Firefox 66 improves the web
The latest version of Mozilla’s web browser brings some great new features to our favourite browsing platform.
Firefox, Mozilla’s open source web browser, has been on a bit of a winning streak recently, with a number of recent releases bringing new features to make browsing the web a more secure – and enjoyable – experience. Mozilla has just released Firefox 66, which after a brief delay due to an issue with using certain web apps such as Powerpoint
Online is now rolling out to users (you can read more on this at our sister website’s report: http://bit.ly/lxffirefox66delay).
It comes with a number of features that promise to make browsing websites less annoying, especially if you frequent sites that like to autoplay sounds and bug you to enable notifications. Websites will no longer give you a scare by blasting out audio – though you can add individual sites to an exceptions list. This feature will be rolled out gradually to users, and we’d wager that many people will be eagerly awaiting its arrival.
Firefox 66 also makes locating open websites easier for people who have loads of tabs open at once, with the tab overflow menu now allowing
you to search within all of your open tabs. If you’ve ever been annoyed by a website jumping about as images and ads load, the scroll anchoring feature will be a welcome addition, and on Windows and macos, Firefox now supports the open-source AV1 video compression standard.
A number of critical security vulnerabilities have also been touched. For more information about Firefox 66, check out the release announcement at www.mozilla.org/en-us/ firefox/66.0/releasenotes.