Firefox beefs up security and privacy, blocking third-party trackers, Facebook cookies and more - beresfordbrishemed

If you've never used the Firefox web browser in front, Mozilla has secure you a soft landing: New users testament not constitute tracked aside default.

On Tuesday, Mozilla secure that new users of the current Firefox 67.0.1 and subsequent versions will have Enhanced Tracking Protection horny by default, block all known third-party cookies inside Firefox. Enhanced Tracking Tribute wish function hand in hand with a new reading of Facebook Container, which prevents pages with embedded Facebook trackers from observance you A you move around the entanglement.

Patc original users will have Enhanced Trailing Protection upturned on by default, that doesn't mean existing users are stuck. You can attend the Firefox main menu and click Privacy & Security. Extend to Smug Blocking, then make a point the Custom button is enabled, also as the Cookies checkbox. From on that point, just make a point the Third-political party trackers option in the unload-down menu is enabled.

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Seclusion was besides the driving force behind Facebook Container, a technology Firefox introduced last year. Antecedently, the Container isolated your Facebook browsing into its ain tab—the Container—which was colored blue to differentiate IT from regular browser tabs. Facebook Container was organized to nominate it harder for Facebook to track your activity as you hopped between Facebook and other web browser tabs.

The updated Facebook Container goes a bit further, blocking the connecter to Facebook on sites that feature Facebook Like and Share buttons. You'll in reality see a purple "fence" badge following to those icons to alert you that information isn't being passed rear to Facebook.

Firefox Lockbox and Monitor improvements

Firefox also said that IT now offers a way to manage passwords on desktop PC browsers, complementing what it already offered for its mobile Android and iOS browsers, known as Lockbox. The rising solution, a desktop extension for Firefox, is now called Firefox Lockwise.

Finally, Firefox said it had updated Firefox Monitor, a solution that lets users track whether their email address has been caught up in a data breach. Similar in concept to HaveIBeenPwned and different like-minded services, the Firefox Monitor has now been migrated from an electronic mail open-eyed scheme to a central splashboard for easier inadvertence.