Mozilla has long taken privacy as a particularly prominent and important feature of its products, with Firefox at the helm. And the navigator, once the king of kings, continues to update himself by putting it above everything else.
“Last year, we saw technology companies talk about a great game about privacy, as they are realizing that, after several global scandals, people feel increasingly vulnerable, it is unfortunate that this change has It had to happen for technology companies to notice, in Firefox, we’re doing more than that, we believe that to truly protect people, we need to set a new standard that puts people’s privacy first. “
And what they are doing more, according to Dave Camp, senior vice president of Firefox, can be summarized in today’s releases, perfectly explained by the company. Thanks to them, Firefox users will improve their fight against advertiser traces, against the Facebook trail of the web activity, they will improve in the warnings about Firefox Monitor data violations and also in the custody of the passwords with the emancipation to the Lockbox desktop, which will now be known as Lockwise.
Tesla Pickup: this is all we know about Elon Musk’s next electric car
Firefox against crawling
Mozilla announced today that improved tracking protection will mean that users downloading and installing Firefox for the first time will have automatic protection enabled against tracking, since this feature will be part of the standard configuration and default browser, blocking in addition the cookies of third – party tracking.
For current users of Firefox, from Mozilla ensure that improved tracking protection will be implemented by default in the coming months without having to change anything, they explain.
At WWDC 2019, Apple introduces iPadOS, iOS 13 and new Mac Pro
The company responsible for Firefox has also launched today an update of Facebook Container, the extension that prevents the tracking that Facebook can carry out of the activity in the network of users. The news is based on additional protection that prevents the monitoring of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network in sites that have embedded Facbeook features, such as the Share or Likebuttons.
BitTorrent clients: the 17 best applications to download torrents
Firefox Lockwise, the new Mozilla desktop password manager
If almost a year ago Firefox Lockbox for iOS was announced and this March Firefox Lockbox for Android was presented as an optimized version for iPad with the aim of expanding this ecosystem, now we know that the Mozilla password manager is emancipated to install itself on the desktop as a complement to the browser and with the name of Firefox Lockwise.
Physicists caught and reversed the quantum leap
The objective of Firefox Lockwise, expose its responsible, is to give “more control over the stored passwords with shared access from any device”. Offer an additional access door through which it is easy to store, edit and access our different keys, while providing a seamless integrated experience when moving from the mobile device to the desktop.
Therefore, Firefox Lockwise is now available for both iOS and Android and for the desktop through the Firefox add-on.
News for Firefox Monitor
When it comes to protecting the privacy of users, Mozilla has not missed the opportunity to improve Firefox Monitor, the free service that notifies users when their email address is part of a data breach. As revealed, more than 635,000 people already use it to receive alerts.
2019 will be tough for smartphone manufacturers, especially Apple
The Firefox Monitor control panel will allow you to see at a glance, in a quick summary, the status of the different email accounts present in the system. For example, we can see how many breaches may have exposed data related to those addresses and how many of those security failures passwords may have been leaked.
Windows Hacks: The 44 best tricks of Windows 10