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 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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Believe it or not, Firefox finally reaches iOS

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Apple is never the company to actually promote the use of third-party browsers on iOS, up to the point where it took years to allow them to even land on the App Store. Since then we’ve seen Chrome and others find a spot, even though with certain minor limitations. The only one missing from joining iOS was Firefox, but that actually came to an end today.Mozila has just announced that Firefox is now available for iOS. It’s been available on Android for years, but given Apple’s standards actually prevented Mozila from buidling a variant that’s available for ...

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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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LG’s Firefox Fx0 transparent phone hands-on (Video)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Firefox OS has been around for some time now, but it’s lacked really stand-out hardware. A big part of that is how the platform is positioned, and with a focus on developing markets and budget-priced handsets, it’s been hard for any phones to really shine. But then late last month we saw the launch of a Firefox phone that couldn’t help itself but to be eye-catching: the LG-made Fx0 for Japan.Now, Japan is a long way to go to check out a smartphone – even one with as snazzy a design as the Fx0. But luckily for us, this ...

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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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Why doesn’t every browser do word wrapping?

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Mobile devices used to be primarily portable email boxes with integrated calendar and contacts. In the early days, some of them may have included web browsers, but they were very primitive. Back then the Web was very complex, and designed for screens with resolutions of 800 by 600 and higher. To accommodate phones and PDAs a “new” web was invented, one that used a completely different protocol to address the concerns of much smaller screens, slower processors, and mobile data plans. None of which were anywhere close to what we have today. WAP & WML Continue reading »

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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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Android Firefox exploit automatically downloads, opens files on your phone

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It’s far from the most popular browser out there, but tens of millions of users have still downloaded Mozilla’s Firefox for Android. All those people might want to be thinking twice about the sites they visit tonight, upon news arriving of a remote exploit for the browser going up for sale on the black market. When Firefox for Android attempts to connect to a compromised server, this exploit can make the browser download and open a file without any interaction ...

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Facebook Home and HTC First Announced, Curved iPhone 5s, Nokia Catwalk & More – Pocketnow Daily

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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how Google is ditching Webkit for their own Blink in the Chrome browser, and even Samsung is doing something similar by partnering with Mozilla. Then we talk Samsung again as their new US retail experience begins this month on Best Buy. We later talk some Nokia and the possibility of the Catwalk being launched on May 15th. Later we find some leaked images of a possible iPhone prototype with a curved display and curved back. We end today’s show talking about the Facebook Home Android Launcher, and also about the new HTC First which ...

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Samsung And Mozilla Team-Up For Yet Another Browser Engine

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If you didn’t think the browser wars had begun in mobile, think again. We were just reporting that Google is moving away from Apple’s WebKit in future versions of Google Chrome, and as it turns out, they’re not alone. This time though, it’s Samsung, and apparently what they want to do is move away from Google. We’ve always said that Samsung only uses Android to power TouchWiz on Android smartphones, as it’s clear that the company does away with ...

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