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Due to racism problems, Google has replaced whitelist and blacklist words in Chrome code with allowlist and blocklist. Github too announced it will rename Master/slave to neutral terms, now Mozilla is joining them. The organization has gone ahead and deprecated the Master Password in the next Firefox version and replaced it with the Primary Password. …
Recent Firefox release brought improvements to the Picture-in-Picture feature. Mozilla is planning to make PiP mode even more awesome. Firefox version 84 allows running multiple Picture in Picture Windows. Here is how you can enable the feature in the Firefox browser. Till now, Firefox on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and Android (Fenix) supports the Picture-in-Picture …
Recently Mozilla released Firefox 82 with Picture in Picture improvements and Performance enhancements. The update triggered printing, crashing issues, and causes automatic website log out issues. Mozilla has throttled automatic updates to Firefox and fixed the Printing issues in Nightly and beta version. Firefox update breaks receipt Printers and misprints PDFS Here is what you …
Firefox 82 to release on October 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. While desktop release brings video playback and watching improvements, the Android version sweeps out tracking cookies automatically by deleting site data periodically. Firefox 82 What you need to know: Mozilla expands redirect tracking protection to …
After updating to Firefox 81, some users reported, they can’t access the twitter website and receiving a “network protocol violation that cannot repair” error The only way to make Twitter work on Firefox was to visit about servicewokers page and unregister Twitter SW. Here, Firefox’s “Strict Tracking Protection” has broken Twitter. Mozilla has identified the …
Fenix development continues. Mozilla is working on a lot of new features for Firefox for Android, Grid View for Tabs is one of them. The feature is now available hidden behind the Secret settings menu, here is how you can enable it. Recently, Mozilla released Firefox 81 for Android with tab closing options, and, Firefox […]
Firefox Javascript JITs engine, codenamed (Warp) received a major update and is enabled by default in Firefox Nightly to bring a speed boost to the browser. Version 83 also brings WebRender to Intel Gen12 GPUs. What is Warp? How it improves Firefox’s performance or memory Warp or WarpBuilder is Mozilla’s project to improve JavaScript performance …
Recently, we reported Firefox for Android Nightly received two popular extensions named Video Background Playback Fix and Google Search Fixer, Mozilla has now added a few more recommended add-ons related to the privacy, Password Management, adblocking, image search, and Productivity and are available in the Nightly version. Mozilla has discontinued Fennec and launched new Firefox …
Mozilla recently released Firefox 81 with Credit Card auto-fill, new Alpenglow theme, new UI for PDF Viewer, PDF form filling, and other features and improvements. The update has also brought support for hardware media keys which allows controlling audio and video with the keyboard. If you don’t like the Media Control feature that displays dated …
In addition to Windows, Mac, Linux, Mozilla has released Firefox v81 for Android also and the latter is now available on the Play Store for download. Both desktop and Android versions come with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Check out what’s new in this release below. Firefox 81 Desktop: Media Control: After Chrome, Firefox …
After making Enhanced Tracking Protection v2.0 available in Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla is now bringing it to Android (Fenix). Currently, ETP 2.0 is available in Firefox for Android Nightly and is part of “Strict Tracking Protection”. With Tracking Protection in place and Web browsers launching new tools to protect users’ privacy such as by blocking …
Mozilla is slowly increasing the number of recommended extensions offered to Firefox for Android users. Till now, Firefox Nightly version lets you install 9 add-ons, these include popular Ublock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere. A few days back, Nightly received two new recommended extensions named “Google Search Fixer” and “Video Background Play Fix”. While you can …