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Mozilla sent Firefox Version 133.0 to the release channel.  Firefox ESR was updated to Version 128.5. 

Note: For Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, Firefox Version 115 is the last supported version for those operating systems and will be moved to the latest ESR version by automatic update.  See Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release.

The update includes seventeen security updates of which two (2) are rated high, nine (9) are rated moderate, and six (6) are rated low.

Update: To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu, then pick "About Firefox".  Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu.  For non-English versions, Fully Localized Versions are available for download.

References

• Security Updates
• Release Notes
• Rapid Release Calendar

Today Microsoft Edge Game Assist was introduced, described as the first in-game browser that delivers a rich gaming-centric browsing experience—including access to your browser data from your PC and mobile devices.

Learn about the details of Microsoft Edge Game Assist at Introducing Microsoft Edge Game Assist (Preview)—a seamless, full-featured in-game browser.

Note that Game Assist requires the Beta or Preview channel of Microsoft Edge and it is important that Windows 11 and Game Bar are up to date.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4515 (Beta Channel)

New features gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle

Ability to seamlessly resume OneDrive files in 1-click from your phone to PC
We are gradually rolling out the ability to seamlessly resume working on OneDrive files from your phone (iOS and Android) on your Windows 11 PC with a single click. With this feature, you will get a notification asking you if you want to pick up where you left off editing a OneDrive file like a Word doc that you last viewed or edited on your phone within a 5-minute time window preceding unlocking your PC.

Upon clicking on this notification, the same file that you were viewing or editing previously on your phone will open in your default browser on your PC.

Here are some important details about how this feature works:

• This feature works only when signing into OneDrive with a Microsoft account. Work and school accounts are not supported. And you need to be using the same Microsoft account signing into OneDrive on your phone and signing into your Windows 11 PC.
• This feature supports Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, OneNote notebooks/pages, and PDFs.
• The OneDrive file must be opened on your phone when your PC is locked. If you then unlock your PC within 5 minutes of accessing the file on your phone, you will receive the resume notification as noted above.
  
• For the best experience using this feature, you should be logged into OneDrive in your default browser on your PC.
• Your PC should be on Build 22635.4515 and higher in the Beta Channel.

This feature can be managed and turned off via Settings > Apps > Resume.

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Devices and Drivers -> Linked Phone.

Passwordless Improvements

As part of Microsoft's commitment to a passwordless future, on Windows, we are launching API support for third-party passkey providers. Microsoft has been engaging with passkey manager partners on developing this capability. We are committed to bringing a passwordless future to all customers – together with third-party credential providers, we will raise the bar on login security with passkeys for all users on Windows.

WebAuthn Plugin Authenticator APIs

We are releasing updates to WebAuthn APIs to support a plugin authentication model for passkeys. In the coming months, Windows customers will be able to choose a third-party provider as an additional choice alongside the native Windows passkey provider while maintaining the Windows Hello user experience. Messages in WebAuthn flows will be forwarded to the plugin and responses are returned to the WebAuthn client applications. This enables plugins to create and authenticate with passkeys when requested by the customer. This model allows plugins to use Windows Hello as a user verification mechanism to enable a seamless passkey experience. You will notice additional user experience updates to the passkey flows and Settings alongside the new capabilities.

If you are a developer for third-party passkeys, we invite you to integrate with Windows 11 to support customers in their passkey journey. To find out more about implementation detail, go to https://aka.ms/3P-Plugin-API.

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Security and Privacy > Passkey.

Changes and Improvements gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

[Start menu]

• We are rolling out the ability to right-click and share local files under the Recommended section of the Start menu.

[Magnifier]

• We're adding a new keyboard shortcut CTRL + ALT + Minus for Magnifier users to quickly toggle between the current zoom and 1X zoom.

Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Beta Channel with toggle on

[File Explorer]

• Fixed an issue where sometimes you would be unable to navigate by entering a path in the address bar.
• Fixed an issue where the File Explorer address bar was unexpectedly overlapping with content while in full screen (F11) view.
• Improved performance of context menu launch for people when right-clicking on cloud files.
• Made a change to help ensure thumbnails for cloud files are displayed more consistently in search results within File Explorer.
• Fixed an issue which was causing some explorer.exe crashes in the last couple flights, including when trying to create new folders in certain locations.

Previewing Recall with Click to Do on Copilot+ PCs with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel

Join the Dev Channel on your Copilot+ PC
Here is how you can join the Dev Channel on your Copilot+ PC today (we have a video too!):

• Register for the Windows Insider Program here via our website with your Microsoft account or Microsoft Entra ID. This should be the same account you use to sign into your Copilot+ PC with.
  
• After you have registered, go to Settings > Windows Update > Windows Insider Program on your PC and select the Get Started button.
  
• When asked to link an account, choose the account you're signed into Windows with and be sure that it is the same account you registered for the program with.
• Choose the Dev Channel and reboot.
  
• After rebooting and signing into your Copilot+ PC, go to Settings > Windows Update and check for updates and Build 26120.2415 should be offered.
  
• Your PC will download the update and reboot to finish the update process.

New Copilot+ PC experiences

Retrace your steps
We're excited to release the first preview of Recall to our Windows Insider community. Recall is an entirely new way to search for things you've seen or done on your PC securely. With the AI capabilities of Copilot+ PCs, it's now possible to quickly find and get back to any app, website, image, or document just by describing its content.

We invite you to try out Recall and share feedback, issues, or suggestions for improvement through in-experience links or the Feedback Hub. We also want to recognize the contributions of researchers and the security community in shaping Recall. If you're an Insider also in this group, we additionally invite feedback on Recall's updated security and privacy architecture through participation in our Windows Insider Preview Bug Bounty Program.

As is typical when first previewing new features with Windows Insiders, you may encounter some known issues listed at the bottom of this blog post we highly recommend you read.

Setup: After installing this build, the models for Recall and Click to Do will start to download in the background. You can check the download status via Settings > Windows Update. To open Recall you can find it in the Start menu under the All apps list.

When you open Recall, you can complete the first-run experience, which will ask you to opt-in to saving snapshots. It will also require you to enroll in Windows Hello to confirm your presence. This requires you to enable BitLocker and Secure Boot if you haven't already. If you don't enable saving snapshots, Recall will not save any snapshots of your activity.

Find It: Use your PC as you normally would. When you need to find or get back to something you've done previously, open Recall and authenticate with Windows Hello. As we use our PCs throughout the day working on documents or presentations, taking video calls, and context switching across activities, Recall helps you find things faster and easier and reduces the strain when you can't remember something. Search using the clues you remember. You can not only search for the text you need to get back to, but now simply describe what you're looking for ("pie chart"). You can also browse the timeline to see snapshots from a specific time you remember and get right back to that document or website quickly. Recall's search results leverage AI to provide both text and visual matches for your query. AI can make mistakes, if the results aren't accurate or don't look right, please provide us with feedback using the feedback link. When you've found what you were looking for, you can get back to the application, website, or document, or use Click to Do to act on any image or text in the snapshot you found. You can learn more about using Recall here.

Control: With Recall, you're in control of what snapshots are saved and when Recalls saves them. A new icon in the system tray displays status and provides quick access to Recall actions. When Recall is enabled, you'll see the Recall icon visible. It provides visual cues to remind you when snapshots are being analyzed and saved. Click the icon and you will be able to pause saving snapshots or view more status information. When paused, you see a slash through the icon.

You can delete any snapshot in Recall that you don't want and tell Recall to ignore that app or website in that snapshot going forward, either when viewing an individual snapshot or by searching for what you want deleted and removing those results.

Your data: Insiders and Recall users, we want you to know your snapshots are truly yours. We do not send your snapshots off your PC to Microsoft or third parties, and don't use them for training purposes. Microsoft can't access the keys to view your encrypted data, so we can't restore your snapshots if you remove Windows Hello or restore your snapshots if you need to reset your PC or move to a new PC. We will in future updates provide ways for you to store a backup of your keys for these cases. For now, your Copilot + PC only releases the keys to use Recall if you show your face, fingerprint, or PIN. Please note that while in preview, we may make updates that require a reset of your saved snapshots and will let you know here. Technical Insiders can learn more about the security and privacy architecture of Recall here.

Privacy: We've updated Recall to detect sensitive information like credit card details, passwords, and personal identification numbers. When detected, Recall won't save or store those snapshots. We'll continue to improve this functionality, and if you find sensitive information that should be filtered out, for your context, language, or geography, please let us know through Feedback Hub. We've also provided an option in Settings that we encourage you to enable that will anonymously share the apps and sites you prefer to be excluded from Recall to help us improve the product. And you can also choose to exclude specific apps and websites through the Recall settings page which we talk about below.

Settings: Try out the additional settings available to configure Recall. Changing Recall settings requires you to authenticate with Windows Hello. You can disable saving snapshots, pause temporarily, filter applications and websites in supported browsers, control disk usage, and delete your snapshots at any time via Settings > Privacy and security > Recall and snapshots. Please provide us with feedback if additional settings would improve your experience. You can also remove Recall entirely by typing "Turn Windows features on or off" in the search box on your taskbar. Uncheck Recall from the dialog and restart your PC.

Enterprises: As announced at Ignite, for our enterprise customers, Recall is removed by default on PCs managed by an IT administrator for work or school, as well as Enterprise versions of Windows 11. IT administrators fully control the availability of Recall within their organization. Employees must choose to opt-in to saving snapshots and enroll their face or fingerprint with Windows Hello for snapshots to be saved. Only the signed-in user can access and decrypt Recall data, so although enterprises cannot access employee Recall data, they can prevent Recall from being used altogether and prevent any saving of specific apps or sites. IT administrators can click here to learn more about managing Recall on Copilot+ PCs in their organizations.

Recall (Preview) will begin to rollout on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, with support for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs coming soon. As we gradually roll out Recall in preview, Recall is supported on select languages including Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. Content-based and storage limitations apply. See here for more details. Recall is not yet available in all regions, with expanded availability coming over time.

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Desktop Environment > Recall or through in-experience links.

Click to Do (Preview) with Recall

With Click to Do in Recall, you can get more done with snapshots and improve your productivity and creativity. Click to Do recognizes text and images in snapshots and offers AI powered actions you can take on these, saving you time by helping complete tasks inline, and/or quickly getting you to the app that can best complete the job for you.

For text, Click to Do offers the following actions:

• Copy: Easily copy text to your clipboard.
  
• Open with: Open the selected text with your preferred application.
  
• Search the web: Quickly search the web for the selected text.
  
• Open website: Open any URL you recognize on screen in your preferred browser
  
• Send email: Send email to the email address recognized on screen in your preferred email app
  

For image, Click to Do provides a variety of options:

• Copy: Copy the image to your clipboard.
  
• Save as: Save the image to your desired location.
  
• Share: Share the image with others.
  
• Open with: Open the image with your preferred application.
  
• Visual search with Bing: Perform a visual search and surface relevant contents using Bing.
  
• Blur background with Photos: Blur the background of the image using Photos app.
  
• Erase objects with Photos: Erase unwanted objects from the image using Photos app.
  
• Remove background with Paint: Remove the background of the image using Paint app.
  

In this update Click to Do only works within the Recall experience. In a future update, you'll be able to effortlessly engage with Click to Do by simply pressing Windows logo key + mouse click, Windows logo key + Q, through the snipping tool menu and Print Screen, or searching "Click to Do" through Windows Search Box. These methods will make it easier than ever to take immediate action on whatever catches your eye on-screen. We're also working on introducing more intelligent text actions to enhance your experience even further.

Just like with Recall noted above, Click to Do (Preview) is available only on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs. Support for Intel and AMD-powered Copilot+ PCs is coming soon.

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Desktop Environment > Click to Do.

Other changes included in this Dev Channel update

This update (Build 26120.2415) includes additional changes and improvements available to Windows Insiders across every Windows 11 PCs. These changes include:

• New features, improvements, and fixes that are being gradually rolled out for Insiders who have turned on the toggle to get the latest updates as they are available (via Settings > Windows Update*).
• New features, improvements, and fixes rolling out to everyone in the Dev Channel.

For more information, see the Reminders section at the bottom of the blog post.

Changes and Improvements gradually being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on

[Windows Hello]

• The revamped and modernized Windows Hello user experience that is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Beta and Canary Channels will start rolling out to Insiders in the Dev Channel soon.
  

[Narrator]

• We have added new functionalities to Narrator scan mode. Skip past links (N') allows you to navigate to the text after a link. This is most helpful when navigating through long emails, news articles, and wiki pages. Jump to lists (L') allows you to quickly access a list on a web page or a document. To try these new features, you need to turn on Narrator first (Win key + Ctrl + Enter), then turn scan mode ON by pressing Caps Lock + Spacebar and finally use the new shortcuts – 'N' and 'L'. Please note that scan mode is 'ON' by default on most web pages (like news articles, wiki page, etc.).

[Speech in Windows]

• We have improved our speech-to-text and text-to-speech experience on Windows. Users of Narrator, voice access, live captions, live translations, and voice typing might see a message asking them to update their language files manually. The language files will be released separately through Microsoft Store.

Fixes gradually being rolled out to the Dev Channel with toggle on

[Taskbar & System Tray]

• Fixed an issue causing explorer.exe to crash sometimes when interacting with app icons in the taskbar in the latest flights.

[Desktop]

• Fixed the issue where your desktop background may not show correctly sometimes with multiple monitors (showing big black areas).

[File Explorer]

• Did some work so the search box in File Explorer shouldn't draw off the end of the window anymore.

[Input]

• Fixed an underlying issue in the last few flights that could cause Windows wheel devices to not scroll.
  

[Narrator]

• Fixed an issue in the previous flight which caused Narrator to crash on launch if you used one of the natural voices (like Jenny).

 I fallowed these instructions and type canon power shot or (CW8104aW_installer.exe), then click on open file location then properties but i can never find Compatibility?

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938

Before you give up on this I've seen another option we could try compatibility mode Ron
Check this out and see if you're able to run the camera software in compatibility mode..

Paddy...

Make older apps or programs compatible with Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938