Mozilla Firefox feature gets special mention in TIME's Best Inventions of 2025

TIME Magazine has had this tradition since the year 2000, where it spotlights impactful new creations. The list began with about 35 inventions but has expanded over the years to keep up with innovation.

In this year's list of notable creations, Mozilla Firefox's Shake to Summarize got a special mention, something Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, general manager of Firefox, calls a "testament to the incredible work of our UX, design, product, and engineering teams who brought this innovation to life."

Shake to summarize works exactly how you suspect: you physically shake your phone to generate a summary of a long article. This can be quite handy if you are trying to get the gist of a long read without scrolling through the whole thing. Other ways to activate the feature include tapping the thunderbolt icon in the address bar and selecting "Summarize Page" from the three-dot menu.

For now, the feature is limited to iOS users in the US with their system set to English, but Mozilla promises an Android version is in the works. If you have an iPhone 15 Pro or newer running iOS 26, Apple Intelligence generates the summaries on the device. For older iPhones or those on earlier iOS versions, the page text is sent to Mozilla's servers for processing.

This is not the first time a browser or a browser feature has appeared in TIME's annual list. The Arc browser got a main spot back in 2023 for its design, which strayed away from the traditional browser layout we're used to. Instead of tabs at the top, Arc uses a sidebar to manage everything. Other non-traditional elements include its "Spaces" for separating work and personal browsing, and a built-in Split View for looking at multiple pages at once.

In other Firefox news, the browser is finally getting a profile management feature. These profiles are a bit different from Mozilla's existing multi-account containers.

While containers only isolate data like cookies and logins within a single profile, the new profiles feature will create a complete separation of all browsing data, including history, bookmarks, and extensions for each profile you make.