To start with, Firefox’s stable channel on the Play Store jumps from v68 to v79 with this update, including essentially a year’s worth of updates in a single go.
All of the elements have a more modern design as well as some nice quality-of-life changes. For example, the address bar can now be moved to the bottom of the screen, a more comfortable location for many users.
The official changelog details everything else that’s new- new tabs tray, voice searches from the address bar, icon in the address bar when reader mode is available, enhanced tracking protection is set to strict by default, and you can now sort your logins by name or last-used date.
There’s a lot of good here, and one big negative”lack of proper extension support. Where Firefox v68 supported thousands of extensions, v79 only launches with a handful. On the bright side, this should be fixed over time as developers are able to update their extensions/add-ons.
