Firefox 144.0 is out with new profile management, tab group improvements, and securit

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Mozilla releases Firefox 144.0 and several Firefox ESR versions today. The new releases introduce new features, improve other features, and fix some security issues as well. As such, most users of the browser may want to upgrade their version of Firefox to the latest as soon as possible.

The big new feature of the release is the long-awaited profile management update. Profiles help users distinguish between different tasks or personas in Firefox, similarly to how Chromium-based browsers offer the functionality. Firefox did support it for ages, but this update should improve the accessibility of the feature.

Firefox 144: the major changes and new featuresProfile Management update



Mozilla has launched improvements to Firefox's built-in profile management functionality. New profiles can now be created easily and you can switch between them when you start Firefox.

The existing functionality remains at the same time. Launch about:profiles to see a list of all profiles and their folders on the system. Here you may also create new profiles, set a new default profile or launch a profile separately.

Veteran users will be pleased to hear that the parameters that launch different profiles in Firefox remain as is as well.

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