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Tab previews allow you to hover over open tabs in the Firefox web browser to get a preview of the page’s content. Mozilla added the functionality into Firefox Nightly this week. Reason enough to take a look at the feature. Tab Previews are only available in Firefox Nightly at the time of writing. The feature…
Mozilla released Firefox 122 for the desktop and for Android a few days ago. The desktop release was a light release. The highlight was a new -.deb package release for Linux users. The Firefox 122 for Android release, on the other hand, introduced several improvements that are noteworthy. The official release notes list just a…
The road towards a full extension ecosystem in Firefox for Android was long and difficult. Mozilla Firefox for Android supported the majority of desktop extensions for a long time. This changed when Mozilla switched from Firefox’s own native extensions system to the one used by Google Chrome and Chromium. Suddenly, users of Firefox for Android…
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser maintains its own root certificate store by default. The browser uses these as “trust anchors” and the functionality is essential for making sure that only trusted SSL/TLS certificates are used by the browser. Starting in Firefox 120, Firefox will automatically trust operating sysdtem certificates installed by the user or an administrators….
Mozilla plans to integrate support for Early Hints in the Firefox web browser. The feature may improve the time it takes to load webpages by up to 30% according to early studies. Cloudflare announced Early Hints back in 2021 as a novel way to speed up the loading of webpages. Then, in 2022, the company…
Mozilla plans to enable cookie banner blocking in Firefox 120, but initially only in Germany. Other regions will follow at later point in time. Firefox users may, however, enable the blocking already. Many websites display cookie consent banners to users. These banners give website visitors a choice regarding the use of cookies. Cookies are data…