s features and functionality over the last four upgrades.

On Tuesday, Mozilla released Firefox 80, the fourth upgrade in a row to lack compelling new features visible to end users.

At the same time, Mozilla engineers patched 10 security vulnerabilities, including three rated as “high,” the organization’s second-most-serious threat ranking.

Firefox 80 can be downloaded for Windows, macOS and Linux from Mozilla’s site. Because Firefox updates in the background, most users receive the latest version when they relaunch the browser. To manually update on Windows, pull up the menu under the three horizontal bars at the upper right, then click the help icon (the question mark within a circle). Choose “About Firefox.” (On macOS, “About Firefox” can be found under the “Firefox” menu.) The resulting page shows that the browser is either up to date or displays the in-process refresh.

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