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Recently, there has been a bit of a revival when it comes to forks of the Firefox browser. After Mullvad Browser, it is now Zen Browser that is trying to win the Internet by storm. The Firefox-based browser is available as an alpha at the time of writing. Despite that, it felt very stable during…
Google Chrome users who have extensions installed may soon have some or even all of their installed extensions disabled by Google. While all browser extensions may be impacted, it is ad blockers and privacy extensions that are impacted the most. One example: uBlock Origin, arguably the most loved and powerful content blocker available for browsers,…
With the release of Firefox 128 came the integration of a new experimental feature that Mozilla calls Privacy-Preserving Attribution. The feature is turned on by default, which means that users of the browser need to become active, if they want to disable it. Mozilla published a support webpage that explains that Privacy-Preserving Attribution is. Here…
Mozilla has changed the original end of support deadline for Firefox on Windows 7 and Windows 8 devices. The organization’s original plan was to end support in September 2024. This coincided with the release of the next Firefox ESR base and would allow Mozilla to unload legacy code from Firefox. Byron Jourdan, Mozilla’s Senior Director…
Mozilla plans to release the first Firefox 127 point update later today. Firefox 127.0.1 will be released for all supported platforms. It is a non-security update that fixes four different issues in the browser. The release won’t include the fix for YouTube playback issues mentioned earlier this week. It will be in Firefox 127.0.2, so…
For approximately four months, some Firefox users have experienced video playback issues while playing videos on YouTube. Affected users noted that certain videos would stop playing on the site all of a sudden. YouTube would show a loading animation and it appeared that buffering was the culprit in many cases. When Mozilla started to analyze…
Mozilla has launched support for Tab Previews in Firefox Nightly officially. Firefox displays a thumbnail image of the open webpage on hover once the feature is enabled. Current versions of Firefox display just the title of the website on hover. Firefox shows just the first few characters of a title on the tab itself by…
Mozilla is working on improving the profile management capabilities of its Firefox web browser. While Firefox has supported profiles for a long time, managing and switching between profiles has not been exactly user friendly. Currently, Firefox users have two main options to manage profiles. The first is accessible by loading about:profiles in the Firefox address…
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser could soon block sites and services from bounce tracking Firefox users to improve privacy. Bounce tracking is a widely used form of tracking that redirects requests. This form of tracking happens in the background, which means that users are usually not aware of it. Here is an example. A click on…
Mozilla plans to release Firefox 125.0.3 later today. The point update fixes five non-security issues in the browser. Here are the bugs: Firefox users affected by one of the issues may want to update the browser as soon as possible. Everyone else should not feel in a hurry to update to the new version. The…