Release of official 'Firefox 65' enhanced privacy related functions such as tracking measures


The official version of the web browser " Firefox 65 " has been released. While Microsoft's executives are saying "Personally, Mozilla should also adopt Chromium " in a situation where browser diversity is losing, such as Microsoft stopping its own engine and starting to develop Chromium based browsers , Firefox Mozilla to develop anti-tracking policy that "Tracking that the user can not control should be blocked" against it. In Firefox 65, countermeasures to such tracking are greatly strengthened.

Firefox 65.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/
Today's Firefox Gives Users More Control over their Privacy - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/29/todays-firefox-gives-users-more-control-over-their-privacy/

When using Firefox 65 to access the website and clicking the "i" mark at the left end of the URL bar, the "content blocking" column will be displayed.



Looking at "tracker", you can see who is being tracked. Tracking is allowed by default, but if you want to change the setting, click "Manage content blocking" below.



The setting is "standard", "strict", "custom" three stages, standard will refuse some tracking in the private window. "Strict" setting will reject tracking from all trackers in all windows, but some websites may not work.



In "Custom" you can select from two types of lists of "Standard" and "Strict" trackers to block, you can also set cookie blocks.



Also, it will be displayed by tracker in "Task Manager" which can measure memory consumption and power consumption for each tab.



◆ Other changes
Handoff is now supported in macOS, and you can open pages browsed on iPhone with Firefox in macOS.

WebP format with higher compression ratio than JPEG and PNG is supported, and images of the same quality can be viewed with less bandwidth.

If you edited the CSS in the inspector, there will be a record of how you changed on the "Changes" tab.

in Software, Posted by log1d_ts