Mozilla Firefox Adding a New Social Tracking Protection Feature (
Bleeping Computer)
Mozilla keeps improving its tracking protection, which debuted with Firefox 35. Firefox 67 added protection against
fingerprinting and
cryptominers (not really tracking, but part of
Enhanced Tracking Protection). Firefox 67.0.1 enabled Enhanced Tracking Protection by default in all (not only private) windows (new installations only).
And now, it seems “social” tracking is the next target. Actually, though, Mozilla has been fighting Facebook specifically for more than a year, with its
Facebook Container extension. It was
updated to version 2.0 a month ago.
Overall, I am very pleased to see how Firefox has evolved in recent years, from a browser which looked rather obsolete compared to Chrome. Electrolysis has made Firefox more secure, stable, and also faster. WebExtensions has brought a modern architecture for extensions. Quantum has brought speed improvements from the experimental browser engine Servo. And Enhanced Tracking Protection has brought better privacy (and
speed). And none of that is done yet. (
The Road goes ever on and on…) WebRender (Quantum Render) is the most recent step in the Quantum leap. Fission is a new feature of the sandbox, available in Firefox 69.
Firefox 69 Nightly: Fission can now be enabled (for testing) (
gHacks Technology News)