Firefox 57 lists third-party accessibility tools that may spy on users
Mozilla plans to list all third-party accessibility tools that integrate with the Firefox web browser on about:support in Firefox 57.
Firefox - Latest Posts
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Firefox 57: Decentraleyes add-on is compatible now
Decentraleyes is a useful browser add-on for Firefox and Google Chrome -- and some other browsers based on the code of those two browsers -- that replaces popul
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New Tab Override WebExtension released
New Tab Override is a popular add-on for the Firefox web browser that you may install to customize the new tab page of the web browser.
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Mozilla plans to collect anonymous Firefox browsing data
Mozilla plans to collect browsing data from Firefox users in a "privacy preserving way" to help Firefox product teams improve the browser based on the data.
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Firefox 55: new preferences and Ghacks user.js changes
This guide offers information on changes made to the Firefox 55 preferences, as well as new, deprecated, or removed Ghacks user.
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Selenium IDE Firefox add-on end of life
The original, legacy Selenium IDE Firefox add-on was discontinued in August 2017 with the release of Firefox version 55.
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Sort Bookmarks add-on for Firefox
Sort Bookmarks is a new Firefox add-on that you may use to sort all bookmarks of the browser using the sort options the add-on provides.
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All-in-One Sidebar Developer announces death of Firefox add-on
The developer of the popular All-in-One Sidebar extension for the Firefox web browser announced the end of life of the Firefox add-on today.
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Find out which sites are slowing Firefox down
If you open multiple websites in the Firefox web browser -- and most Firefox users probably do -- you may run into situations where Firefox slows down at one po
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How to enable legacy extensions in Firefox 57
If you are using Firefox Nightly right now, you may have noticed that the latest update of the web browser disabled all legacy add-ons.
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How to enable or disable Firefox's new Screenshot tool
If your Firefox browser updated to version 55.
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Abandoned Firefox add-ons that break can be fixed but not uploaded to AMO
Firefox 55 and the coming Firefox 56 and 57 releases mark an important point in the history of the browser.
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Firefox: your options to run legacy add-ons
The following guide lists all options that you have to continue running so-called legacy add-ons after the release of Firefox 57 in November 2017.
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Firefox 55.0: find out what is new
Mozilla Firefox 55.
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Update on NoScript's WebExtensions migration
The author of the Firefox security add-on NoScript, Giorgio Maone, answered questions about the WebExtensions migration of the NoScript add-on recently.
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Mozilla plans to add opt-out profile clean-up option to Firefox installer
Mozilla plans to add a new opt-out profile clean-up option to the Firefox installation process that will clean up the user profile.
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You cannot downgrade Firefox 55 profiles
If you have upgraded a version of Firefox to version 55 or newer, you won't be able to downgrade that version of the browser later on to an older version.
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Mozilla makes Tab Hiding API a priority
Mozilla plans to switch the legacy add-ons system of the Firefox browser off in the Firefox 57 release which will be out in November.
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Firefox tabs Pause toggle for HTML5 media
Play/Pause is a useful browser extension for the Firefox web browser that adds a pause option to Firefox tabs that have HTML5 media playing in them.
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Control Firefox System Add-ons with the Ghacks user.js file
Some time ago part of development for Firefox shifted from integrating new features and experiments in the core browser directly to using system add-ons for tha
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Firefox Voice Fill, Notes and Send Experiments
Mozilla plans to launch the three new Test Pilot experiments Voice Fill, Notes and Send for the Firefox web browser soon.
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Firefox blocks all GitHub release downloads as deceptive
If you are using the Mozilla Firefox web browser right now to download releases hosted on the project hosting website Github, you will notice that you cannot do
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Disable the preloading of Firefox autocomplete URLs
Mozilla plans to launch a new feature in Firefox soon which will preload autocomplete URLs in the Firefox browser when users type in the address bar.
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Firefox's unloaded tab handling got a whole lot better
Starting with Firefox 55, scheduled for an August 8th, 2017 release, unloaded tab handling in the Firefox web browser got a whole lot better.
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Firefox 56: automatic 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade
Mozilla started to upgrade Firefox 32-bit installations on Windows to the 64-bit version of the web browser when it released Firefox 56 in late 2017 to the publ
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Firefox's new WebExtensions Permissions update system
The move from legacy add-ons to WebExtensions introduces a permissions system that is similar to the one used by Google Chrome extensions.
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Firefox Focus 1.1 for Android released
Mozilla has just released Firefox Focus 1.
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uBlock Origin WebExtension lands on Firefox AMO
The WebExtension version of the popular content blocker uBlock Origin has landed on Mozilla's official Add-ons website for the Firefox web browser.
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Canvas Defender: canvas fingerprinting protection
Canvas Defender is a free add-on for Firefox and Chrome that manipulates the canvas fingerprint to protect against canvas fingerprinting.
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Mozilla is held to a higher standard
If you follow tech news or my site, you have probably stumbled upon the Firefox uses Google Analytics controversy by now.
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Privacy blunder? Firefox's Get Add-ons page uses Google Analytics
The Firefox web browser ships with an add-on management interface that users may load directly by typing about:addons in the browser's address bar, or by using
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Out of Process Web Extensions in Firefox Nightly
Firefox Nightly users on Windows may configure the web browser to move Web Extensions to their own process in the most recent builds.
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Firefox Add-ons WebExtensions State July 2017
Back in March 2017 and April 2017 we published two articles about Firefox add-ons and the progress that was made towards WebExtensions compatibility.
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Access Firefox about:config preferences directly
If you want to access Firefox about:config preferences directly, you can do so to speed up the editing of preferences, or bookmark them.
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How to disable animations in Firefox Photon
Mozilla continues its work on Photon, a visual refresh of the Firefox web browser that will be released later this year (most expect it to launch in Firefox 57
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Import lists of URLs in Firefox
URLs List is a free browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that you may use to import plain text lists of URLs in the browser, and to export them.
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Mozilla should hide legacy add-ons on Firefox AMO
The Firefox add-ons repository, short AMO (Addons Mozilla Org), hosts thousands of add-ons for the Firefox web browser.
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Firefox Nightly with improved Moz CSS Grid Inspector
Firefox Nightly is the unstable, daily development build of the Firefox browser, designed for developers, testers, and enthusiasts to test experimental features
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Mozilla Code Repository fork Unified XUL Platform
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Remove "Reconnect to Sync" from Firefox menu
Firefox Sync is Mozilla's official data synchronization service for the Firefox web browser.
