Mozilla has given its privacy-focused mobile browser, the Firefox Focus, a makeover for both iOS 12 and the Google’s newest mobile OS Android Pie. Both versions come with elements to fit each mobile platform’s aesthetic — the one for iOS 12, for instance, has menus with more rounded corners. The one optimized for Android Pie, […]
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Firefox is the latest browser to block autoplaying web audio
Firefox is finally joining the ranks of web browsers that block autoplaying web sounds. Mozilla’s latest Nightly builds for Firefox now include an option to mute autoplaying audio, hopefully saving you from jumping out of your seat when an obnoxious video ad makes its presence felt. It’s finer-grained than Chrome’s recently removed automatic muting, too. […]
Firefox Focus can lock your tabs behind Face ID
If you use Firefox Focus for its privacy features, you’d love its latest version for iOS. You can now set it up so that it auto-locks when it’s relegated to the background. The only way to unlock it if you choose to switch the feature on is by verifying your identity with the biometrics saved […]
Firefox and 1Password now bring data breach notifications to you
Firefox and 1Password have made it much easier to find out if your email address and password have ever been been leaked due to a data breach. 1Password now comes integrated with the Have I Been Pwned service, allowing you to check your credentials against the database within its interface, while Firefox is testing a […]
Chrome and Firefox leaks let sites steal visitors’ Facebook names, profile pics
Enlarge (credit: Ruslan Habalov) For more than a year, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome may have leaked users’ Facebook usernames, profile pictures, and likes if the users’ browsers visited malicious websites that employed a cutting-edge hack, researchers said Thursday. The data could be extracted through what’s known as a side-channel vulnerability in the browsers’ implementation […]
Firefox can block pesky site notification requests
Website push notifications can be helpful. The way you’re asked to enable those notifications? Not so much — the constant requests can drive you up the wall when you’re just trying to check the latest news. Mozilla is coming to your rescue. Its newly released Firefox 59 for the desktop gives you the option to […]
Firefox faces backlash for auto-installing ‘Mr. Robot’ add-on
A curious add-on called “Looking Glass” started popping up on Firefox for a number of users this past week — even if they didn’t give the browser permission to install it. Due to its nebulous nature and creepy description that only said “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT FROM YOURS,” people took to social networks to […]
Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is The Browser Built for 2017
The new Firefox is fast, it’s secure, and it’s full of clever little things that make web browsing better. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a15c6eefaf57646d4130b6d/master/pass/firefox-TA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Firefox will soon flag sites that have been hacked
Firefox has having a good run right now, having just released its much speedier and better-looking Quantum browser. It’s now working on a new feature that security fans are bound to like: It will warn you if you’re visiting a site that has suffered a data breach. Firefox is working on the feature in collaboration […]
Torrent SHOCK – Leading site used by pirates BLOCKED on Google Chrome and Firefox
Torrent fans have seen TorrentDownloads, one of the most popular torrent sites on the internet, get blocked by leading browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. For the past two years TorrentDownloads has been one of the top 10 torrent sites on the internet. In 2016 it was ranked as the tenth most popular torrent site, […]
