Firefox 157 Nova Released With Its Biggest Visual Refresh in Years

Mozilla has released Firefox 157, featuring its biggest visual refresh in years under the internal name Project Nova. The update modernizes the browser chrome, sidebar and menus, adds built-in light and dark themes and a compact mode, plus hardware AV1 decoding for WebRTC calls and localized address bar suggestions in 17 more European countries.

• Project Nova redesign refreshes the browser chrome, menus and sidebar
• Hardware AV1 decoding for WebRTC calls cuts CPU load
• Localized address bar suggestions expand to 17 European countries
• Amazon is no longer a built-in Firefox search engine