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What Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection Means for Digital Marketers

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What is Firefox Enhanced Tracking Prevention, or ETP? The latest update from Firefox will block Third-Party Cookies by default Mozilla announced on June 4th that they’ll be rolling out a new set of anti-tracking measures on their Firefox browser version 67.0.1 over the coming months. This new update will automatically block third-party trackers by default, […]

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Former Mozilla GM: Google sabotaged Firefox to boost Chrome

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Mozilla’s former general manager has added to accusations that Google deliberately sabotaged competing browsers to boost Chrome’s popularity. Jonathan Nightingale gave his account in a series of tweets over the weekend. Despite being the main source of Mozilla’s income through a revenue share deal on search, he accuses Google of using dirty tactics to harm

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After Chrome, Firefox will also support off-screen image lazy loading

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Image: Mozilla Mozilla engineers plan to add support for “lazy loading,” a mechanism to defer the loading of images if they are not visible on the user’s screen when a website is first loaded. Work on adding this feature in Firefox started last month. Google has already been testing a lazy loading mechanism in Chrome

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Mozilla Launches Firefox Monitor for Watching Accounts After a Security Breach

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Mozilla recently debuted a new service called Firefox Monitor that you can use to check whether your personal information has been compromised by any of the numerous data breaches that occur every year. Data breaches strike fear into businesses of every size due to their devastating effects. According to a 2017 Kaspersky Lab report, the

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Popular Google, FireFox Extension Is Secretly Tracking User Activity

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A popular browser extension that helps personalize how a website looks has been found to be tracking user activity. The revelation has pushed Google and Mozilla to remove the Stylish browser extension from their app stores. However, the extension’s official website still remains active. Software engineer Robert Heaton claimed in a blog post that the

Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Leaked Facebook User Data Caused by Browser Vulnerability

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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox might have inadvertently leaked the Facebook usernames, profile pictures and even the likes of their users because of a side-channel vulnerability. A side-channel vulnerability was discovered in a CSS3 feature dubbed the “mix-blend-mode.” This allowed a hacker to discover the identity of a Facebook account holder using Chrome or Firefox by

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Firefox Moves Closer to Password-Free Browsers

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On Wednesday, Mozilla released its Firefox 60 browser, moving a step closer to password-free login for several websites. Equipped with WebAuthn, this new standard in authentication technology does away with several passwords to reduce phishing attacks. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and FIDO Alliance jointly developed WebAuthn, which has been years in the making.

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Mozilla Launches Firefox Quantum for Enterprise, IT Professionals Can Now Try Beta Version

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Firefox Quantum for Enterprise has now entered the Beta stage. This is the final step before Mozilla can officially release what is being touted as the latest and best version of the popular open-source browser, but with a few improvements specifically for business users. This beta version of Mozilla’s browser is expected to meet the

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Yahoo parent sues Mozilla for replacing it with Google as Firefox default search

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Roughly three years ago, Yahoo and Mozilla announced that Yahoo would be the default search engine on Firefox in the US. That relationship ended early when Mozilla released the much-improved Firefox Quantum browser last month, with Google as the default search provider. Now, Yahoo’s parent company, Oath (Verizon), is suing Mozilla for breach of contract. Oath says that Mozilla “terminated a

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Mozilla Launches Firefox Quantum, Poses Real Threat to Google Chrome

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Mozilla has been quietly sitting on the sidelines for a while now, content to slowly work on improving Firefox. But the release of the Firefox Quantum shows that the company is now ready to join the big league once again and take on Google’s Chrome. Mozilla unveiled the new and improved version 57 of Firefox

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