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Firefox 65 Arrives With Content Blocking Controls, and Support for WebP and AV1 (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

Firefox 65, the latest version of Mozilla's web browser, is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. The release brings simplified Content Blocking controls for Enhanced Tracking Protection, support for WebP image support with the Windows client getting an additional feature: support for AV1 format. From a report: Across all platforms, Firefox can now handle Google's WebP image format. WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression and promises the same image quality as existing formats at smaller file sizes. Firefox 65 for desktop brings redesigned controls for the Content Blocking section to let users choose their desired level of privacy protection. You can access it by either clicking on the small "i" icon in the address bar and clicking on the gear on the right side under Content Blocking or by going to Preferences, Privacy & Security, and then Content Blocking.

Next, Firefox now supports AV1, the royalty-free video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. AV1 improves compression efficiency by more than 30 percent over the codec VP9, which it is meant to succeed. Lastly, Firefox's new Task Manager page (just navigate to about:performance or find it under "Other" in the main menu) is complete. Introduced in Firefox 64, Task Manager now reports memory usage for tabs and add-ons.

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  1. NoScript, uMatrix, uBlock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In that order. NoScript handles a variety of things that uMatrix doesn't, but uMatrix does a much better job showing you an overview of the currently demanded subsites and permissions to determine what you should whitelist to get a page working right. Between the three of them you ALMOST have a private and secure browser. Add in HTTPS Anywhere, Greasemonkey and some others and you can get almost any minor features you need without being held at ransom by the shitty javascript on most websites, or accidentally whitelisting more than you need to view the content you want.

  2. Re:Yes, it misses the point of Firefox. by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    (A few good presets for add-on collections, chosen at installation, would have fixed that, but add-on collections did not even exist back then.)

    Or they could have just packaged the addons with the browser install... bundling instead of bungling.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  3. Last time I got frustrated with Firefox by oldgraybeard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I went back and checked out Palemoon. But it seemed Palemoon rejected NoScript so I rejected using Palemoon.

    And I hate Chrome, it can not even scroll/re fresh the screen properly and the ads, ads, ads and no NoScript. The whole experience just sucks. The only time I use it is to moderate Slashdot since Firefox does not work no matter what I do.

    Just my 2 cents ;)

  4. The last free browser by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Once Google starts stopping adblocking in Chromium, Firefox will be the last browser to allow the blocking of advertising and related malware. It is only a matter of time until Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc closes the adblock loophole.

  5. Re:Yes, it misses the point of Firefox. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    NoScript, SettingSanity, SelfDestructingCookies, Classic Theme Restorer