New Firefox update provides improved privacy protection in Mozilla browser
With more employees working from home than ever before, the Internet continues to play a much greater role in our daily lives. That’s why Mozilla is bringing new multitasking and privacy protection features to Firefox.
To prevent users from being tracked across the web, the company has announced Total Cookie Protection for Firefox. This feature prevents cookies from tracking users around the Internet by creating a separate cookie jar for each website.
Total Cookie Protection is the latest tool in Mozilla’s suite of privacy protections called Enhanced Tracking Protection. Combining this new feature with Firefox’s recently announced super cookie protections, the browser now offers comprehensive protection against cookie tracking on desktops and mobile devices for smartphones running Android.
SVP of Firefox, Selena Deckelmann provided further insight into how Mozilla has worked to prevent cookies from tracking its users in a blog post, saying:
“In our ongoing pursuit of bringing the best privacy innovations, we work tirelessly to improve the way Firefox protects our users from tracking. trackers, based on the Unlink List. To provide even more comprehensive protection, Total Cookie Protection places all cookies from each website in a separate cookie jar so that cookies can no longer be used to track you around the Internet while you are site to site. “
Multiple Picture-in-Picture
Last year, Mozilla released a Picture-in-Picture feature for its browser, which received high praise from Firefox users and even surpassed the top of the company List of the best features of Firefox 2020However, some users wanted more than one picture-in-picture display.
For this reason, Mozilla has added multiple picture-in-picture displays to its desktop browsers for Mac, Linux and Windows with keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind.
This new feature could certainly help those who work with a lot of videos multitask, but it’s also launching ahead of one of the biggest sporting events of the year, March Madness.
To get started with Total Cookie Protection or multiple picture-in-picture displays, you can download the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla’s website.