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Gamers have asked for GeForce NOW support for years. Today, NVIDIA made it official, opening up GeForce RTX-powered play to Firefox on Windows.

Firefox users can now stream more than 2,000 PC games from virtually anywhere, no downloads, installs, or hardware upgrades required, just a Windows PC and a browser.

Gaming: one of the web's toughest tests

Cloud gaming pushes a browser in ways most websites never do. Every click and frame matters. Behind today's announcement is months of collaboration and engineering between Mozilla and NVIDIA to deliver GeForce NOW on Firefox for Windows.

Now, players can jump into high-performance PC gaming directly from Firefox, no waiting on lengthy game downloads, installs, or updates. The experience delivers GeForce RTX-powered performance at up to 1440p and up to 120 frames per second for GeForce NOW Ultimate members.

"Firefox earned its place on our list of supported browsers by delivering the first-class experience GeForce NOW players expect. We set a high bar for browser support, and we're excited to welcome Firefox - giving millions of Firefox fans a new way to stream the games they love," said Andrew Fear, Director of NVIDIA GeForce NOW.

Versatility and customization baked into your gaming rig

Gamers put real effort into making their rigs their own, and Firefox gets that. Users can choose themes, custom colors, and tab settings to customize their setup, instead of sitting there like just another window.

We also know online gaming doesn't happen in just one window. It's social and sometimes spontaneous. With Firefox, you can have a Discord call running in Split View, a guide open in another tab, or Reddit pulled up between matches. Then go full screen when you're ready to play, no need to switch browsers to stream games.

"Teaming up with NVIDIA to bring GeForce NOW to Firefox is a milestone moment - one of the world's leading cloud gaming services, now running on a browser built for privacy, control and flexibility. This is a big win for the Firefox community and for NVIDIA's gaming community - and a sign of even bigger things ahead," said Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox.

If Firefox is already your browser of choice, online gaming and your PC game library can join the party. Whether your library lives on Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, Xbox PC Game Pass, or Ubisoft Connect, you can sign in, open your library, and start streaming the games you already own. For all the gamers returning to Night City in Cyberpunk 2077, jumping into Halo: Campaign Evolved, or dropping in for a quick round of Fortnite, Firefox users can now play where you want.

Try it today

Update to the latest version of Firefox, go to play.geforcenow.com, and sign in with your GeForce NOW account.

Join us August 25 as NVIDIA heads to Gamescom, where we'll have more to share about what this partnership means for gamers.

The post The wait is over. NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds Firefox to its supported browser lineup. appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

18 Aug 2026 2:58pm GMT

Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today - to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit 'select,' and start searching. Startpage is now a built-in search option for Firefox users on desktop in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Android and iOS are coming soon. Whether you want to search with Startpage, or another preferred search engine, it's as easy as opening your search settings, picking a default, and done.

And if you're happy with your current search engine, nothing about your setup changes.

Why Europe first

This launch starts in Startpage's home markets: a Netherlands-based search engine, now built into the browser for some of the most privacy-conscious users in the world. At a moment when so much of the web experience is decided by a handful of very large companies, a search option that's private by design and European by origin isn't a small thing.

What Startpage delivers

Startpage delivers full, high-quality search results without the privacy trade off. Queries aren't stored or linked to you, and there are no AI answers pushed above your search results. In fact, there's no AI at all. Based in the Netherlands, Startpage built its product around a simple idea: great search and personal privacy can go hand in hand.

"So much of your web experience is prescribed before you ever open a browser. We'd rather you decide how you want to search. Adding Startpage puts a genuinely private search engine option - real results, zero profiling, AI-free - one click away for millions of people in Europe," said Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox.

Users asked with one billion searches

Startpage ranks among the most-requested search engines in the Firefox community. When demand is this clear, our job is to remove the friction.

"More and more of what people use online comes from a handful of very large companies, and search is where that concentration gets felt most directly. Firefox has always been the browser for people who want to make their own decisions about the web, which makes it a natural home for private search. Firefox users already run over a billion Startpage searches a year. Now Startpage is built in for everyone in these markets," said Stewart Marlborough, President of Startpage.

That's the pattern we want: people who use Firefox every day tell us what they need, and we ship it.

Search is a choice. Firefox treats it like one.

Most browsers have already decided how you're going to search. Firefox hasn't. Pick your search engine, control what happens to your queries, decide who sees data about you, even turn AI on or off. It should always be your call. Not everyone wants the same thing from search, and a browser shouldn't pretend they do.

Try it out

If you're in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, or the Netherlands, update to Firefox 154 and you'll find Startpage in your search settings.

The post A billion searches a year, now built in: Startpage comes to Firefox appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

18 Aug 2026 2:57pm GMT

Browsers make it easy to start things, but picking them back up is another story.

We start planning a trip or researching a purchase, and before long we're comparing options and chasing ideas across dozens of tabs. That work rarely happens in one sitting. When we come back after an interruption, we have to figure out where we were, what we'd already found, and what we were trying to do in the first place.

Smart Window is Firefox's privacy-first, AI-powered browsing experience designed to help people finish what they start online. It works with the context you choose to share, such as your open tabs and relevant browsing history, so you can get back to what you were doing without retracing your steps.

We've spent the last several months building and testing Smart Window in beta with our community. Today, we're adding new capabilities that help you check answers without losing your place, make sense of open tabs and get back to things you've seen before. Together, they help keep a task moving across tabs, searches, and time.

"The browser already has much of the context around what you're trying to do - the research in your tabs, the pages you've visited, the things you've found along the way," said Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox. "With Smart Window, we're exploring how to make more of that context useful while keeping you in control."

What's new in Smart Window

Check answers without losing your place

When you have a question in the middle of a task, getting an answer shouldn't take you out of your flow or require you to track down the sources separately.

Through our new partnership with Exa, Smart Window can now retrieve current web information and show the sources behind its response without taking you to a separate search results page. Learn more about why we chose Exa and what the partnership means for Firefox in our companion post.

Group tabs that belong together

It doesn't take long for a quick search to turn into a browser full of tabs. Once they pile up, keeping track of everything becomes even more work.

Smart Window can now suggest groups for related tabs, making it easier to organize what you have open and return to it later. It can also spot duplicate tabs and close them with a click.

Find your spot again

Sometimes you remember what was on a page better than you remember what it was called or how you got there. Smart Window can now show visual previews of pages in your browsing history, making it easier to spot the page you're looking for among similar results without opening each one to figure out which is which.

Behind the evolution

Last November, we shared an early concept called "AI Window," exploring what it could look like to give people a user-controlled space where they could chat with an AI assistant to get help while browsing. We shared it early because we wanted our community to help shape where it went next.

Over the months that followed, we watched how people used the experience, listened to feedback, and tested new ideas. A consistent theme emerged: people were increasingly using it as part of their everyday browsing - searching, navigating, and working through the things they'd come online to do. The value of the AI assistant came through in how it helped them make progress on those tasks.

We saw the same idea in feedback from beta users. One described using Smart Window to keep track of their "train of thought." Another used it to find something they'd looked at before without remembering exactly where they'd seen it.

Those learnings helped us shape Smart Window into a broader browsing experience that helps people make progress on what they came online to do.

While the product is evolving, the principles we started with remain the same: choice, privacy, and transparency. Smart Window is optional. You choose when to use it, what browsing context it can use to help with a task, and which AI model you want to use. Firefox's AI Controls gives you one place to manage Smart Window, including turning it off entirely, so you can easily choose the browsing experience you want.

What's next

We're continuing to explore ways Smart Window can help carry a task forward, especially when you leave it and come back later.

Soon, Smart Window will be able to surface recent browsing journeys and pull together related tabs and history, giving you a starting point when you return to something you were working on. We're also working on ways for Smart Window to use relevant information to help fill out online forms, so you don't have to re-enter the same details again and again. You'll stay in control of what Smart Window can access, including which tabs you choose to share with it.

Smart Window remains in beta, and we'll keep learning from our community as these experiences develop. It's currently available in English to people in the U.S. and Canada. If it's not available where you are yet, you can sign up to be notified when it is.

To try Smart Window, visit https://www.firefox.com/smart-window.

The post Smart Window: Finish what you start online appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

18 Aug 2026 1:06pm GMT