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Earlier this week, version 86.0 of the Firefox web browser was released.<\/p>\nEarlier this week, version 86.0 of the Firefox web browser was released.<\/p>\n
I have a great affection for Firefox, as I started using it in the early 2000s before version 1.0 was released when the browser market was dominated by Microsoft’s unloved but ubiquitous Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n
Firefox is also bundled as the standard web browser in many Linux distributions including my long-term preferred distro, Debian.<\/p>\n
According to the release notes<\/a>, there have been several privacy improvements and other enhancements in the latest version.<\/p>\n As regards privacy, Firefox 86.0 has now introduces Total Cookie Protection<\/a> to Strict Mode. In Total Cookie Protection, every website gets its own \u201ccookie jar,\u201d preventing cookies from being used to track users from site to site<\/a>.<\/p>\n For those able to concentrate on several things at once, Firefox now supports<\/a> simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n Print functionality has also been improved, with a cleaner design and better integration with your computer’s printer settings.<\/p>\n There have also been several bug fixes.<\/p>\n