Mozilla Firefox 55 Web Browser Is Now Available to Download, Here's What's New

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

It’s not yet official, but the Firefox 55.0 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available for download on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Mozilla will make the release of Firefox 55 official on August 8, 2017, but you can get an early taste right now by downloading the binary or source packages for supported OSes from Mozilla’s FTP servers if you can’t wait to update your Firefox web browser through OTA updates.

And it just happens that we got our hands on the preliminary release notes that were seeded on the Beta channel since Firefox 55 entered development on June 14, 2017. Thirteen RCs later and the final release of Firefox 55.0 is now ready to be savored on your favorite operating system.

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 55

Probably the most exciting new feature of Firefox 55.0 is the ability for the web browser to (finally) restore browsing sessions that contain a huge number of tabs in an instant, but th… (read more)

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