• Firefox 92 could be the most secure browser yet

    From TechnologyDaily@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Sep 9 16:45:03 2021
    Firefox 92 could be the most secure browser yet

    Date:
    Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:23:32 +0000

    Description:
    Latest Firefox release continues to enhance security of users worldwide.

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    Mozilla has released the latest version of its popular Firefox web browser with several important security and feature updates.

    Mozilla continues to chisel away and improve the open source browsers
    handling of non-secure HTTP connections by upgrading them to secure HTTPS connections.

    After introducing a HTTPS by default policy in Private browsing in Firefox 91 , the latest release adds automatic switching to HTTPS browsing mode by using the HTTPS RR browser as Alt-Svc headers. Check our collection of the best web browsers available today Heres our list of the best VPN services These are
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    The feature is touted as a means to auto-update HTTP connection to HTTPS, whenever possible. However, the company hasnt shared any details on how the arrangement would affect the end-user, especially when compared to the
    current arrangement.

    Mozilla is yet to reply to TechRadar Pro s email seeking an explanation about this much-touted feature. Other upgrades

    One of the other marquee features in Firefox 92 is the official support for the AVIF image format. Based on the royalty-free AV1 video codec, AVIF offers significant bandwidth savings compared to the other image formats prevailing on the web, without compromising on features.

    The release also improves certain existing features. For starters, the certificate error pages have been redesigned to give a better user
    experience. For macOS users, the bookmark toolbar menus will nicely follow Firefoxs visual styles.

    For Android users , the headline feature in Firefox 92 is support for the Web Authentication API, or WebAuthn, which will enable the use of bluetooth or
    USB security keys to log into websites.

    Firefox releases for iOS dont just use a different browser engine (WebKit instead of Gecko), but also follow a different version numbering. In this release cycle, iOS users move on to Firefox 37, which now offers the ability to manually add new accounts to the browsers inbuilt password manager.

    In terms of security, Firefox 37 for iOS touts improvements to the enhanced tracking protection (ETP) feature, which is more verbose about the security mechanisms of the visited websites. Heres our list of the best privacy tools for anonymous browsing



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