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Firefox 96 is Available to Download, This is What’s New

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 06:01:56 AM Filed under
Moz/FF

Mozilla Firefox 96 is out.

The first major update to the browser this year comes with a modest miscellany of improvements, plus a few Linux-specifics changes users may be interested to hear about.

But we’ll start with something everyone: better security.

Firefox 96 ships with the Cookie Policy: Same-Site=lax setting enabled by default. This, Mozilla say, “provides a solid first line of defense against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks”. Nice.

Next, Mozilla says it made “significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.” This relates to the browser’s built-in Media Capture and Streams API which is use

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In Phoronix

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 06:02:45 AM.
  • Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas - Phoronix

    Firefox 96.0 is officially shipping today as the first update of 2022 for this open-source web browser.

    Firefox 96.0 has "significantly" reduced the amount of load placed on the browser's main thread and there is also "significant" improvements in noise suppression and auto-gain-control and improvements in echo cancellation. In addition to that performance work, there are also WebRTC improvements, an improved cookie policy to reduce the likelihood of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, video quality degradation fixes, and other fixes.

New Year, New Privacy Protection for Firefox Focus on Android

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 06:17:22 PM.
  • New Year, New Privacy Protection for Firefox Focus on Android

    Have you ever signed up for a contest to win a big screen TV or a vacation to an exotic location? Or have you joined a big retailer loyalty program so you can save money? If you answered yes to either of these questions you may be exchanging your name, home address, email address, phone number and sometimes even your birthdate to companies who are building your profile with the information you freely provide. Companies use those profiles to help them make ads that are targeted at convincing you to purchase, like resurfacing an item you were shopping for. When you go online, there are similar tactics that work behind the scenes to gather information about you and your browsing behavior, and track you when you go from site to site.

    Mozilla has been leading the industry in privacy protections by putting our users first. Last year, we introduced one of our strongest privacy protections to date, Total Cookie Protection, to combat cross-site tracking, and we’re bringing it to Firefox Focus on Android, our simple, privacy by default companion app. Firefox Focus on Android will be the first Firefox mobile browser to have Total Cookie Protection. This will help mitigate the cross-site tracking where companies collect information about you like the sites you visit every day or the products you are searching for.

Firefox 96 improves noise cancellation on calls

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 06:33:56 PM.
  • Firefox 96 improves noise cancellation on calls, bookmarks on Android, and more

    Firefox is one of the few web browsers left with a non-Chromium rendering engine engine, giving Mozilla the ability to try out new web features and low-level performance changes in a way that most other browsers can’t (without essentially becoming a fork, anyway). Firefox 95 rolled out last month with new security features and some macOS enhancements, and now Firefox 96 is officially available.

    Firefox 96 on desktop platforms (via TechDows) should be better than ever for video and audio calls, as Mozilla has “made significant improvements” to noise suppression, automatic gain control, and echo cancellation. Many communication platforms have their own noise cancellation technology, but if you happen to use a service that doesn’t, Firefox should at least help a little bit. Firefox also now uses the “Same-Site=lax” HTTP header by default when receiving data, which improves security.

Mozilla Firefox 96.0 Released! Significantly Reduced Main-thread

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 12th of January 2022 06:09:08 PM.
  • Mozilla Firefox 96.0 Released! Significantly Reduced Main-thread Load

    Mozilla Firefox 96.0 was released today. The new release focuses on performance and security improvements.

    Firefox 96.0 significantly reduced the main-thread load, improved noise suppression and automatic gain control for better overall experience.

    It now enforces the Cookie Policy: Same-Site=lax by default which helps defend against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

    The release also fixed some issues, including video quality degradation issues on certain sites, issue where WebRTC downgrades screen sharing resolution, and video intermittently drops SSRC. As well, there are various security fixes.

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