Mozilla Firefox 36.0 arrives February 24, 2015

Feb 15, 2015 00:50 GMT  ·  By

Only ten days from today, on February 24, Mozilla will upgrade its ever-popular Firefox web browser to version 36.0, a release that won't bring the highly anticipated native HTML5 playback on YouTube, according to a recent discussion on the Mozilla bug tracker, but will finally allow users to sync their new tab page’s pinned tiles across all of their devices where Mozilla Firefox is installed.

This is probably one of the most anticipated features of Mozilla Firefox. I was dreaming for this for so long and I still can't believe it will happen, as I was always frustrated by the fact that I could not have the same pinned tiles on all of my computers where Firefox was installed.

Mozilla Firefox 36.0 will also have a number of HTML5 improvements, various new tools for developers to play with, numerous under-the-hood enhancements, and promises to fix unexpected logouts from Facebook or Google that occurred after application restart.

Currently, the web browser is in development, with a Beta 9 build released to testers on February 13, 2015, which is most probably the last Beta release before the final version gets out. We've tested it, and we can confirm that native YouTube HTML5 playback is disabled. Sorry guys!

Anyone can download Mozilla Firefox 36.0 Beta 9 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, if they want to give it a spin, but keep in mind that it is an unstable version and it should not be installed on production machines.

Firefox 36.0 Beta 9 Changelog