Firefox users will finally get rid of annoying auto-playing audio with the introduction of a new feature designed to block audible multimedia content from auto-playing. The browser will “only allow a site to play audio or video aloud via the HTMLMediaElement API once a web page has had user interaction to initiate the audio, such as […]
Firefox is known for its resolve to offer a Google Chrome alternative that offers reliable privacy solutions as compared to the data-hungry browser. Time and again, Mozilla has advertised its browser as one of the security-focused browsers. However, a major privacy feature is missing from Firefox which was included in Google Chrome, Edge and Opera […]
Back in 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop updating and distributing flash support by the end of 2020. Now, many popular browsers are gradually incorporating the change. One of them is Mozilla Firefox, which will be disabling support for the Adobe Flash plugin by default, starting in Firefox 69. In a bug listing, Jim Mathies, […]
Every once in a while, Microsoft puts its proprietary browser – Internet Edge to some battery efficiency test and boasts the results on Youtube and its own blog like it did last year. However, this time was different. Although Edge did extremely well when tied against Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, the company was surprisingly quiet about […]
If you are someone who opens multiple tabs while working and then scrolls through different open tabs for searching a particular tab, then Mozilla has made things easier for you. Mozilla will add a new feature in Firefox 66 (Via: BleepingComputer) that will allow you to find a particular tab from multiple open tabs by simply searching the […]
Mozilla Firefox now introduces a feature that would warn people when they visit breached websites… It was a couple of months ago that Mozilla came up with Firefox Monitor, a service that allowed users to check if their email addresses have been exposed to any kind of data breaches. Now, Mozilla comes up with another […]
Mozilla has announced a new security feature in its Firefox Quantum web browser to alert users when they visit a website that was recently reported in a data breach. So if you happen to stumble upon a website that was breached in the past 12 months, Firefox will send you a handy little notification. But Mozilla knows […]
Trickbot Malware reemerging with new ticks and future to steal various sensitive information such as passwords, History, cookies from application & Browsers. New Trickbot arriving with new password grabber module that targets the Applications & browsers including Microsoft Outlook, Filezilla, WinSCP, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Cybercriminals continually adding new sophisticated […]
BFuzz is an input based fuzzer tool which take .html as an input, open’s up your browser with a new instance and pass multiple testcases generated by domato which is present in recurve folder of BFuzz, more over BFuzz is an automation which performs same task repeatedly. Run BFuzz [email protected]:~/BFuzz$ ./generate.sh [email protected]:~/BFuzz$ python BFuzz.py Enter […]
All major web browsers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, altogether today announced to soon remove support for TLS 1.0 (20-year-old) and TLS 1.1 (12-year-old) communication encryption protocols. Developed initially as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an updated cryptographic protocol used to establish a […]
Mozilla has announced that it will be launching an experimental feature in the new version of Firefox that will offer ProtonVPN subscriptions. The feature, however, will be accessible by users only after they subscribe for a monthly package. It is basically, a subscription-based VPN (virtual private network) that will cost $10 per month. The new […]
It seems like Mozilla is following the footsteps of Opera. A German website reports that Mozilla will start testing commercial VPN for a few users in the USA, starting from today. Unlike Opera that offers its own VPN service, Mozilla is partnering with Swiss VPN provider ProtonVPN to use their networking resources for a more, advanced level of […]
Mozilla Firefox Released security updates that cover 2 critical vulnerabilities in Firefox 62.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.2.2. One of the remote code execution vulnerability allows a remote attacker to get access to the system and both vulnerabilities are categorized under a critical impact. Mozilla released Firefox 62.0.3 along with these 2 security patches and users can download the new version […]
Mozilla, for many decades is working hard in order to regularly deliver to us a security-conscious browser we all know and love. However, there are times that Mozilla offers snippets of freebies, which highlights the non-profit company’s goal of helping secure the Internet world. Mozilla has released Firefox Monitor, which everyone can try by visiting […]
Firefox has joined hands with Have I Been Pwned for this project. Mozilla introduced a new service earlier this year called Firefox Monitor, and now the company is adding a new feature to this service. The newly added feature will take scrutiny to a whole new level by allowing users to sign up for getting […]
Security researcher Sabri Haddouche has found a bug in the Firefox web browser that can crash the browser and also the entire operating system running underneath. As reported by ZDNet, this Firefox bug can force the browser to crash on all the three popular desktop platforms — Mac, Linux, and Windows. On a Windows machine, this bug […]
Apple has been trying hard to improve the security mechanisms of its hardware and software products. The addition of new privacy features in Safari browser is yet another attempt to toughen security measures for preventing breaches and tracking by websites like Facebook. It is a well-known fact that companies use cookies to keep track of […]
In all the future versions of the Firefox web browser, cryptojacking malware will be blocked. Mozilla, the company behind Firefox browser, announced on August 30 that it is launching an anti-tracking initiative, which will be implemented broadly over the next few months. Firefox has cited the study from Ghostery, a browser extension that about 55.4% […]
There’s no denying the fact that data collection on the web is one of the fundamental ways how our Internet actually works. But then comes the practice of unchecked data collection, which brings along tons of negative impacts like performance impact and data breaches. It seems that Mozilla is planning to block all kinds of […]
The ban hammer is working tirelessly in Mozilla Land, as the non-profit Developer has recently deleted twenty-three Firefox add-ons from their https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ site that Mozilla detected for harvesting data from their users. Rob Wu, the Browser Engineer and Add-on Reviewer for Mozilla said: “The mentioned add-on has been taken down, together with others after I […]
It seems that efforts being made by Google and Mozilla to safeguard their Chrome and Firefox extension store aren’t turning out to be much effective. Just a few months ago, we witnessed a frenzy of extensions being caught mining cryptocurrency using your CPUs’ power without consent. A recent report by AdGuard Research has uncovered a […]