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Mozilla plans to release Firefox 144 on October 14th, 2025.
What's new in Firefox 143?
The biggest addition with this update is that Microsoft Copilot has been added to the AI chatbots available in the sidebar, joining ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and Le Chat Mistral.
Firefox 143 also adds the ability to use Google Lens to search for information on images, but this feature requires Google to be set as the browser's default search engine. It's currently rolling out gradually to users. (Lens is already available in Chrome and Opera One, and Edge has a similar function that accesses Bing.)
To manually enable reverse image searches with Google Lens, navigate to the internal configuration page by typing about:config into the address bar, then search for the browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate flag. If the value of the flag is set to "false," double-click it and change it to "true." The change should take effect immediately.
On Windows, Firefox 143 can run websites as web apps that can be pinned directly to the Windows taskbar. There's a new icon on the right-hand side of the address bar for pinning. However, this doesn't work with Firefox installed from the Microsoft Store. Linux and macOS versions of Firefox will get a similar feature later on.
Other improvements include: the ability to pin tabs by dragging a tab to the designated area at the top of the tab bar; a camera pr
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