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Firefox’s new IM, privacy features are worth a look

After all, it now comes with its very own instant messenger, of all things, not to mention something approaching a full-featured IDE for Web developers. Ordinarily, I don’t encourage people to use beta products, but my experience with Firefox 42 has been smooth so far.

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The Android version has quite a number of new features too.

While not all add-ons interact with both the browser’s core code and the page’s content, some of them do, and that’s why it is important to know which extensions will break when updating to Firefox 43 this December. And because some websites won’t load if you disable tracking, Mozilla added a button to the toolbar that lets you turn off the no-tracking feature for individual sites.

The voice and video conversations using the Firefox Hello feature have a decent quality and work quite effortlessly. The competitions was more in the market, due to this the Firefox is updating the features in order to overcome the competition. The update also gives users the ability to personalize their Firefox account profiles by adding a photo so contacts can see who they’re communicating with.

This week, Mozilla announced the latest version of its Firefox browser – Firefox 41 – with Firefox Hello Beta. While not necessarily a problem for relatively high-end systems, plenty of midrange computers get grumpy if a process sucks down that much RAM – and applications that use that much memory also have a tendency to bog down in general.

The Firefox browser has just received a new stable update and this time it’s not a huge update, although there are some outstanding changes that should make this interesting enough for users.

Additionally, version 41 brings updates to the Firefox accounts feature, which allows users to synchronize their passwords, bookmarks, history and open tabs across multiple desktop and mobile devices.

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As for Android, Firefox 41 lets you quickly search the Web with different providers at once from the search panel and swipe to close tabs on your tablet.

Firefox update brings built-in instant messenger