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Mozilla Firefox coverage from Techdows: what is new in each release, useful settings and about:config tweaks, extension tips, and fixes for common Firefox problems on Windows, Mac, and Android. Guides are updated as new Firefox versions ship.
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 …
Mozilla is planning to bring Enhanced Tracking Protection from desktop Firefox to Firefox Preview on Android, check out the screenshots
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
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 …
Recently we’ve reported Firefox Nightly blocks Social Media Trackers on websites and shield icon in the address bar shows them in the protections panel if social widgets are detected on websites. Mozilla now updated the Enhanced Tracking Protection preferences for Standard, Strict and Custom tracking protection modes to reflect those in Firefox 70. Mozilla has …
Mozilla’s Project Fission to run cross-origin iframes in separate content processes is now available for testing in Firefox 70 Nightly. We’ve written instructions on how to enable Fission in Firefox, but at that time, Mozilla officially hasn’t acknowledged the feature is ready for testing, now it is. Google Chrome already has Site Isolation feature available …
After releasing Firefox 68, Mozilla released first dot release 68.0.1 on July 18, 2019, today on August 14, the organization is preparing to publish Firefox 68.0.2 to address some other bugs found in current Firefox release. Mozilla discovered a bug in Firefox search function, where special characters from a search term such as Sharp, hash, …
Mozilla working to bring Social Tracking Protection to Firefox 70 to display social media trackers blocked on websites in Tracking protection panel
Mozilla has published an update for Firefox Preview app on Google Play Store and is available for download. This is the second update thats been pushed to the app after it has been made publicly available on Google Play and the app is now has version number 1.1.0. If you don’t know, Firefox Preview that […]
Firefox users runnning version 68 on Windows 7 with latest Avast or AVG free antivirus installed noticing Firefox is hanging on strartup when launched,
Mozilla has made a change towards marking HTTP sites as insecure in Firefox 70 by removing “‘i” icon in the address bar, it now displays a crossed lock icon for an HTTP page in the URL bar, the change is already landed and can be seen in the latest Nightly version. We expected this coming, […]
Mozilla to release Firefox 68.0.1 today on July 18, 2019, to address bugs found in Firefox 68. For Firefox to run properly on macOS 10.15 Cataline beta releases, starting version 68.0.1 Firefox releases for Mac are signed by Apple Notary service. The dot release also fixes a couple of issues related to search engines. Firefox […]