Mozilla’s Tracking Protection feature has gone mainstream with the release of Firefox 42, but may break a few sites as a result. The new feature gives users more control over the data that third parties receive from the browser. All major browsers, already [have] a “private browsing” mode, for those who want to keep the program from recording their…habits.
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If claims from Mozilla are to be believed, its latest bowser has a definite edge over competition as far as privacy is concerned.
“Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox for Windows, Mac, Android and Linux actively blocks content like ads, analytics trackers and social share buttons that may record your behavior without your knowledge across sites”, Nguyen wrote. Google’s Chrome does it and Mozilla’s Firefox does it. The private browsing mode will get rid of your history and cookies, but it won’t prevent cross-site trackers from getting a whiff of what you are surfing online. With other words, the Tracking Protection feature that Firefox comes with will make you feel more protected. The Inspector now defaults to displaying CSS colors “as authored”, an eyedropper tool lets you pick colors right from the page, and shift-clicking on a color swatch cycles between authored styles and equivalent hex, rgb, and hsl values. This allowed the tracking websites to see where you are from, what you’ve been searching for and more.
Developer: Asynchronous call stacks now allow web developers to follow the code flow through setTimeout, DOM event handlers, and Promise handlers.
Also included in Firefox 42 are security patches.
Mozilla says Tracking Protection is created to block web elements that send information to third parties.
Tech Crunch reports that this new release of Mozilla’s browser includes an icon that shows when one of the browser tabs is playing sound.
There have even been parental control tweaks to the Android version of the browser, making it easier for parents to control what their kids can and cannot see on the Internet.
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