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Firefox 42 Released

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

in the news:

Tech Crunch

[Let the HHGTTG quips begin. -Ed]

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  • (Score: 2) by geb on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:05PM

    by geb (529) on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:05PM (#258842)

    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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:15PM

    by Francis (5544) on Thursday November 05 2015, @09:15PM (#259096)

    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.