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I’ve installed Firefox 86 on my Ubuntu workstation using Snap to make sure I don’t accidentally mess with my working system configuration.
Jim Sterlter
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Although Firefox 86 is the default download from Mozilla, the Snap Store hasn’t caught on yet. I needed Snap Refresh Firefox – Channel = Latest / Subscriber 86 to get the build.
Jim Sterlter
Mozilla released Firefox 86 yesterday, and the browser is now available for download and installation for all major operating operating systems, including Android. Along with the usual rounds of bug fixes and hood under updates, the new build offers some high-profile features – multiple picture-in-picture video-watching ching support, and (optional) strict cookie separation, which is Mozilla’s branding Total Cookie Protection.
Take Firefox 86 for a spin
Firefox mo86 on Tuesday Mozilla.rg. Became the default download on – but as an Ubuntu 30.04 user, I don’t want to leave canonical-powered repositories just to test the new version. This is a scenario in which Excel does indeed provide you with a containerized version of the application, easily installed but guaranteed not to mess with your “real” operating operating system.
As it turned out, Firefox’s Snap Channel did not receive a message about the new default default build 86 – latest/default Instant is still on the 85 build. To get the new version, I need snap refresh firefox --channel=latest/candidate.
With the new version installed as an instant, the next step was actually running it – which can be a lot easier. Instant Ubuntu launcher generates a different Firefox icon, but I don’t know how to easily distinguish the icon for the system. firefox And a new snap-installed firefox. After a bit of hit-and-miss frustration, I finally went to the terminal and executed it directly by issuing a full padded command /snap/firefox/current/firefox.
Multi-picture-in-picture mode
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Mozilla launches PP in Firefox in1 Mode was introduced. When the browser is working on a video playing in the in-browser, a control appears that allows you to separate the video into a separate window.
Jim Sterlter
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DHAD PIP video windows are very minimal, with no borders, external controls or fluff to use valuable screen real estate.
Jim Sterlter
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Building on a separate PIP video window provides three window controls: a play / pause toggle, a retouch button that brings the video back to its original tab, and a simple X to close it immediately.
Jim Sterlter
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As long as you leave parental tabs of existing PPP windows alone, you can continue to detach additional videos from the additional tabs.
Jim Sterlter
In December 2019, Firefox introduced Picture-in-Picture mode – an additional overlay control over in-browser embedded videos that allows the user to separate the video from the browser. Once separated, there’s nothing window dressing in the video – no title bar, minutes / max / off, etc.
PIP mode allows users who tile their windows – automatically or manually – to watch the said video while using the screen minimal screen real estate.
Firefox 86 introduces the concept of multiple picture-in-picture instances simultaneously. Before creating Build 86, hitting the PIP control on the second video is to reconnect the first video to its parent tab and separate the second. Now, you can have as many floating, detected video windows as you like – possibly rotating something that reminds any monitor of a security DVR display.
The key to understanding about Multi-Pip is that the Parent tabs must remain open – if you navigate through the Parental tab of an existing PIP window, the PIP window also closes. Once I found out, I had no trouble playing video windows simultaneously with five opponents around my Firefox window.
Total cookie protection
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In short Total Cookie Protection – If Facebook (for example) sets cookies from within an iframe embedded in an open tab on fuzzyslippers.com, it will not be able to read the cookie from anywhere else.
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If you want Total Cookie Protection, you need to set your Advanced Tracking Protection profile to Strict.
Jim Sterlter
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Strict ETP defaults do not work by default, and Mozilla warns that some sites may fail to fully function with strict ETP and total cookie protection. We had no trouble with any of the many large sites.
Jim Sterlter
In December, we reported on the introduction of Firefox 85’s cache partitioning – a scheme that makes it more difficult for third parties to find out where you are and not on the Internet. Firefox 86 Ups again, with a plan called Mozilla “Total Cookie Protection”.
In short, Total Cookie Protection restricts the ability of third parties to monitor your movement around the web using embedded elements such as scripts or iframes. This prevents tracking of cookies from Facebook, Amazon and et al. From “Following you around the web”.
In theory, cookies were already strictly per site તેથી so Contoso.com could not set or read cookies associated with Facebook.com, and so on. But in practice, if Contoso.com voluntarily embeds active Facebook elements into its site, the user’s browser considers those elements to belong to Facebook. This means that Facebook can set a cookie’s value when you’re browsing Contoso.com, then re-read that value when you’re on Facebook (or when you’re on other, completely unrelated sites that embed Facebook content Is).
Total Cookie Protection misrepresents this by creating a separate “cookie jar” based on the identification of the URL actually present in the address bar. With this feature enabled, a Facebook script running on Contoso.com can still set and read a Facebook cookie – but that cookie only stays in the Contoso.com cookie jar. When the same user directly browses Facebook.com, later, the Facebook can not read, write, or detect the presence of the Facebook cookie in the Contoso.com cookie jar.
This is by no means a cure against tracking, for example, it does nothing to stop Facebook, Amazon and et scripts. Uploading data about your web travel Own Servers to profile you there. But that at least keeps them from using your own computer storage to do the useless work for them.
No, this Others TCP
If you want to enable total cookie protection (and we really want Mozilla to choose a name that doesn’t start with TCP), you must first set your Advanced Tracking Protection on a strict profile. To do so, click the shield icon to the left of the address bar (visible when browsing an actual website, simply does not appear on the new tab screen) and click Security settings. From there, you can change your ETP profile from standard to strict.
Total Cookie Protection has a few (apparently strictly-coded) exemptions for third-party login gin providers – for example, by logging in to YouTube with a personal Gmail account, GLBM visits to other tabs are instantly correct. Allowed to load. Need to log in again separately.
Mozilla has warned that a strictly enhanced tracking profile could completely break some sites – and we believe Mozilla – but in our own Kasori test, we haven’t had any problems. We had no trouble loading and unloading on Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and many other great sites.
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