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Firefox users who run outdated versions of the web browser will run into troubles in March 2025 according to Mozilla. The details: Firefox installations on all supported platforms but on iOS are affected, if they do not meet the following minimum versions: Upgrading Firefox is the only way to prevent issues caused by the expiring…
Firefox Translate is a built-in translation feature of the Firefox web browser that is special. It is special, because its translation engine runs locally. That’s great for privacy, as no translation service needs to be contacted on the Internet with information on the site you visited or the content that you want translated. The main…
Mozilla has released another Firefox extension after Orbit. Deep Fake Detector is a free beta extension for Firefox that determines whether text has been created by AI or humans. It is part of Fakespot, a service that Mozilla acquired some time ago. Fakespot checks reviews on popular shopping sites to determine whether they are legitimate….
Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track feature from Firefox. The idea behind it was simple: inform websites that the user of the browser does not want to be tracked. What looked good on paper did not work well in the real world. Many sites ignored the header, which made it ineffective as a…
Linux users who download Firefox from Mozilla to install the browser on their device will experience quicker downloads and installs going forward. Mozilla explained on its Nightly website that it switched the packaging to .tar.xz from the previously used .tar.bz2 format. The change has the following benefits: A 25 percent reduction in file size reduces…
Mozilla has published a video to celebrate the 20th birthday of its Firefox web browser. The video showcases some of the existing features of the web browser and also upcoming features. As far as new features are concerned, there is none that has not been mentioned before. Still, it is a good opportunity to see…
Mozilla released a new version of the Firefox web browser today. Firefox 131.0 is the new stable version of the browser. It is available for all supported operating systems and introduces several new features and improvements. The details: Firefox 131.0: new features Temporary permissions Firefox is not the first web browser to support temporary permissions,…
Tab Groups is a useful browser feature that allows you to group open websites together for better management. Most Chromium-based browsers support Tab Groups, as Google implemented them in Chromium and Chrome. That’s one of the advantages of using an established browser source that is developed constantly. Don’t get me wrong, there are also disadvantages,…
Mozilla has used Adjust in Firefox for mobile products for years for a very specific purpose: to determine if the installation of the mobile browser originated from an advertising campaign. In other words, Adjust helped Mozilla track conversions of its advertising campaigns. It also send anonymous usage summaries occasionally, according to Mozilla. Starting in Firefox…
Security researchers have disclosed a vulnerability that affects all modern browsers. What makes it particularly worrisome is that it has been known for 18 years; that goes back to a time before Google even thought of creating Chrome. The details: In other words: the security issue allows the circumvention of security protections by malicious websites….