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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….
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…