With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy

Soon you’ll need to interact to see the notification requests

Firefox users won't be able to sideload extensions starting March 2020, with Firefox 74.

Firefox is continuing its fight against Facebook and Google's online ad tracking empire. The browser, owned by Mozilla, will now block third-party tracking cookies by default. This Enhanced Tracking Protection will be automatically turned on for all global users as part of the standard setting. The improved privacy features have been trialled on new users since June 2019, and currently cover 20 per cent of users. From today, this will increase to 100 per cent of people using the Firefox.

Using the 'Track THIS' tool opens up 100 tabs at a time that will make you seem like a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer.

After more than a year ratcheting up its privacy protections, Firefox now blocks website cookies that can let advertisers and publishers track you on the web. Cookies are small text files that websites can store in your browser -- either first-party cookies from the operator of the website or third-party cookies that can come along for the ride from advertising and analytics firms.

Mozilla makes privacy job No.1 in Firefox.

Browser makers are using privacy features to try to win us over.

What just happened? On Friday night as the clocks struck midnight, users of Mozilla's Firefox browser discovered that any add-ons they had installed no longer worked. Mozilla have ascertained that an expired security certificate is to blame and a hotfix is being deployed now.

Incident summary Updates - Last Updated: 16:25 EDT May 5 2019 A Firefox release has been pushed -- version 66.0.4 on Desktop and ...

Mozilla also plans to be more aggressive towards taking down extensions that break its policies, with a focus on security issues.

Only Firefox (and Brave, which is a derivative of Chromium), have hyperlink auditing turned off by default.

Mozilla has released Firefox 66 with autoplaying content (audio and video) blocked by default, smoother scrolling, better search, and more.

It has really annoyed me for a while that some time ago firefox put all the tabs in the window title bar. (On a Mac). I use a lot of tabs and a lot of windows so clicking on a firefox window to bring it forward or drag it became much more difficult. I just discovered there is an option at the bottom of the customise page called "title bar" that puts it back.

Last year, Chrome introduced changes to try to prevent the persistent nuisance that is pages that automatically play noisy videos. Next month, Firefox will be following suit; Firefox 66, due on March 19, will prevent the automatic playback of any video that contains audio. Mozilla's plan for Firefox is a great deal simpler and a great deal stricter than Chrome's system. In Chrome, Google has a heuristic that tries to distinguish between those sites where autoplaying is generally welcome (Netflix and YouTube, for example) and those where it isn't (those annoying sites that have autoplaying video...

Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound.

Version 65.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 29, 2019. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

The Internet is a huge playground, but also has a few dark corners. In order to ensure that users still feel secure and protected while browsing, we’ve implemented features that offer privacy and control in all of our products, including Firefox Focus.

The year's last release of Firefox bundles together goodies for all, including multi-tab management in the interface, new CSS features, devtools improvements, better privacy protections, add-ons updates, and more.

Google and Opera are pleased with Microsoft embracing Chromium for Edge while Mozilla is not happy and points to Firefox as the only independent choice.