Firefox introduces feature to combat cross-site cookie tracking; multi-PiP tags along

Posted on by Prakhar Khanna

Mozilla has announced two new features for its Firefox browser on Mac, Windows and Linux. It is introducing multiple picture-in-picture (multi-PiP) and a way to combat cross-site cookie tracking once and for all. The later is being called Total Cookie Protection (technically known as State Partitioning or Dynamic First-Party Isolation).

Up until now, you were allowed to view one window in picture-in-picture (PiP) mode. Now, Mozilla is expanding Firefox’s capabilities. Have you ever wanted to view multiple videos at once in PiP? You will now be able to. The company is adding multiple picture-in-picture views. It will be available on Mac, Linux and Windows. It also includes keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. 

Mozilla has also announced Total Cookie Protection for Firefox. The company says it is a major new milestone in their work to protect your privacy. Total Cookie Protection will stop cookies from tracking you around the web by creating a separate cookie jar for every website. This will allow the browser to keep cookies separately for each website.

In 2019, Firefox introduced Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) which blocks cookies from known, identified trackers. Expanding on it, Total Cookie Protection confines all cookies from each website in a separate cookie jar so that cookies can no longer be used to track you across the web as you browse from site to site.

“In combining Total Cookie Protection with last month’s supercookie protections, Firefox is now armed with very strong, comprehensive protection against cookie tracking. This will be available in ETP Strict Mode in both the desktop and Android version,” says the company.

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Mozilla makes it easier to install extensions on the Firefox browser for Android

Posted on by Nadeem Sarwar

Mozilla has announced that installing extensions on its Firefox browser for Android will now be much easier. With v85.0 of the Firefox browser, users will be able to install extensions directly from the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) page. So far, if you have the Firefox browser installed on your Android phone, you have to navigate to the add-ons section in order to visit the extensions, a process Mozilla says is confusing. The next stable build of the Firefox browser on Android with the aforementioned feature will start rolling out on January 25. 

“Previously, extensions for mobile devices could only be installed from the Add-ons Manager, which caused some confusion for people accustomed to the desktop installation flow. We hope this update provides a smoother installation experience for mobile users,” the company says in a blog post. 

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At the time of writing this, Mozilla is yet to enable the installation buttons for recommended extensions on the AMO repository, but it will be updated later today. However, the number of recommended add-ons for the Firefox browser on Android is still quite low and barely crosses the figure of twenty add-ons at the moment. However, the ability to install extensions on a mobile browser is still worth a mention than not having the feature at all. “In the upcoming months, we’ll continue to work on optimizing add-on performance on mobile,” the company adds.

The last major update for the Firefox browser on Android introduced the ability to open tabs side by side in a grid view, which is actually much better than the list view we are used to on mobile browsers such as Chrome. Additionally, v84 of Mozilla’s Firefox browser also added the ability to delete downloaded files directly from the browser. What this means is you no longer have to wade into the depths of a file manager app to get rid of junk files eating up precious internal storage

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx takes portable computing to the “extreme”

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It's Qualcomm's most powerful chipset yet and it will be on select computers starting next year to go toe-to-toe with Intel-fueled machines.

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Mozilla cuts the rope on mobile Firefox OS support in May

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The struggle to keep alive an underdog operating system in the mobile space is ever-present. Jolla is under immense financial stress partly because of that struggle.  It’s one that’s preventing Microsoft from going anywhere. Some companies, like HP, dare not to give it the time of day.However, Mozilla has actually succumbed to ...

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Firefox OS lives on, as leak reveals internal product concepts

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How many mobile operating systems can the market sustain? Right now we’ve got two major players, a third with a lot of potential (and serious backing), a fourth that just can’t seem to die, and a fragmented assortment of hangers on, none yet to achieve real mainstream success. 2015’s been especially hard on those upstarts, and in recent weeks we haven’t just seen Sailfish OS hit hard times, but Firefox OS throw in the towel, with

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Mozilla sunsets Firefox OS smartphones, gives rise to Focus ad blocker

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Mozilla imaged an entirely new development medium for those who were interested in the Firefox OS 2.5, but weren’t willing to take the complete dive: by packaging an easy-to-install Android launcher and sending it right to you. Turns out it’s not going to be of much use to those devs anymore. In fact, the platform is now dead.At least on the smartphone side. Mozilla senior vice president of connected devices Ari ...

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Developer preview of Firefox OS 2.5 is an Android app

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It’s been a long time since Firefox OS has been relevant. Last time we wrote on it, it was on a fairly tacky and transparent gold-colored phone. While Firefox OS is based on Linux, the R&D team at Mozilla have been building bridges to make the operating system more accessible to existing devices rather than (the lack of) proprietary ones.The official version 2.5 download for Firefox OS ...

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Japan’s first Firefox OS phone may be best-looking yet

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Upstart smartphone platforms have their work cut out for them. The market has become increasingly a three-man race, with Android, iOS, and Windows Phone succeeding while past players like BlackBerry fade into the background. Getting a foot in the door there is a huge obstacle, and platforms like Sailfish, Ubuntu, and Firefox OS continue to struggle to do so. Among them, Firefox OS has had the problem of being largely targeted at users who needed quite basic phones, and much of the hardware that’s ...

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Mozilla takes aim at iOS browser market with plans for Firefox port

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Apple hasn’t always been the most welcoming platform when it comes to third-party software that – at least in Apple’s eyes – replicates the company’s own apps that ship with iOS. That’s delayed the arrival of things like alternate keyboards, though the situation is getting better over time. Even where the company allows such apps, this idea that you just can’t compete (successfully) with Apple has limited the availability of many alternatives – and that’s still the case ...

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Firefox OS 2.0 teased in new preview images

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Back in February during the Mobile World Congress, Mozilla was busy talking about what’s next for its Firefox OS, an alternative to mainstream smartphone platforms we saw debut on its first hardware last year. The company talked about changes to how apps would launch, re-worked gesture inputs, and basically an overhaul to the platform’s interface as we knew it. It’s still a while before we’ll see any new phones running this Firefox OS 2.0, but this week we catch a bit of an early preview, with the publication of a ...

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Latest Firefox beta lets web apps behave more like native Android apps

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Delivering apps as web services, rather than natively-packaged code, can have a lot of appeal to developers: it can streamline distribution (including that of updates), allow you to reach users across platform boundaries, and speed development time. That’s not to say that web apps aren’t without their own set of problems, and one such issue has concerned just how we interact with these apps on our smartphones: sure, we can pin a bookmark to a web app on our home screen, but then what about the app drawer? And how would the web app look when we’re trying to switch between ...

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Sony continues with the Firefox OS love, creates widget framework

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Firefox OS didn’t really make any big waves when it arrived last year, but despite an underwhelming start, the platform has some nice momentum to it, and with some crazy low-cost handsets on the way in 2014, its chances are looking up. Quite a few OEMs have shown interest in Firefox OS to one extent or the other, a list that includes Sony. While Sony hasn’t released any stand-alone Firefox OS device, last winter we saw the company release an experimental ROM for its ...

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Firefox OS at MWC 2014 should sound exciting

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

Firefox OS has been in and out of the headlines over the past couple of years; at the 2013 MWC we went hands-on with the Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open, while there were definitely other phones powered by the browser-based operating system, like the Alcatel One Touch Fire. However, there was little to get excited about then, and the same can be said about the recent past. According to Cnet, Firefox is planning a presence at this year’s upcoming MWC 2014. Not only that, but the report mentions an ...

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