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Mozilla releases Firefox version 100 this week

Enlarge / A special 100th-version splash page appears on the first launch of a new Firefox installation. (credit: Samuel Axon) Firefox released its 100th update, and some fanfare accompanied the release on Mozilla’s blog about the web browser. Firefox 100 is available this week for both desktop and mobile versions. To celebrate, Mozilla says it […]

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Mozilla apparently makes and is discontinuing a VR version of Firefox

Enlarge (credit: Mozilla) If you didn’t know that Mozilla made a VR-specific version of Firefox called Firefox Reality, then it’s OK for you to continue not knowing, because Mozilla announced today that it would be discontinuing support for the browser a little over three years after introducing it. The Spanish co-op Igalia will pick up […]

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Firefox 95 for Windows and Mac introduces RLBox, a new sandboxing tech

Enlarge / A minimalist view of the Firefox web browser. (credit: Firefox) Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, Firefox 95, for Windows and macOS. It’s available now for all users on both platforms. The Firefox team says the new macOS version reduces CPU usage during event processing and that power usage is reduced […]

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Firefox 94 for iOS and Android adds new features for bookmarks and tabs

Enlarge / Mozilla’s current logo for Firefox. (credit: Mozilla) Today, Mozilla updated the mobile versions of its Firefox web browser on iOS and Android with an overhauled home page and a new tab management feature. Mozilla wrote in a blog post today announcing the update that the mobile version of the browser is specifically designed […]

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PowerPC fork of Firefox that lasted for over a decade has reached the end of the road

Enlarge / An old PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10. 5 Leopard, Microsoft Word 2008, and the TenFourFox browser. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) It has been well over a decade since PowerPC Macs roamed the earth—so long that the Intel Macs that replaced them are themselves being changed by something else. But to this day, […]

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Today’s Firefox 91 release adds new site-wide cookie-clearing action

Enlarge / This menacing firefox seems to be on the prowl for unwanted third-party cookies. (credit: Hung Chung Chih via Getty Images) Mozilla’s Firefox 91, released this morning, includes a new privacy management feature called Enhanced Cookie Clearing. The new feature allows users to manage all cookies and locally stored data generated by a particular […]

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Firefox 89 delivered more speed—today’s Firefox 90 adds SmartBlock 2.0

Enlarge / The red panda of the Internet just keeps getting better. (credit: Kiszon Pascal via Getty Images) Today, Mozilla launched Firefox 90. The newest version of Mozilla’s increasingly privacy-focused browser adds improved print-to-PDF functionality, individual exceptions to HTTPS-only mode, an about:third-party page to help identify compatibility issues introduced by third-party applications, and a new […]

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Firefox 87 is out today, adds Smart Block for improved private browsing

Enlarge / You aren’t trying to leak any data to third-party sites, are you? No? OK then. Carry on, friend. (credit: Josh Blouin / US Fish and Wildlife Service) Mozilla released Firefox 87.0 this morning, the latest version of its open source web browser. Following on the heels of December’s Firefox 85 and February’s Firefox […]

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Firefox 86 brings multiple Picture-in-Picture, “Total Cookie Protection”

I installed Firefox 86 on my Ubuntu workstation using Snap, to be certain I wouldn’t accidentally mess with my working system configuration. [credit: Jim Salter ] Mozilla released Firefox 86 yesterday, and the browser is now available for download and installation for all major operating systems, including Android. Along with the usual round of bug […]

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Firefox continues Stripping down on Monitoring with cache partitioning

Expand / / Implementing the browser cache into different pools averts complex timing probes that allow you website understand if you are logged into a different. (charge: Mozilla / / Jim Salter) Firefox variant 85 will likely be published from January 2021, and also among its attributes is raised user solitude via advancements in client-side […]