Mozilla officially released Firefox 70.0, while Firefox 70, Firefox Beta and Dev upgrade to version 71, Firefox Nighly upgrade to version 72. Marks the end of Firefox 60.x ESR branch, Firefox ESR versions can upgrade to Firefox ESR 68.2. The main highlights of the new version of the Welcome screen, extended dark mode and improve performance.
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Firefox 70.0 version reads as follows:
Enhanced Tracking Protection
In Mozilla Firefox 70.0 again improved built-in tracking protection feature Firefox browser. The organization adds social media tracker blocking assembly In the standard setting, making it the default settings for the new version of Firefox.
Firefox Lockwise improvements
Mozilla Firefox Lockwise is recently launched a password management program. It is part of the Firefox Web browser, can be accessed through the browser address bar about at any time: logins open. Lockwise display alerts about potentially vulnerable passwords exposed in data breaches, if you do not want to use, the user can disable this feature through the "Options> Privacy and Security" under the "login and password."
Lockwise desktop version supports both synchronous and create, update, and delete login and password.
The new version supports Firefox Monitor, if the user's password problems, it can notify the user so that the user can change the password fast.
Firefox Account icons and menus
Mozilla updated Firefox Account icon on the Firefox toolbar. Click to open the account options, for example, log on to Firefox account, enable synchronization, access login and password, or open Firefox Monitor and Firefox Send .. If you want the icon, and the user can select from the context menu by right-clicking on the icon "Remove from Toolbar" to remove the icon.
Other changes:
- If the tracking policy is enabled, the default reference to third-party tracking resources policy is set to strict-origin-when-cross-origin
- FTP download resources
- Firefox core engine components have also been improved, including faster Javascript Baseline Interpreter, to improve the overall performance of the Web browser
- For Windows is more widely introduced WebRender graphics rendering engine as well as improvements to macOS synthesizer
- For MacOSX users, improved Compositor
- When using the site location, Firefox address bar will display a location icon
- Firefox page using the system theme (dark or light automatic switching)
- MacOSX users on the device can now import passwords from Chrome
Reference: Ghacks