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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by MadTinfoilHatter on Thursday November 05 2015, @12:58PM
What brain damaged features, that we need to work around with addons or obscure about:config settings in order to have a usable browser have they introduced this time?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bd on Thursday November 05 2015, @01:45PM
I agree. To think that something that got rid of the ridiculous pile of whatever that was the Mozilla browser is now exactly the kind of beast it once replaced... kinda depressing. IMHO, Phoenix 0.5 with a modern rendering engine would actually be an improvement on most of the popular browers as far as user interfaces go.
They jumped the shark as far as I am concerned when they disabled the option to allow self-signed https. I still don't know how that is supposed to make me more secure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:05PM
I use FF with self signed certs with no problem. You just need to accept the cert the first time.
(Score: 2) by quadrox on Friday November 06 2015, @07:51AM
Or even better, add your own CA cert to the trusted CA list. Won't have to manually accept a single cert after that.
(Score: 2) by geb on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:05PM
They've added an indicator on tabs to show which one is playing audio. Personally I don't like it, so I disabled it.
It's not a bad one really.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:15PM
I'm looking forward to that. But, it is nice to see that I can disable it if I think it's annoying. I just find that all too often there's a video or some bullshit that starts playing and I don't know where.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:40PM
The plugin system changes mean that I will never use a Firefix version past 41 except for testing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 05 2015, @11:39PM
It breaks Tree Style Tabs (or maybe it breaks something else, and the broken tree style tabs behaviour is only a symptom).
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