Firefox 42 Adds Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators, More

Firefox 42 Adds Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators, More

The latest version of Mozilla’s flagship web browser is now available, adding tracking protection and tab audio indicators on the desktop. And if you use Firefox on Android, you can take advantage of other new features too.

Here’s what’s new in Firefox 42 for Windows.

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Tracking protection. This feature, which is implemented as part of Firefox’s Private Browsing functionality, gives you “control over the data that third parties receive from you online,” Mozilla explains. “No other browser’s Private Browsing mode protects you the way Firefox does—not Chrome, not Safari, not Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer.” It actively blocks content like ads, analytics trackers and social share buttons that may record your behavior without your knowledge across sites.

Tab audio indicators. Now, when another tab in the browser is annoying you with audio, you can find it and mute the audio right on the tab.

Control Center. This new feature provides site security and privacy controls right in the address bar.

Firefox Developer Edition improvements. The developer-focused Firefox version picks up new visual editing tools, including Animation Tools that will be familiar to animators.

Other improvements. Mozilla also improved Firefox’s handling of WebRTC and updated the Login Manager with password importing from Chrome and IE.

You can download Firefox for Windows from the Firefox web site.

And if you’re using Android, the latest update to Firefox on the mobile platform adds tracking protection, background external URL opening, restricted profile for tablets, scrollable tabs, voice search from the URL bar, and an improved mobile login manager. You can download Firefox for Android from the Google Play Store.

 

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  • gnnpatil

    14 March, 2019 - 2:29 am

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  • Hadi

    31 December, 2022 - 9:08 am

    Firefox 42, released October 13th, 2015, introduces a number of new features, including Tracking Protection, tab audio indicators, the ability to mute tabs, and more. Tracking Protection blocks content from third-party sites that track your online behavior. This is especially helpful for those concerned about privacy, as it prevents websites from collecting data about you. The new tab audio indicators let you know when a tab is playing audio, so you can quickly identify which tab is making sound. You can even mute tabs directly from the indicator. Firefox 42 also adds support for multi-process Electrolysis, the project that allowsFirefox to use more than one process to run web content. This can improve performance and stability, and has been rolled out to nightly builds of Firefox. Finally, the new Firefox 42 release also includes a number of bug fixes and other improvements, including better performance when using WebRTC and WebGL, improved performance on websites that use Service Workers, and a fix for crashes caused by WebGL. Overall, Firefox 42 is a solid release that brings a number of useful features and improvements to the browser.

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