Firefox Preview 2.0 released, here is what’s new
Firefox Preview 2.0 is now available on Play Store for download with ability to control media playback via a notification and lets you launch private browsing from Home screen
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Mozilla Firefox 69.0.1 is coming out later today with bug fixes
Mozilla is prepping to ship its first dot release for Firefox 69 today with a handful of bug fixes. Firefox 69.0.1 to address a security issue as well, the details are not available at the moment. The minor update prevents “external programs from launching in the background when clicking a link inside from Firefox to […]
Mozilla Plans to release Major Firefox every 4 weeks in 2020
Till now similar to Chrome, Mozilla releases major Firefox version every 6-8 weeks, this to change to 4 weeks in 2020. The company says they’ll adjust Firefox release cadence to increase their agility and bring new features quickly. Mozilla reveals the reason for the change in a blog post: “we’ve had many requests to take […]
Mozilla says “This Extension isn’t Monitored” Warning shown to Users on AMO is a Test
Mozilla revealed why addons.Mozilla.org (AMO) is showing extensions aren’t being monitored notice to users. The organization apparently has confirmed they’re testing this and only a few users are getting it and isn’t a permanent part of AMO yet. They’ll decide whether to keep or modify or drop it after the users reaction. What’s happened? Since …
And the Keyboard shortcut for the Firefox’s Picture in Picture for Video is
Mozilla has now provided a keyboard shortcut to launch focused video in Picture-in-Picture mode in Firefox browser and the shortcut is “Ctrl+Shift+]”. Do note, PiP is currently an experimental feature and is available in beta and Nightly versions of Windows, but not on Mac and Linux. Mozilla doesn’t want to use Picture in Picture Web …
Mozilla Firefox to enable DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default in the US
To improve privacy and performance, starting late September 2019, Mozilla to rollout and enable DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default in Firefox release for users in the US. After conducting many experiments in the last two years, the organization has come to a decision to turn on DoH by default in Firefox. The company believes …
Firefox 69 release brings Enhanced Tracking Protection and Various Performance Improvements to Windows 10 and macOS
Firefox 69 scheduled to release today on September 3, 2019, brings performance and UI improvements to Firefox on Windows 10. Enhanced Tracking Protection is now available to users all around the world with this release and is turned on default. The block autoplay has been improved, which now provides an option to block both audio …
Firefox 70 adds new Certificate Viewer at about:certificate and a Setting to disable Picture in Picture Video Toggle
Mozilla has updated how it displays a site certificate information in Firefox browser by adding a new “certificate viewer” at about:certificate page and the change is enabled by default in Nightly 70. The company also provided a setting to disable Picture-in-Picture Video toggle icon in the Preferences. As of now, if you now view any …
Firefox 70 now Shows Grey Lock for HTTPS Sites instead of Green
After moving EV indicator out of URL bar, Mozilla has made the lock icon which Firefox shows for HTTPS sites in identity block to appear in “grey” color instead of “green”. This is an experiment and the change is enabled by default in Nightly, if you like to see Green lock in the address bar …
Firefox Preview to get Enhanced Tracking Protection
Mozilla is planning to bring Enhanced Tracking Protection from desktop Firefox to Firefox Preview on Android, check out the screenshots
Multi-Process (e10s) can still be disabled in Firefox 68 or later versions, here is how
You can still forcibly disable Multiprocess mode aka e10s in Firefox browser in version 68 or later, on Windows by setting an environment vairable, here is how
Chrome and Firefox browsers to remove Extended Validation (EV) Certificate indicators from URL bar
You may no longer see Extended Validation Certificate (EV Certificate for short) indicators for websites in the URL bar in Chrome and Firefox browsers. The next Chrome 77 will get this change and the browser will show EV information in the Page Info dialog, Mozilla to follow Google and to remove the EV indicator from …