--- title: Firefox roadmap: What's new and what's coming next description: Firefox's PDF viewer now starts up to 45% faster on desktop. Android users can move the tab bar to the bottom of the screen, and desktop New Tab now saves... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-roadmap-what-s-new-and-what-s-coming-next-xs1zdsnfa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Firefox roadmap: What's new and what's coming next | daily.dev og:description: Firefox's PDF viewer now starts up to 45% faster on desktop. Android users can move the tab bar to the bottom of the screen, and desktop New Tab now saves... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-roadmap-what-s-new-and-what-s-coming-next-xs1zdsnfa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Xs1Zdsnfa.png og:image:alt: Firefox roadmap: What's new and what's coming next og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Firefox roadmap: What's new and what's coming next **[Mozilla](https://daily.dev/sources/mozilla)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Firefox's PDF viewer now starts up to 45% faster on desktop. Android users can move the tab bar to the bottom of the screen, and desktop New Tab now saves custom wallpapers under 'Your images.' Smart Window beta can now auto-fill forms from chosen tabs and watch pages for changes, available in English in the US and Canada. Upcoming features include Mini Window for floating tabs, text-to-speech reading on desktop and Android, offline article saving on Android, speech recognition for voice input and captions on desktop, per-site VPN rules, and a quick-clear browsing data button on Classic Window. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much faster does Firefox's built-in PDF viewer open documents now? Firefox's built-in PDF viewer starts up to 45% faster on desktop, reducing wait time when opening a document in the browser. This improvement is part of a batch of recent Firefox updates that also include tab bar repositioning on Android and wallpaper saving on New Tab for desktop. _Developers tracking browser performance changes can follow Firefox updates like this on daily.dev._ ### What is Firefox's Smart Window beta feature and who can use it? Smart Window is a Firefox beta feature that can auto-fill online forms using information from a user's open tabs and can watch a page and notify the user when something changes, such as a price drop or new job listing. It is currently available only in English in the U.S. and Canada. _Anyone evaluating new browser productivity features can keep up with rollouts like this on daily.dev._ ### Will Firefox support on-device speech recognition for voice input and captions on desktop? Firefox is bringing speech recognition to desktop so websites using Firefox's built-in capability can offer voice input and captions without sending audio to a server. The audio stays on the device while only the transcribed text is sent to the site, and after downloading the speech recognition model, transcription also works offline. _Web developers planning privacy-respecting voice features can track browser capability rollouts on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [See what's next for Firefox](https://daily.dev/posts/see-what-s-next-for-firefox-cmdicw3e1) · Lobsters · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [What’s new in Firefox this June, and what’s next on the Firefox roadmap](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-firefox-this-june-and-what-s-next-on-the-firefox-roadmap-ystuo2qz9) · Mozilla · 32 upvotes · 1 comments - [Firefox Can Do All This? 21 Features Most Users Never Touch](https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-can-do-all-this-21-features-most-users-never-touch-zlfij6tgg) · It's Foss · 6 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#firefox](https://daily.dev/tags/firefox), [#vpn](https://daily.dev/tags/vpn), [#mozilla](https://daily.dev/tags/mozilla) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-roadmap-what-s-new-and-what-s-coming-next-xs1zdsnfa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Firefox roadmap: What's new and what's coming next","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-roadmap-what-s-new-and-what-s-coming-next-xs1zdsnfa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-roadmap-what-s-new-and-what-s-coming-next-xs1zdsnfa"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T13:00:49.139Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T13:01:17.701Z","description":"Firefox's PDF viewer now starts up to 45% faster on desktop. 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