Download Firefox 70 New Icon Fresh Look And Better Dark Mode

This release is not a major release and can be termed as a maintenance update. There are a few performance and stability improvements along with some visual changes like a new welcome screen and a new Firefox icon.

Firefox 70 New features and changes

New Firefox icon

Firefox has a new icon. The new icon is much of a facelift than a complete change. Here are the old and new icons for you to compare:

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New welcome screen

Firefox 70 comes with a new welcome screen. This will help new users configure the browser easily and much faster than before.

Firefox dark mode

Firefox 70 comes with better support for dark mode especially now it will play better when the system’s dark mode. If you have your system configured with dark mode by default, Firefox will also default to the dark mode. The built-in pages of Firefox like Preferences and Protections report also follow the same dark mode theme. Otherwise, you can turn dark mode on or off by following the steps below:

Tracking protection improvements

With Firefox 70, tracking enhanced tracking protection (ETP) feature is enabled by default for all platforms and users (including social media). This feature will protect the user against cross-site tracking, for example, from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. An interesting feature of tracking protection is the availability of stats. You can see a summary of how much protection Firefox has provided against tracking. You can see a chart of trackers blocked on a daily and weekly basis. To open the stats, go to Firefox menu –> Privacy Protections. This is a great feature for people who are concerned about their privacy and tracking.

Other enhancements

Other than the visual enhancements, there are several improvements and fixes which will make the browser more stable. Firefox 70 comes with a new JavaScript interpreter that improves overall performance. WebRender is enabled by default for Intel Integrated Graphics users to further improve the performance. Now you will get a small icon in the address bar whenever a website is using your geolocation. Firefox 70 also has a new icon for the user profile. This is near the Firefox menu. The profile menu lets you see if the user profile is being synchronized with the user’s firefox account or not.