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posted by martyb on Thursday November 05 2015, @10:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the six-times-nine dept.

Mozilla Firefox 42 has been released.

In this version, Monica Chew's cross-site tracking protection (announced 10 November 2014) is now enabled during private browsing mode. Previously, the feature could be turned on by configuring privacy.trackingprotection.enabled via about:config—a situation which led to a ZDnet editorial criticizing Mozilla for a "lack of commitment" to the feature. Tracking protection blocks loading of elements from the third-party sites that are included in a blacklist from Disconnect. Besides hindering tracking, it is said to significantly reduce the load times of some pages. The blocked elements can include "analytics, social network buttons and display advertising."

The new version also corrects 17 security flaws, better indicates a site's security, and adds tools for animators.

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[Let the HHGTTG quips begin. -Ed]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:25AM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:25AM (#258780)

    it is said to significantly reduce the load times of some pages

    Although addons have been doing this for a while, it is really a sad day when the browser itself has to fix mis-features in web pages themselves.

    There really needs to be a punishment for sites that do scummy or bloated things. Preferably including jail time :P . Or perhaps Google should just warn you in their results, such as:

    HerpDerp Web Site
    www.blablasomedumbsite.com/duh
    This site may be crap.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by geb on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:03PM

    by geb (529) on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:03PM (#258840)

    Google's AMP project is working towards exactly that, but it's doing it in a foolish way. It blocks almost everything that could cause slow page loading, including all javascript, but then it adds extra scripting stuff to allow google's own tracking and advertising.

    Instead of just ranking sites higher for using less crap in a page, they're inventing their own crap that is incompatible with everybody else's.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:37PM (#259040)

      Sounds like a microsoft sort of tactic to me. Block the rest and enhance their own. That does much of what is being blocked anyway.

      Sorry, I still believe that web pages should have the server load on the server. The browser can parse/shape the data, and receive some commands to do it, but I refuse to accept a new protocol standard that has tracking enhancements for Google as part of the package.

      Don't tell me MS wouldn't have done this back then if this was an option back then. Inventing their own crap and releasing tools that favor their own crap sounds like more of the same, regardless of who is wearing the emperor's new clothes.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:18PM (#258850)

    You're right and it's the reason people hated IE.
    IE started fixing problems with websites just so that they would at least still render 'more or less correctly'. I wonder if, in a couple of years, FF will be where IE was a couple of years ago: vilified and reviled because of all the backwards compat and illogical quirks it has just because at some point, they decided that they should fix bugs put in by dumb 'web developers'.
    I expect to see in websites any time now

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:25PM (#258851)

      The thing I was expecting to see in the previous comment is:
      <!-- [ FF gt; 43 ] -->

    • (Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:09PM

      by Francis (5544) on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:09PM (#259019)

      while I don't think it's a good idea for Fx to be doing that, it's hardly an apples to apples comparison. When IE was doing that, its market share was over 90%. I don't think anybody can accuse Mozilla of having enough users to be able to control the market.