Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox automatically protects your privacy while you browse. It blocks trackers that follow you around online to collect information about your browsing habits and interests. It also includes protections against harmful scripts, such as malware that drains your battery. For more information, see SmartBlock for Enhanced Tracking Protection.
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- 6Adjust your global Enhanced Tracking Protection settings
To see what’s been blocked on all sites over the past week, visit your Protections Dashboard. Click the menu button and select Protections Dashboard or type about:protections into the address bar. This will open the Protections Dashboard page in a new tab.
To see what’s being blocked on individual pages, click the shield to the left of the address bar.
Firefox uses a list of known trackers provided by Disconnect. By default, Firefox blocks the following types of trackers and scripts.
- Social media trackers
- Cross-site tracking cookies
- Fingerprinters
- Cryptominers
- Tracking content in Private Windows only. These trackers are hidden in ads, videos, and other in-page content. To add this protection in all windows, visit your privacy preferences and select Strict or Custom as explained below.
To learn more about trackers and scripts blocked by Firefox, see the article Trackers and scripts Firefox blocks in Enhanced Tracking Protection and SmartBlock for Enhanced Tracking Protection.
The shield to the left of the address bar tells if you if Firefox is blocking trackers and scripts on a site.
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- - Purple: Firefox blocked trackers and harmful scripts on a site. Open the shield to see what was blocked.
- - Gray: No known trackers or harmful scripts were detected on a site.
- - Gray and crossed out: Enhanced Tracking Protection is turned off on a site. Open the shield and toggle the switch to turn it back on.
Click on the shield to see what Firefox has blocked.
This panel will display different information depending on the site you’re on.
- Blocked: Firefox blocked these trackers and scripts. Select each one to see a detailed list.
- Allowed: These trackers and scripts loaded on the page. This happens because some websites may require loading trackers and scripts to function proprerly. Firefox allows only those trackers and scripts needed for the site to work and blocks the rest. For more information, visit SmartBlock for Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- None Detected: Firefox looked for these trackers and scripts, but did not find them on this site.
- Select Protection Settings to adjust your global privacy settings.
- Select Protections Dashboard to view a personalized summary of your protections over the past week, including tools to take control of your online security.
If a site seems broken, try turning off Enhanced Tracking Protection. It allows trackers to load on that site only. Enhanced Tracking Protection will continue to block trackers on other sites.
- Click on the shield to the left of the address bar.
- Toggle the switch at the top of the panel.
- This will turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection for this site. The page will reload automatically and allow trackers on this site only.
Follow the same process to turn Enhanced Tracking Protection back on.
You may encounter breakage on some sites when you’re in Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. This is because trackers are hidden in some content. For example, a website might embed an outside video or social media post that contains trackers. To block the trackers, Firefox must also block the content itself.Trackers are often hidden in the following types of content:
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- Login fields
- Forms
- Payments
- Comments
- Videos
When you download Firefox, all protections included in Standard Enhanced Tracking Protection are already enabled.
To view or change your Enhanced Tracking Protection settings for all sites, click the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage and select Protection Settings. This will open the Firefox OptionsPreferencesSettingsPreferencesPrivacy & Security panel in a new tab.
Click the menu button , click OptionsPreferencesSettingsPreferences, and select Privacy & Security.
Standard Enhanced Tracking Protection
By default, Firefox blocks the following on all sites.
- Social media trackers
- Cross-site tracking cookies
- Tracking content in Private Windows only.
- Cryptominers
- Fingerprinters
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Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection
To further increase privacy, select Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection. This will block the following:
- Social media trackers
- Cross-site tracking cookiesCross-site cookies
- Tracking content in all windows
- Cryptominers
- Fingerprinters
Strict protection includes Total Cookie Protection. This gives every website its own 'cookie jar', which prevents third-party trackers from collecting browsing data across multiple websites.
- Click on the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage.
- Click on Protection Settings.
- The Firefox OptionsPreferencesSettingsPreferencesPrivacy & Security panel will open.
- Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select Strict.
- Select the button to apply your new privacy settings.
Custom Enhanced Tracking Protection
Want to block some trackers and scripts, but not others? Use Custom Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- Click on the shield to the left of the address bar on any webpage.
- Click on Protection Settings.
- The Firefox OptionsPreferencesSettingsPreferencesPrivacy & Security panel will open.
- Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select Custom.
- Choose which trackers and scripts to block by selecting those checkboxes.
- Select the button to apply your new privacy settings.
You can also turn off all protections in Custom, by deselecting all checkboxes. This allows all trackers and scripts to load and effectively disables these features:
- Deselect the Trackers checkbox.
- Deselect the Cookies checkbox.
- Deselect the Cryptominers checkbox.
- Deselect the Fingerprinters checkbox.
- Select the button to apply your new privacy settings.
This schedule is based on the current RapidRelease plan. Future dates may change if the process changes. Code is not always released to users on the same day as the branch migration. The release to users may be a few days later, to allow for manual testing and sign-off. Thunderbird tracks the ESR schedule column per Thunderbird release info.
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Calendars
This wiki page may not always have the most current information. Please refer to one of the following calendars for up-to-date scheduling:
- Firefox Merge/Release Dates (ICS for Thunderbird/Lightning or your calendar app) (low noise)
- Firefox Merge/Release Full Scheduling Calendar (ICS) (highly detailed - 99.99% up to date)
Future branch dates
Quarter | Soft Freeze | Merge Date | Nightly | Beta | Release Date | Release | ESR |
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Q2 2021 | 2021-05-27 | 2021-05-31 | Firefox 91 | Firefox 90 | 2021-06-01 | Firefox 89 | Firefox 78.11 |
2021-06-24 | 2021-06-28 | Firefox 92 | Firefox 91 | 2021-06-29 | Firefox 90 | Firefox 78.12 | |
Q3 2021 | 2021-07-22 | 2021-07-26 | Firefox 93 | Firefox 92 | 2021-07-27 | Firefox 91 | Firefox 78.13; 91.0 |
2021-08-19 | 2021-08-23 | Firefox 94 | Firefox 93 | 2021-08-24 | Firefox 92 | Firefox 78.14; 91.1 | |
2021-09-16 | 2021-09-20 | Firefox 95 | Firefox 94 | 2021-09-21 | Firefox 93 | Firefox 78.15; 91.2 | |
Q4 2021 | 2021-10-14 | 2021-10-18 | Firefox 96 | Firefox 95 | 2021-10-19 | Firefox 94 | Firefox 91.3 |
2021-11-11 | 2021-11-15 | Firefox 97 | Firefox 96 | 2021-11-16 | Firefox 95 | Firefox 91.4 | |
2021-12-09 | 2021-12-13 | Firefox 98 | Firefox 97 | 2021-12-14 | Firefox 96 | Firefox 91.5 | |
Q1 2022 | 2022-01-20 | 2022-01-24 | Firefox 99 | Firefox 98 | 2022-01-25 | Firefox 97 | Firefox 91.6 |
The Nightly soft freeze is typically during the week prior to merge day. During this period high-risk patches should avoid landing until after the Nightly version bump lands on mozilla-central on merge day.
Past branch dates
More details on contents of releases can be found in the release notes archive or Wikipedia: Firefox version history.
Soft Freeze | Merge Date | Central | Beta | Release Date | Release | ESR |
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2021-04-15 | 2021-04-19 | Firefox 90 | Firefox 89 | 2021-04-19 | Firefox 88 | Firefox 78.10 |
2021-03-18 | 2021-03-22 | Firefox 89 | Firefox 88 | 2021-03-23 | Firefox 87 | Firefox 78.9 |
2021-02-18 | 2021-02-22 | Firefox 88 | Firefox 87 | 2021-02-23 | Firefox 86 | Firefox 78.8 |
2021-01-21 | 2021-01-25 | Firefox 87 | Firefox 86 | 2021-01-26 | Firefox 85 | Firefox 78.7 |
2020-12-10 | 2020-12-14 | Firefox 86 | Firefox 85 | 2020-12-15 | Firefox 84 | Firefox 78.6 |
2020-11-12 | 2020-11-16 | Firefox 85 | Firefox 84 | 2020-11-17 | Firefox 83 | Firefox 78.5 |
2020-10-15 | 2020-10-19 | Firefox 84 | Firefox 83 | 2020-10-20 | Firefox 82 | Firefox 78.4 |
2020-09-17 | 2020-09-21 | Firefox 83 | Firefox 82 | 2020-09-22 | Firefox 81 | Firefox 78.3 |
2020-08-20 | 2020-08-24 | Firefox 82 | Firefox 81 | 2020-08-25 | Firefox 80 | Firefox 68.12; 78.2 |
2020-07-23 | 2020-07-27 | Firefox 81 | Firefox 80 | 2020-07-28 | Firefox 79 | Firefox 68.11; 78.1 |
2020-06-26 | 2020-06-29 | Firefox 80 | Firefox 79 | 2020-06-30 | Firefox 78 | Firefox 68.10; 78.0 |
2020-05-28 | 2020-06-01 | Firefox 79 | Firefox 78 | 2020-06-02 | Firefox 77 | Firefox 68.9 |
2020-04-30 | 2020-05-04 | Firefox 78 | Firefox 77 | 2020-05-05 | Firefox 76 | Firefox 68.8 |
2020-04-02 | 2020-04-06 | Firefox 77 | Firefox 76 | 2020-04-07 | Firefox 75 | Firefox 68.7 |
2020-03-05 | 2020-03-09 | Firefox 76 | Firefox 75 | 2020-03-10 | Firefox 74 | Firefox 68.6 |
2020-02-06 | 2020-02-10 | Firefox 75 | Firefox 74 | 2020-02-11 | Firefox 73 | Firefox 68.5 |
2020-01-02 | 2020-01-06 | Firefox 74 | Firefox 73 | 2020-01-07 | Firefox 72 | Firefox 68.4 |
2019-11-25 | 2019-12-02 | Firefox 73 | Firefox 72 | 2019-12-03 | Firefox 71 | Firefox 68.3 |
2019-10-14 | 2019-10-21 | Firefox 72 | Firefox 71 | 2019-10-22 | Firefox 70 | Firefox 68.2 |
2019-08-26 | 2019-09-02 | Firefox 71 | Firefox 70 | 2019-09-03 | Firefox 69 | Firefox 60.9; 68.1 |
2019-07-01 | 2019-07-08 | Firefox 70 | Firefox 69 | 2019-07-09 | Firefox 68 | Firefox 60.8; 68.0 |
2019-05-13 | 2019-05-20 | Firefox 69 | Firefox 68 | 2019-05-21 | Firefox 67 | Firefox 60.7 |
2019-03-11 | 2019-03-18 | Firefox 68 | Firefox 67 | 2019-03-19 | Firefox 66 | Firefox 60.6 |
2019-01-21 | 2019-01-28 | Firefox 67 | Firefox 66 | 2019-01-29 | Firefox 65 | Firefox 60.5 |
2018-12-03 | 2018-12-10 | Firefox 66 | Firefox 65 | 2018-12-11 | Firefox 64 | Firefox 60.4 |
2018-10-15 | 2018-10-22 | Firefox 65 | Firefox 64 | 2018-10-23 | Firefox 63 | Firefox 60.3 |
Merge Date | Central | Beta | Release Date | Release | ESR |
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2018-09-04 | Firefox 64 | Firefox 63 | 2018-09-05 | Firefox 62 | Firefox 60.2 |
2018-06-25 | Firefox 63 | Firefox 62 | 2018-06-26 | Firefox 61 | Firefox 52.9; 60.1 |
2018-05-07 | Firefox 62 | Firefox 61 | 2018-05-09 | Firefox 60 | Firefox 52.8; 60.0 |
2018-03-12 | Firefox 61 | Firefox 60 | 2018-03-13 | Firefox 59 | Firefox 52.7 |
2018-01-22 | Firefox 60 | Firefox 59 | 2018-01-23 | Firefox 58 | Firefox 52.6 |
2017-11-13 | Firefox 59 | Firefox 58 | 2017-11-14 | Firefox 57 | Firefox 52.5 |
2017-09-21 | Firefox 58 | Firefox 57 | 2017-09-28 | Firefox 56 | Firefox 52.4 |
2017-08-02 | Firefox 57 | Firefox 56 | 2017-08-08 | Firefox 55 | Firefox 52.3 |
2017-06-12 | Firefox 56 | Firefox 55 | 2017-06-13 | Firefox 54 | Firefox 52.2 |
2017-04-18 | Firefox 55 | Firefox 54 | 2017-04-19 | Firefox 53 | Firefox 45.9; 52.1 |
Merge Date | Central | Aurora | Beta | Release Date | Release | ESR |
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2017-03-06 | Firefox 55 | Firefox 54 | Firefox 53 | 2017-03-07 | Firefox 52 | Firefox 45.8; 52.0 |
2017-01-23 | Firefox 54 | Firefox 53 | Firefox 52 | 2017-01-24 | Firefox 51 | Firefox 45.7 |
2016-12-13 | Firefox 50.1.0 | Firefox 45.6 | ||||
2016-11-14 | Firefox 53 | Firefox 52 | Firefox 51 | 2016-11-15 | Firefox 50 | Firefox 45.5 |
2016-09-19 | Firefox 52 | Firefox 51 | Firefox 50 | 2016-09-20 | Firefox 49 | Firefox 45.4 |
2016-08-01 | Firefox 51 | Firefox 50 | Firefox 49 | 2016-08-02 | Firefox 48 | Firefox 45.3 |
2016-06-06 | Firefox 50 | Firefox 49 | Firefox 48 | 2016-06-07 | Firefox 47 | Firefox 45.2 |
2016-04-25 | Firefox 49 | Firefox 48 | Firefox 47 | 2016-04-26 | Firefox 46 | Firefox 38.8; 45.1 |
2016-03-07 | Firefox 48 | Firefox 47 | Firefox 46 | 2016-03-08 | Firefox 45 | Firefox 38.7; 45.0 |
2016-01-25 | Firefox 47 | Firefox 46 | Firefox 45 | 2016-01-26 | Firefox 44 | Firefox 38.6 |
2015-12-14 | Firefox 46 | Firefox 45 | Firefox 44 | 2015-12-15 | Firefox 43 | Firefox 38.5 |
2015-10-29 | Firefox 45 | Firefox 44 | Firefox 43 | 2015-11-03 | Firefox 42 | Firefox 38.4 |
2015-09-21 | Firefox 44 | Firefox 43 | Firefox 42 | 2015-09-22 | Firefox 41 | Firefox 38.3 |
2015-08-10 | Firefox 43 | Firefox 42 | Firefox 41 | 2015-08-11 | Firefox 40 | Firefox 38.2 |
2015-06-29 | Firefox 42 | Firefox 41 | Firefox 40 | 2015-06-30 | Firefox 39 | Firefox 31.8; 38.1 |
2015-06-02 | Firefox 38.0.5 | |||||
2015-05-11* | Firefox 41 | Firefox 40 | Firefox 39 | 2015-05-12* | Firefox 38 | Firefox 31.7; 38.0 |
2015-03-30* | Firefox 40 | Firefox 39 | Firefox 38 | 2015-03-31* | Firefox 37 | Firefox 31.6 |
2015-02-23 | Firefox 39 | Firefox 38 | Firefox 37 | 2015-02-24 | Firefox 36 | Firefox 31.5 |
2015-01-12* | Firefox 38 | Firefox 37 | Firefox 36 | 2015-01-13* | Firefox 35 | Firefox 31.4 |
2014-11-28* | Firefox 37 | Firefox 36 | Firefox 35 | 2014-12-01* | Firefox 34 | Firefox 31.3 |
2014-10-13 | Firefox 36 | Firefox 35 | Firefox 34 | 2014-10-14 | Firefox 33 | Firefox 31.2 |
2014-09-02* | Firefox 35 | Firefox 34 | Firefox 33 | 2014-09-02 | Firefox 32 | Firefox 24.8; 31.1 |
2014-07-21 | Firefox 34 | Firefox 33 | Firefox 32 | 2014-07-22 | Firefox 31 | Firefox 24.7; 31.0 |
2014-06-09 | Firefox 33 | Firefox 32 | Firefox 31 | 2014-06-10 | Firefox 30 | Firefox 24.6 |
2014-04-28 | Firefox 32 | Firefox 31 | Firefox 30 | 2014-04-29 | Firefox 29 | Firefox 24.5 |
2014-03-17 | Firefox 31 | Firefox 30 | Firefox 29 | 2014-03-18 | Firefox 28 | Firefox 24.4 |
2014-02-03* | Firefox 30 | Firefox 29 | Firefox 28 | 2014-02-04* | Firefox 27 | Firefox 24.3 |
2013-12-09 | Firefox 29 | Firefox 28 | Firefox 27 | 2013-12-10 | Firefox 26 | Firefox 24.2 |
2013-10-28 | Firefox 28 | Firefox 27 | Firefox 26 | 2013-10-29 | Firefox 25 | Firefox 17.0.10; 24.1 |
2013-09-16 | Firefox 27 | Firefox 26 | Firefox 25 | 2013-09-17 | Firefox 24 | Firefox 17.0.9; 24.0 |
2013-08-05 | Firefox 26 | Firefox 25 | Firefox 24 | 2013-08-06 | Firefox 23 | Firefox 17.0.8 |
2013-06-24 | Firefox 25 | Firefox 24 | Firefox 23 | 2013-06-25 | Firefox 22 | Firefox 17.0.7 |
2013-05-13 | Firefox 24 | Firefox 23 | Firefox 22 | 2013-05-14 | Firefox 21 | Firefox 17.0.6 |
2013-04-01 | Firefox 23 | Firefox 22 | Firefox 21 | 2013-04-02 | Firefox 20 | Firefox 17.0.5 |
2013-02-19* | Firefox 22 | Firefox 21 | Firefox 20 | 2013-02-19 | Firefox 19 | Firefox 17.0.3 |
2013-01-07* | Firefox 21 | Firefox 20 | Firefox 19 | 2013-01-08* | Firefox 18 | Firefox 10.0.12; 17.0.2 |
2012-11-19 | Firefox 20 | Firefox 19 | Firefox 18 | 2012-11-20 | Firefox 17 | Firefox 10.0.11; 17.0 |
2012-10-08 | Firefox 19 | Firefox 18 | Firefox 17 | 2012-10-09 | Firefox 16 | Firefox 10.0.8 |
2012-08-27 | Firefox 18 | Firefox 17 | Firefox 16 | 2012-08-28 | Firefox 15 | Firefox 10.0.7 |
2012-07-16 | Firefox 17 | Firefox 16 | Firefox 15 | 2012-07-17 | Firefox 14 | Firefox 10.0.6 |
2012-06-05 | Firefox 16 | Firefox 15 | Firefox 14 | 2012-06-05 | Firefox 13 | Firefox 10.0.5 |
2012-04-24 | Firefox 15 | Firefox 14 | Firefox 13 | 2012-04-24 | Firefox 12 | Firefox 10.0.4 |
2012-03-13 | Firefox 14 | Firefox 13 | Firefox 12 | 2012-03-13 | Firefox 11 | Firefox 10.0.3 |
2012-01-31 | Firefox 13 | Firefox 12 | Firefox 11 | 2012-01-31 | Firefox 10 | Firefox 10.0 |
2011-12-20 | Firefox 12 | Firefox 11 | Firefox 10 | 2011-12-20 | Firefox 9 | |
2011-11-08 | Firefox 11 | Firefox 10 | Firefox 9 | 2011-11-08 | Firefox 8 | |
2011-09-27 | Firefox 10 | Firefox 9 | Firefox 8 | 2011-09-27 | Firefox 7 | |
2011-08-16 | Firefox 9 | Firefox 8 | Firefox 7 | 2011-08-16 | Firefox 6 | |
2011-07-05 | Firefox 8 | Firefox 7 | Firefox 6 | |||
2011-06-21 | Firefox 5 | |||||
2011-05-24 | Firefox 7 | Firefox 6 | ||||
2011-05-17 | Firefox 5 | |||||
2011-04-12 | Firefox 6 | Firefox 5 |
*Some release dates and merge dates are rescheduled to avoid conflicts with holidays.
Notes:
- Four week schedule starting late 2019.
- Irregular schedule targeting six to eight week intervals, adjusting for holidays, starting 2016.
- Six week schedule from 2011 to 2015 (with some dates delayed to avoid conflicts with holidays).
- Firefox 5 was on a slightly different schedule. It spent five weeks each on Aurora and Beta while later releases spent six weeks on each branch.