Firefox Nightly offers Options in Preferences to enable Tracking Protection in Normal Mode

Current Firefox version’s Private browsing mode has tracking protection enabled by default (but not in normal mode or non-private windows), recently, in Nightly build, Mozilla has removed the Polaris preference from about:config and enabled UI to toggle tracking protection by default in non-private windows.

Till now, to enable TP in normal mode, user need to visit about:config and change privacy.trackingprotection.enabled preference value to ‘true (this works on all channels)’, this no longer required in latest Nightly.

Nightly users can now turn on tracking Protection in normal mode by selecting Always in Privacy of the Options under ‘Use Tracking Protection‘.

Always or never options for using tracking Protection in Firefox

You can confirm tp is enabled or not in NM by visiting the Control Center (that shows site privacy and security controls in one place in the address bar), which displays the tracking Protection badge and information about tracking elements detected on the page you’re on.

Remember, this is an experiment only, may not be shipped to release channel users.

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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