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160.0a1 Firefox Nightly

October 8, 2026

Version 160.0a1, first offered to Nightly channel users on October 8, 2026

Firefox Nightly gets updated every day and as a consequence, the release notes for the Nightly channel are updated continuously to reflect features that have reached sufficient maturity to benefit from community feedback and bug reports.

Warning: Features listed here may or may not make a final release of Firefox

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You can interact with other Firefox Nightly users and give your feedback to Mozilla staff in the Nightly Matrix room on chat.mozilla.org.

New

  • Starting with Firefox 159, Firefox Nightly on Android automatically turns on DNS over HTTPS for users in the United States, as Firefox on desktop does, unless network checks indicate it should stay off.

    Bug 2073500

Changed

  • Starting with Firefox 159, Firefox Nightly on macOS selects the word or link under the pointer when right-clicking like other macOS apps.

    Bug 1751335

Web Platform

  • Starting with Firefox 158, Firefox Nightly supports the corner-shape property, including all corner-*-shape longhand properties, allowing to change the shape of the corners of an element.

    Bug 2070927
  • Starting with Firefox 158, Firefox Nightly now supports the random() CSS function, which allows authors to introduce randomness into their styles, generating a random value in a given range (with an optional increment) that is usable anywhere that math functions can be specified.

    Bug 2071165
  • Starting with Firefox 158, Firefox Nightly now supports streaming uploads with the Fetch API, allowing web applications to send request bodies incrementally using a ReadableStream without buffering the entire body first.

    Bug 1594633