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- Aug 18, 2026
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154.0 Firefox Release
Firefox 154 adds stronger Local Network Access protection for WebSocket connections, smarter tab grouping, Windows support for NVIDIA GeForce NOW, expanded local profile backups on macOS, faster video seeking, richer PDF and translation features, and new developer and CSS capabilities.
Version 154.0, first offered to Release channel users on August 18, 2026
New
Firefox's Local Network Access protections now extend to WebSocket connections. Websites that try to open a WebSocket to a device on the local network will now ask for permission first.
In Smart Window, Firefox can now suggest groups of related tabs and propose a name for each group.
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.
Firefox on Windows is now a supported browser for NVIDIA GeForce NOW, letting users stream supported PC games directly in the browser.
Local Firefox profile backups are now available on macOS in addition to Windows and Linux, and backups can be restored across all three platforms.
Sites can now be exempted from having their cookies and site data cleared on shutdown without also being exempted from tracking protection and other cookie restrictions.
The full-page Translations feature now translates
<iframe>content.The full-page Translations feature now runs language identification on all page loads, resulting in an improved experience for offering translations to users.
Windows users can now choose a different Firefox app icon in Settings. This is not yet available for MSIX installations, macOS, or Linux, but is coming soon.
The address bar now includes a Manage AI quick action that opens the AI controls in Settings.
Performing a hard reload on a page (holding Shift while clicking the Refresh button) now also clears and updates its cached favicons.
Fixed
Fixed an issue on macOS where closing a browser window could leave behind an invisible window that continued to capture mouse clicks over the area where it used to be.
Fixed an issue on Windows where an auto-hiding taskbar would not appear until the Firefox window had been minimized and restored after launch.
Fixed an issue where the Windows taskbar would appear in front of a full screen Picture-in-Picture window.
Fixed the Vertical Tabs sidebar staying visible in full screen mode. It now hides along with the toolbars and reappears when the cursor moves to the edge of the screen.
Fixed PDF documents not being scaled correctly in print preview when the Fit to Page Width option is used.
Various security fixes.
Changed
Video seeking is now significantly faster on all operating systems, making it quicker to jump to a point in a video.
Text selected in a PDF is now highlighted the same way as text on a web page, and the highlight color follows operating system settings such as high-contrast mode.
Firefox View is moving out of the toolbar by default for new profiles and for profiles where it hasn't been used recently. It can still be opened from List all tabs > View all tabs, or added back from the Customize toolbar menu.
Enterprise
You can find information about policy updates and enterprise-specific bug fixes in the Firefox for Enterprise 154 Release Notes.
Developer
The JSON Viewer now shows a breadcrumb path at the bottom for the selected entry.
Web Platform
Firefox now supports the text-box-trim and text-box-edge CSS properties, and the associated text-box shorthand. These properties control the leading space above and below text, enabling simpler and more consistent vertical spacing and alignment.
Firefox now supports the sibling-index() and sibling-count() CSS functions. These functions allow an element to be styled with calculations that use its index among its siblings and its total count of siblings (including itself), respectively.
Added a time picker user interface to
<input type="time">and<input type="datetime-local">, making selecting a time more accessible and intuitive.Added support for the No-Vary-Search HTTP response header for the HTTP disk cache. Servers can now declare which URL query parameters are irrelevant to the response, allowing Firefox to reuse cached resources across parameter variations and improving cache hit rates.
Firefox now supports new Iterator.prototype.chunks and Iterator.prototype.windows methods that allow consuming an iterator as either overlapping or non-overlapping subsequences of configurable size.
Firefox now supports Iterator.prototype.includes(), allowing developers to check whether an iterator contains a given value without first converting it to an array.
Firefox now supports the Iterator.prototype.join method, which allows joining an iterator into a string, similar to Array.prototype.join.
Community Contributions
With the release of Firefox 154, we are pleased to welcome the developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 32 of whom were brand new volunteers! Please join us in thanking each of these diligent and enthusiastic individuals, and take a look at their contributions:
Ale Camara [:ale]: 2054573
Original source
andra: 2022992, 2046118
andrea.distefano: 1470011
Anil Verman: 2040057
Benoit: 2047559, 2049316, 2050403
Brieuc Gommard: 2031346, 2049309
christopher.staite: 2037813
conor: 1988166
Cornelius | CE student: 2046119
Devin Rousso: 2052932
Diego: 2018728
elvyria: 2027522
Gabe: 2049141
Hagen: 2049264
Hillwood Yang: 2048250
Jaimukund Bhan: 2034642
Kafji: 2051493
Kometes: 1954212
Luiz Henrique Vieira: 2050546
Majed El-Barbari: 2040240
Marcelo Camargo: 2009295
Mayank Bansal: 2055744
muhammad shaikh: 2016932
Raimund Hook: 2050794
Rebekah: 2052857
Riza: 2044167
Ronak Sheth: 2048099
taylor: 1419649
Tim McNulty: 2052560
Yogeshdangal66: 2031348
Zehui Xu: 2028402
占旭哲: 1992363 - Aug 18, 2026
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Thunderbird 153.1.0esr
Thunderbird fixes Autoscroll icon arrows and includes security updates.
Fixed
Autoscroll icon was missing directional arrows in scrollable messages
Security fixes
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
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- Aug 18, 2026
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Thunderbird 154.0
Thunderbird adds attachment previews on macOS, a default list-view option for global search, Copy To support for message/rfc822 attachments, system tray mode, and Microsoft Graph for Microsoft 365, while also delivering visual and UX improvements, security fixes, and many bug fixes.
What’s New
Preview functionality for attachments on macOS
CMS message with AuthEnvelopedData can be decrypted properly in Thunderbird
Global search results can open in list view by default with new setting
"Copy To" folder context menu added for message/rfc822 attachments
Optional system tray mode that hides Thunderbird when the last window closes
Support for dragging message/rfc822 type MIME attachments to folder tree
Microsoft Graph enabled for Microsoft 365
Fixed
Remote content warnings appeared despite sender block exceptions being applied
Collapsed saved-search folders did not deselect their subfolders
Server-designated special folder flags could be removed until restart
Messages could render excessive trailing blank lines
Copying a message subject included the "Subject:" label in copied text
Moving IMAP folders to Local Folders could delete messages after copy failures
7-bit clean unobtrusive signature payloads were unnecessarily base64 encoded
DisablePasswordReveal policy failed to prevent revealing saved passwords
Account setup tried local-part usernames before full email addresses
Read-only CardDAV address books were incorrectly treated as writable
Autoscroll icon was missing directional arrows in scrollable messages
Blank 1970-dated messages could appear from incomplete message file copies
Opening drafts or templates with invalid quoted-printable data could crash Thunderbird
Thunderbird could crash when inserting a message header into database cache
IMAP repeatedly notified for messages already read on another device
Dragging EWS search folders to Trash caused Thunderbird to crash
Folder compaction displayed incorrect disk space recovery estimates
Custom OAuth settings for EWS account overwrote original account's settings
Thunderbird could crash when going offline with an active IMAP IDLE connection
Thunderbird could crash while running online mail search
Exchange accounts could show repeated false login failures during authentication
Expired newsgroup articles showed an insecure "click here" purge link
IMAP attachments appeared empty after messages were moved by filters
Default special-folder names could reference nonexistent server folders
Thunderbird macOS fell back to Software WebRender after GPU process launch failures
New RSS subscriptions used updated dates instead of published dates
Calendar sort order was not preserved across Thunderbird restarts
"All calendars are disabled" banner reappeared after enabling a calendar
Dismissed CalDAV reminders could permanently stop future event notifications
Read-only CardDAV calendars were incorrectly treated as writable
CalDAV sync failed when server responses used UTF-16 encoding
Visual and UX improvements
Security fixes
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
Original source - Aug 11, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Aug 11, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Aug 13, 2026
153.0.4 Firefox Release
Firefox fixes an unresponsive history-clearing bug that could also cause site data loss.
Version 153.0.4, first offered to Release channel users on August 11, 2026
Fixed
Fixed Firefox becoming unresponsive when clearing browsing history, which could also result in site data being lost. (Bug 2059647)
Reference link to 153.0.3 release notes.
Original source - Aug 11, 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0.3esr
Thunderbird fixes attachment dragging, IMAP tag syncing, password reveal policy, and an Exchange send crash.
Fixed
- Dragging attachments from Local Folders to the desktop failed on Windows
- IMAP tags did not sync automatically across clients
- DisablePasswordReveal policy failed to prevent revealing saved passwords
- Thunderbird could crash when saving a sent Exchange message
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
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- Aug 11, 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0.3
Thunderbird fixes a crash when saving sent Exchange messages.
Fixed
Thunderbird could crash when saving a sent Exchange message
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
Original source - Aug 4, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Aug 4, 2026
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153.0.3 Firefox Release
Firefox 153.0.3 adds Smart Window improvements, including more suggestion results and direct answers from Exa web search, while also fixing media playback, sidebar, VPN offer, Developer Tools, and Windows update issues.
Version 153.0.3, first offered to Release channel users on August 4, 2026
New
Smart Window includes several enhancements:
- The suggestion list now shows more results, making it easier to find history and switch to open tabs. (Bug 2019042)
- The assistant can now answer questions directly using web search results from Exa, instead of handing off to a search engine. (Bug 2046183, Bug 2044385)
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.
Fixed
Fixed audio and video failing to play, or hanging when seeking, on websites that load media from a Blob URL. (Bug 2056444)
Fixed Internet shortcuts dragged from Firefox to the desktop being marked as untrusted on Windows, which caused a security warning every time they were opened. (Bug 2056865)
Fixed the Bookmarks, History, and other sidebars failing to open when the sidebar is hidden and the password manager has been turned off by an enterprise policy. (Bug 2056857)
Fixed a Mozilla VPN upgrade offer appearing for people in regions where Mozilla VPN is not sold. (Bug 2058264)
Fixed frequent Inspector crashes in the Developer Tools on pages where an extension content script had added event listeners. (Bug 2042101)
Fixed a rare case on Windows where starting Firefox while a partial update was still being applied could leave the installation broken and unable to start. (Bug 2058197, Bug 2058594)
Reference link to 153.0.1 release notes.
Original source - Aug 4, 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0.2esr
Thunderbird fixes Yahoo sign-in, Calendar title, and an IMAP offline crash to improve reliability.
Changed
Restored previous Yahoo sign-in flow to improve login reliability
Fixed
Edit Calendar dialog opened without a window title
Thunderbird could crash when going offline with active IMAP connection
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
Original source - Jul 28, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jul 28, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jul 28, 2026
153.0.1 Firefox Release
Firefox fixes startup crashes on Windows after updates, audio playback issues on some streaming sites, New Tab wallpaper flashing, and several page load and editing crashes. It also improves pointer lock and resolves Inspector and View Page Source bugs.
Version 153.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on July 28, 2026
Fixed
- Addressed a startup crash on Windows that could occur after updating Firefox, when some of the application's internal files could not be loaded. Firefox should now start in these cases, although parts of the interface may not display correctly until a further update completes (Bug 2056926).
- Fixed audio playing silently on some music and audio streaming sites after pausing and resuming playback (Bug 2053586).
- Fixed the New Tab page background flashing a few seconds after the page loaded when a custom wallpaper was in use (Bug 2056650).
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a page loaded a frame using a javascript: address (Bug 2054485).
- Fixed a crash that could occur while typing text in an editable area of a page (Bug 2053867).
- Fixed a search engine you had already installed yourself being labeled as "New" when Firefox later started offering the same engine (Bug 2053710).
- Improved pointer lock, used by games and other immersive web content, so that the mouse pointer is less likely to escape the Firefox window (Bug 1255338, Bug 2040628).
- Fixed an issue in the Inspector's Rules view where pseudo-elements could only be expanded once per selected element (Bug 2054525).
- Fixed View Page Source failing to load blob: documents (Bug 2054428).
- Fixed View Page Source timing out on documents that inherit their origin, such as frames using the srcdoc attribute (Bug 2054487).
Reference link to 153.0 release notes.
Unresolved
- Some Windows users may experience a crash on startup after updating, caused by an incomplete update leaving the Firefox installation in an inconsistent state (Bug 1681745). If you are affected, downloading Firefox from firefox.com and installing it over your existing installation will repair it. Your bookmarks, passwords and other data are stored separately and will not be affected.
- Jul 28, 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0.1
Thunderbird fixes unreadable New Message and New Event buttons in RTL locales and resolves OpenPGP sending failures.
Fixed
- New Message and New Event buttons were unreadable in right-to-left locales
- OpenPGP sending failed when an accepted key lacked a valid encryption subkey
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
Original source - Jul 21, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jul 21, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jul 21, 2026
153.0 Firefox Release
Firefox releases version 153 with HDR video playback on Windows, new PDF editing and QR code sharing tools, stronger privacy and permission controls, and expanded support for JPEG XL and web platform features. It also brings developer updates, security fixes, and progressive rollouts for Smart Window and HTTP Compression Dictionaries.
Version 153.0, first offered to Release channel users on July 21, 2026
New
High Dynamic Range (HDR) video playback is now available on Windows - this feature needs HDR mode enabled for the display in Windows Settings - Display. Laptop displays that only offer "HDR video streaming" are not supported at this time. Some videos recorded on phones in certain orientations are currently not shown as HDR.
Containers let you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping, personal, banking) logged into different accounts in the same browser window, but keep your cookies and ad tracking isolated inside each container.
Share any open page with a QR code. Right-click a tab, select Share > Generate QR Code. Great for posters, invitations, banners, and other printed materials.
It is now possible to merge multiple PDFs by dragging a PDF into the PDF sidebar.
It is now possible to add images as new pages within PDFs using the Firefox PDF editor.
Quickly pick and copy a color from any page by typing "pick color", "color picker", or "eyedropper" in the address bar and selecting the "Pick a color" quick action.
Added support for Apple's system-wide full-screen keyboard command (Globe-F).
Firefox now verifies and displays Qualified Website Authentication Certificates (QWACs) in accordance with eIDAS regulations.
Added improved support for videos with overlays so users can more easily access video actions from context menus.
Firefox now highlights the location permission icon in red whenever a website has access to your location. The permission icon is also now visible on search results pages where it was previously hidden.
Smart Window:
- See and choose AI models directly from the Smart Window assistant.
- New Tab now includes a familiar address bar for typing websites and searching the web.
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.
Firefox Labs
Firefox Labs can now be opened quickly by typing "labs" or "experiment" in the address bar and selecting the Open Firefox Labs quick action.
Firefox now offers experimental support for the new JPEG XL image format, which generally provides better compression than WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF and is designed to supersede them. You can enable it from the Firefox Labs panel in Settings.
Fixed
Various security fixes.
Changed
Extensions can no longer access local files by default. Users can grant or revoke this access via the new "Access local files on your computer" permission, separate from "Access your data for all websites".
Local Network Access restrictions are now enabled by default for all users. Firefox requires websites to request permission before connecting to devices on your local network or to apps and services on your device.
Outdated cookie settings have been removed from the Settings UI. Users still in that mode should switch to default behavior "Isolate cross-site cookies". More information
Enterprise
You can find information about policy updates and enterprise-specific bug fixes in the Firefox for Enterprise 153 Release Notes.
Developer
Developer Information
A new "Local Mode" setting in the options panel allows developers to load local directories via custom origins. This simplifies testing for APIs that do not function over standard file:// URLs, removing the need to run a local web server. Multiple directory mappings are supported.
Web Platform
Firefox now supports a limited subset of the non-standard ::-webkit-scrollbar pseudo-element to improve web compatibility:
- Rules with non-zero width / height disable overlay scrollbars for the affected container.
- display: none on ::-webkit-scrollbar behaves like scrollbar-width: none, hiding the scrollbar.
- @supports selector(::-webkit-scrollbar) now evaluates to true.
- Full styling capabilities (colors, border-radius, etc.) are intentionally not supported.
The vertical-align property was converted into a shorthand for baseline-source, alignment-baseline, and baseline-shift in Firefox 149. Now, alignment-baseline supports the new keywords alphabetic, ideographic, central, mathematical, and hanging, extending the variety of baselines to choose for alignment.
Implemented the new popover=hint spec, which removes a series of inconsistent and unexpected behaviors.
The circle() and ellipse() functions accept two new keywords closest-corner and farthest-corner for their radial size.
The newly added Error.stackTraceLimit property allows to set the maximal depth of the captured JavaScript error stack as a performance optimization.
Developers can now use the text import attribute to import text files using the module system.
The Picture In Picture API exposes a way for web developers to make use of user agent Picture-In-Picture functionality.
The Intl.LocaleInfo proposal adds the ability to query Locale information, such as week data (first day in a week, weekend start day, weekend end day), text direction and hour cycle used in the Locale.
The MediaCapabilities.decodingInfo() and MediaCapabilities.encodingInfo() methods now accept the "webrtc" configuration type. This allows a site to query whether a given audio or video configuration can be decoded or encoded for WebRTC and whether doing so will be smooth and/or powerEfficient.
HTTP Compression Dictionaries is enabled via rollout in 153, it will be made permanent in a future release. This can greatly reduce network traffic size for sites that use it.
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.
Community Contributions
With the release of Firefox 153, we are pleased to welcome the developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 15 of whom were brand new volunteers! Please join us in thanking each of these diligent and enthusiastic individuals, and take a look at their contributions:
- Alan Liu: 2009570
- Dineth De SIlva: 2042443
- Freya Arbjerg [:freyacodes]: 2036767
- Garbee: 2045887
- Jessica Foley: 2041062
- John ARNZEN: 2046279
- Max Emig [:maxe]: 230112
- metamuffin: 2045549
- mtan: 2039500
- ozcoder: 2020186
- Pedram Yektamaram: 2042437, 2042440, 2042441, 2042442
- Peter Lafreniere [:n8pjl]: 2041463
- Phone Khant Kyaw Swa: 2008877
- pullmana8: 2031735
- Ryan McCartney: 2039853
- July 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0
Thunderbird adds smarter account and OAuth handling, broader EWS and IMAP fixes, and improved calendar and attachment behavior. This release also brings security updates, crash fixes, OpenPGP and S/MIME improvements, and a range of usability and sync refinements.
What’s New
Unified folders now display account color indicator with account name tooltip
OAuth login for mail accounts now opens in default web browser
Thundermail services can now be used without installing an add-on
OAuth responses now verify issuer fields and reject missing required issuers
Changed
Removed Odnoklassniki chat setup and directed users to XMPP configuration
Fixed
Ctrl+S did not save PDF attachments opened in Thunderbird tabs
TLS errors incorrectly reported all unknown failures as untrusted certificates
Thunderbird could crash during shutdown
Thunderbird could crash when copying an empty list of messages
New mail alerts incorrectly sized or positioned on some multi-monitor setups
Old IMAP profile migration deleted INBOX and other mailbox files
Space bar did not scroll in PDF attachments opened from emails
'Search Messages' shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F) failed in standalone message window
Folder location widget used non-localised name
Empty confirmation dialog when more messages opened in tabs than mailnews.open_tab_warning
Removing tags from IMAP messages could fail and tags reappeared after refresh
Folder pane could not be horizontally resized in additional 3-pane tabs
Global search failed to display inaccessible messages found in local folders
Numeric subfolders were sorted alphabetically instead of naturally
Virtual folder folder-picker showed unlabeled IM account as selectable folder
Virtual folders failed to preserve the online search setting
Apple Mail OpenPGP emails failed to decrypt due to hidden recipient key ID
OpenPGP import of public key with experimental packets failed with unclear error
Performance issue when decrypting encrypted messages
Opening messages with OpenPGP keys was slow and blocked the UI for large keyrings
OpenPGP key refresh failed when fingerprint lookup returned multiple results
Invalid S/MIME encryption certificate caused misleading send errors
Esc cleared quick filter pin after changing folder
Dragging email address between compose windows failed to add recipients
Thunderbird could crash when using Find and Replace All
Sending Message dialog got stuck on "Filter complete." after successful send
Compose with PDF attachments opened PDFs instead of creating a new email
Attachments opened via -compose on Windows could use incorrect filenames
Ctrl+Enter opened attachment instead of sending the message
Compose window remained open when delayed sending was enabled
Account hub showed connection security instead of actual authentication method
Account Hub GSSAPI autoconfiguration incorrectly prompted for a password
New identity dialog lacked reply-matching and end-to-end encryption settings
Account Hub manual EWS setup lacked OAuth authentication option
Thunderbird could fail to shut down cleanly during active OAuth requests
Account Hub kept OAuth selected after changing to hostname without OAuth support
Account Hub showed a false error when returning from EWS manual configuration
Account Hub autodetect wrongly prompted for a password when auth was unavailable
QR exports with SMTP passwords generated invalid data for Thunderbird for Android
Message Filters 'Run Now' button remained disabled after filter run or mail check
Redirected CardDAV URLs resolved relative URLs against the wrong host
Thunderbird could crash when completing folder copy/move
Forwarding some Apple Mail messages incorrectly attached inline text as a file
Auto-compaction could corrupt database and cause crashes during syncs
NNTP server with invalid TLS certificate could not be added to certificate exceptions
Sent message in EWS account showed message as unread in the sent items folder
EWS NTLM authentication triggered login failures despite successful syncs
Saving inline Exchange images used incorrect filenames and file types
Cancelled message send could not be retried and hung with SMTP timeout errors
EWS folders failed to show new mail notifications until the folder was selected
Corrupted NNTP account data caused excessive memory use and startup crash
Multiple selected IMAP folders could not be moved or deleted together
Non-Latin IMAP keywords were lowercased and encoded incorrectly as MUTF-7
Message tags were lost when moving folder from local folder to IMAP folder
Reply All button was missing for some EWS messages with multiple recipients
EWS users could not permanently delete individual Trash messages
Removing a chat account threw an exception and failed to clear the UI
Primary Password policy was detected but not enforced for saved account passwords
Copying one recurring event occurrence failed to set the date when pasted
Calendar invites were incorrectly marked processed after calendar sync completed
ICS event comments were not displayed in Thunderbird event details
Visual and UX improvements
Security fixes
As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, ask for help, or file a bug in Bugzilla
Original source - Jul 14, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jul 14, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jul 16, 2026
152.0.6 Firefox Release
Firefox releases 152.0.6 with New Smart Window enhancements, including built-in assistant actions for selected text and a shortcut row on New Tab. The update also fixes Settings, macOS file picker, homepage loading issues, and includes security fixes.
Version 152.0.6, first offered to Release channel users on July 14, 2026
New
Smart Window includes several enhancements:
- Select text on a page and get quick access to summarize, explain, and more using the built-in assistant. (Bug 2034921)
- Added a row of shortcuts to New Tab, making it easier to get back to sites. (Bug 2048338)
This feature is part of a progressive roll out.
Fixed
Fixed an issue that prevented email tracking protection from being disabled in the redesigned Firefox Settings. (Bug 2049331)
Fixed a hang that could occur after using a file picker dialog on macOS 26. (Bug 2053177)
Fixed the homepage not loading for some enterprise configurations that set it using a legacy autoconfig format. (Bug 2047962)
Various security fixes.Reference link to 152.0.5 release notes.
Original source - July 2026
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Thunderbird 153.0esr
Thunderbird adds a broad round of productivity, security, and usability upgrades, including visual signatures for PDF attachments, better OpenPGP and OAuth support, Exchange and Thundermail account setup, touch-friendly calendar views, folder and mail UI improvements, and many stability fixes.
What’s New
Visual signatures can be added to PDF attachments opened in Thunderbird
'Copy Message Link' and 'Copy News Link' added to header pane 'More actions'
Accessiblity is improved in various tree views
Added 'Archive' action to mail notifications
Add "Show Full Path" folder pane option for compact view modes
Unified folders now display account color indicator with account name tooltip
Folder copy enabled within mail server accounts and local folders
'Reset Folder Order' option added to folder pane to reset custom folder sorting
Add `mail.useLocalizedFolderNames' to toggle special folder name localization
'Favorites' added as destination for 'Move To' and 'File' buttons
Added Proton Mail key server and WKD key discovery for Proton domains
Composer now shows a warning if user's configured OpenPGP key expires soon
Enabled configuration of preferred OpenPGP keyserver via the UI
Add mail.openpgp.load_untested_gpgme_version to load untested GPGME version
Added support for generating Unobtrusive Signatures (OpenPGP)
Implemented option to show only messages without any tag
Message body search enabled for OpenPGP and S/MIME encrypted messages
SecurityDevices enabled in enterprise policies
Enable support for DNS over HTTPS
OAuth login for mail accounts now opens in default web browser
Thundermail services can now be used without installing an add-on
OAuth responses now verify issuer fields and reject missing required issuers
Enable the "Sign in with Thundermail" button in Account Hub
Account hub is opened on the first run of Thunderbird
Account Hub email manual config option added
Enable Thundermail OAuth sign-in with account auto-configuration
One-click account setup for Thundermail accounts
Address book cards can be copied to the clipboard as vCard
Enable exporting selected address book cards
Custom Accent Color can be chosen in Appearance Settings
Enable support for Microsoft Exchange via Exchange Web Services
Calendar month/multiweek views are now scrollable with touch screen
Tasks can be sorted by created or modified date
PDF pages can be reorganized directly in the PDF viewer
Changed
'Copy Message Location' removed from mail context menu
Read folders are now removed from Unread Folders view
Special folders are now localized based on a restricted set of names
OpenPGP public key no longer attached by default in signed-only messages
Address books are now created in Account Hub
Yahoo, AT&T, AOL accounts migrated to OAuth 2.0 with PKCE for improved security
GMail OAuth updated to use PKCE
Skype has been retired and therefore dropped from Address book IM selection
Removed pref default_supports_diskspace.{HOST}
Removed pref default_offline_support_level.{HOST}
Removed Odnoklassniki chat setup and directed users to XMPP configuration
Use of the string "Junk" has been replaced with "Spam"
Updated about:rights to replace local with hosted url
Stop shipping 32-bit Linux x86 binaries
'Hide completed tasks' now also hides cancelled tasks
Fixed
Thunderbird could crash when parsing message state
The English string for the Angry emoji was incorrectly named as the Yell emoji
Notification sounds did not respect operating system's do-not-disturb mode
Non-English localized Thunderbird created English special folders on first start
Copying text from some error alerts was not possible
Fastmail CalDAV app password access failed due to forced OAuth regression
Thunderbird could crash in server subscription logic
Could not distinguish folders with same name in 'Recent Destinations' and 'Favorites'
Donation banner stole focus when Thunderbird was running in the background
Unknown command-line arguments passed to Thunderbird did not print warning
Thunderbird could crash when processing new incoming messages
Spam messages triggered new mail notifications before being moved to Spam folder
Web pages with bad certificates displayed as blank
Memory leak after opening New Window from folder pane context menu
Importing a vCard only displayed VCF files in the file picker
Calendar view tabs were not properly keyboard accessible
Ctrl+S did not save PDF attachments opened in Thunderbird tabs
TLS errors incorrectly reported all unknown failures as untrusted certificates
Thunderbird could crash when copying an empty list of messages
Incorrect roaming data directory caused regression on Windows and macOS
Changing to new drafts folder and then back did not correctly restore the folder
Message headers were re-downloaded at every startup
Old IMAP profile migration deleted INBOX and other mailbox files
'Search Messages...' dialog could not be opened outside the email tab
Option did not exist to create new address book under File -> New
Newly created folder was missing under "Recent" when moving a message
Could not compose new message if the folder pane was empty
'Delete' was missing from context menu when multiple IMAP folders were selected
Compacting multiple folders failed and did not compact
Shift-click for 'Edit' button in drafts header view did not work
"Replace All" in Compose did not update plain text until dialog closed
Status bar messages displayed unlocalized folder names or IMAP mailbox names
Saved email filenames were not not always cross-platform safe
Space bar did not scroll in PDF attachments opened from emails
Folder location widget used non-localised name
Empty confirmation dialog when more messages opened in tabs than mailnews.open_tab_warning
Removing tags from IMAP messages could fail and tags reappeared after refresh
Toggling dark message mode did not restore focus and scroll position
'Show remote content' did not display remote content for EML message
Emoji sequences were not properly handled in subject lines
'Delete' button in unified toolbar could delete attachments instead of message
"Repair text encoding" could duplicate recipient and attachments
Some IMAP emails showed current time instead of correct received date
Deleting a single message in folder using 'Group by Sort' failed after CTRL+A
New newsgroups were not added in alphabetical order by default
Sorting by threads only brought threads with unread top messages to the top
News message marked read after NNTP error prevented retrieval from server
'Recent destinations' submenu was not sorted by time of modification
Account column could display incorrect account name
'Tag' submenu of mail context menu could be populated incorrectly
Unified archive subfolders could show wrong names and no messages
Moving saved search/virtual folder under IMAP could fail
New Folder dialog allowed invalid folder creation without a selected parent folder
New/unread messages in collapsed thread were not obvious enough
Pressing Delete on Trash folder could remove it without confirmation
Renaming of a 'unified folder' created a duplicate
Clicking on a folder in the folder pane did not always open folder
Messages nested deeper than 255 levels disappeared from threading view
Performing Delete followed by Undo on thread parent message could corrupt view
Single messages still appeared collapsible after thread members were deleted
Updated threads remained misordered until folder refresh or resort
Global search failed to display inaccessible messages found in local folders
Numeric subfolders were sorted alphabetically instead of naturally
Virtual folder folder-picker showed unlabeled IM account as selectable folder
Some folders showed new mail count prior to receiving mail
Menu Bar -> View contained duplicate accelerator keys
Unified toolbar Spam button did not switch to "Not Spam" when spam message selected
Warning was not logged if mail.openpgp.alias_rules_file file did not exist
Not all headers were signed when creating digitally signed OpenPGP email
When configuring external GnuPG, user was not promted to import public key
"Open and Show" for OpenPGP-signed message (.eml) did not work
Invalidly signed unencrypted emails were indicated as worse than unsigned ones
Reason for revoked certificate was not shown
Apple Mail OpenPGP emails failed to decrypt due to hidden recipient key ID
OpenPGP import of public key with experimental packets failed with unclear error
Opening messages with OpenPGP keys was slow and blocked the UI for large keyrings
OpenPGP key refresh failed when fingerprint lookup returned multiple results
Encrypted Gmail CSE emails with outer opaque S/MIME were not readable
Invalid S/MIME encryption certificate caused misleading send errors
"Search Messages" search did not finish due to unparsable local folders
Search results showed older irrelevant emails before newer exact matches
Filter search on Body missed draft messages containing German umlauts
Esc cleared quick filter pin after changing folder
Thunderbird could crash during local message search
Replying could fail with mailnews.reply_quoting_selection.multi_word set false
Drag-drop of unselected contact inserted wrong or no email address
Changing identity in compose window caused modified draft not to be saved
Shift-click 'Compose Message To' on 'mailto' link did not open in plain text
Reply with selected text lost formatting for HTML messages containing </pre>
Multipart/related attachments were not preserved when editing or forwarding
Forwarded malformed MIME email had empty body and extra attachment
Message compose window was removed from Task Bar after saving as draft or template
Dragging email address between compose windows failed to add recipients
Thunderbird could crash when using Find and Replace All
Multiple saves while using 'Options' -> 'Send a Copy' resulted in multiple copies
Search for "Attachment" in Settings menu did not find "Files and Attachments"
Add-on account creation did not work with Account Hub
Owl install did not show link to website in Account Hub
Username field did not appear in Account Hub when exchange authentication failed
Account Hub advanced config setup did not include default outgoing config
Disabled inputs could be toggled in Account Hub address book
Users could not disable spinning overlay in Account Hub for email
Account Hub local address book creation could continue with blank name
Account Hub email success messages were not always accurate about config source
Calendar/address book sections were shown in Account Hub when there were none
New password-based Exchange accounts failed to save passwords in login manager
Account hub showed connection security instead of actual authentication method
New identity dialog lacked reply-matching and end-to-end encryption settings
Thunderbird could fail to shut down cleanly during active OAuth requests
Account Hub kept OAuth selected after changing to hostname without OAuth support
Account Hub autodetect wrongly prompted for a password when auth was unavailable
Interrupted external OAuth2 setup required restarting Thunderbird
The default account could be reset after restart if uninitialized
Virtual folders did not update correctly for filtered POP3 messages
'Copy Message to' action in a newsgroup filter did not work
Thunderbird could crash while importing mail thread
Thunderbird did not clearly fail when importing profile from a bad source
Thunderbird could not import profile located at the top level of zip file
'Any Number' was unavailable in address book search with 'Match all of the following'
Contact not found in Advanced Address Book Search if phone number had a period
Thunderbird did not display contact photos in WebP format from CardDAV servers
Opening a vCard (.vcf) from file manager or CLI did not work in some cases
Redirected CardDAV URLs resolved relative URLs against the wrong host
Installations from Microsoft Store did not open when clicking 'mailto:' links
Windows new message notification click did not bring Thunderbird to foreground
Microsoft Store installs did not open when clicking 'news://' link or .eml file
Using thunderbird -compose with double quotes made last email address invalid
Clicking the backspace icon in the quick filter field cleared the input field
Subfolder kept stale accessibility unread count after unread messages were deleted
Moving virtual folder within maildir based IMAP or local folder could fail
Thunderbird could crash when completing folder copy/move
'Edit as New Message' and inline 'Forward' not possible with PGP-signed messages
Various MIME improvements
Forwarding some Apple Mail messages incorrectly attached inline text as a file
Thunderbird could crash when marking all messages as read
Auto-compaction could corrupt database and cause crashes during syncs
'news:' URIs without specific server had incorrect format displayed in status bar
'Mark' -> 'All Read' affected newsgroup messages that had not been fetched yet
Thunderbird could not reconnect to newsgroups after connection loss until restarted
Sending a newsgroup post appeared successful when it had actually failed
Saving a new draft retained superceded version
Thunderbird hung when auto-checking multiple accounts for new messages
Spam not checked with mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new on
Startup could be slow with large number of folders not using subscriptions
Saved search in unified folder resulted in server error
Thunderbird did not report refused POP3 connection
Remove message body retention policy was not functional
POP3 could stop downloading mail until restart
With auto-mark-read disabled, large mail still marked as read during load delay
IMAP "Show only subscribed folders" could not be changed without restart
POP3 deadlocked when server went silent without closing socket
Thunderbird could crash when mail folder was renamed or moved
NNTP server with invalid TLS certificate could not be added to certificate exceptions
Cancelled message send could not be retried and hung with SMTP timeout errors
Corrupted NNTP account data caused excessive memory use and startup crash
Multiple selected IMAP folders could not be moved or deleted together
Non-Latin IMAP keywords were lowercased and encoded incorrectly as MUTF-7
Message tags were lost when moving folder from local folder to IMAP folder
Removing a chat account threw an exception and failed to clear the UI
Enterprise policy use not indicated in about:preferences with link to about:policies
Language field in settings was empty after restart in Troubleshoot Mode
Primary Password policy was detected but not enforced for saved account passwords
Archived RSS feed messages were sent to the archive folder of default identity
Broken feed icon could prevent updating of feeds
Task reminders could fail for tasks without end dates or with shifted due dates
Calendar did not alert user for connection issues
Copying one recurring event occurrence failed to set the date when pasted
Could not copy an event in multiweek or month view by drag-and-drop
Duplicate attendees were added to invitations instead of being filtered out
Calendar discovery with certificate error displayed multiple exceptions
It was not possible to create date-only all-day tasks
Task percentage complete was not preserved separately from status in tooltips
Calendar invites were incorrectly marked processed after calendar sync completed
ICS event comments were not displayed in Thunderbird event details
Dismissed Gmail calendar reminder did nothing and item stayed visible
iCal imports misread unknown timezones as GMT, creating events at wrong times
Could not export local calendar as HTML
Cancelled filter edit dialog closed the message filter dialog
Visual and UX improvements
Security fixes
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Original source - Jul 7, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jul 7, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jul 7, 2026
152.0.5 Firefox Release
Firefox fixes the Manage payment methods list in Settings when a saved card has no expiration date.
Version 152.0.5, first offered to Release channel users on July 7, 2026
Fixed
Fixed the Manage payment methods list in Settings appearing empty when a saved payment card had no expiration date. (Bug 2048383)
Reference link to 152.0.4 release notes.
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