Tag Archives: Firefox

Firefox addon Web Security transfers private data

Posted on 2018-08-16 by guenni

[German]It isn't a nice story so far: Mozilla's developers have recommended the addon Web Security for a short time to protect privacy and to secure the browser. However, this addon transmits the URLs and other (possibly private or sensitive) data … Continue reading →

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Firefox 61.0.2 released

Posted on 2018-08-09 by guenni

[German]Mozilla's developers have released an (unscheduled) update to Firefox 61.0.2. This update brings some bug fixes (if I haven't overlooked anything but no security fixes). In addition, a new, practical function (automatic recovery) is introduced for Windows

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Mozilla’s DNS Single Point of Failure build into Firefox

Posted on 2018-08-08 by guenni

[German]Firefox developers are starting again a (security) war against it's users by attempting, to implement DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) into Firefox browser. But Mozilla's way to do that, is a Single Point of Failure  (SPOF). Here is … Continue reading →

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Browser Add-On Stylish for Chrome/Firefox banned

Posted on 2018-07-08 by guenni

[German]Google and Mozilla have banned the Stylish browser extension (AddOn) from the stores. Here is some background information about this add-on.

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Firefox 61 released

Posted on 2018-06-26 by guenni

Mozilla's developers have released Firefox version 61 for Windows, Linux and macOS. Besides some improvements and support for TLS 1.3 there is also a dark theme in the browser.

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PSA: Critical Vulnerability in Firefox browser – update required

Posted on 2018-01-31 by guenni

[German]Users of the Firefox browser on Linux, macOS and Windows should urgently upgrade (their desktop version) to version 58.0.1. Older versions (with the exception of Firefox 52 ESR and Firefox for Android) have a critical vulnerability.

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Firefox 57.0.1 released

Posted on 2017-11-30 by guenni

[German]The Mozilla foundation has released Firefox version 57 – aka Firefox Quantum – mid of November 2017. Now they are providing a bug fix and security update, shifting the browser to version 57.0.1.

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Firefox 56.0.2 released

Posted on 2017-10-27 by guenni

Mozilla's developers has released Firefox version 56.0.2 on October 26, 2017 in Release Channel. The changelog lists only minor bug fixes. The Firefox installer may be downloaded from this Firefox page. (via)

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Firefox privacy settings – what to know

Posted on 2017-02-14 by guenni

Firefox browser is still popular and well used on desktop systems (Windows, Mac OS, Linux). And the browser provides a lot settings to customize it's behavior. One aspect is the question "how to customize Firefox privacy settings"?

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Firefox Focus: The ‘Privacy Browser’ with build in user tracking

Posted on 2017-02-12 by guenni

[German]Mozilla Foundation started last November shipping Firefox Focus as a privacy browser for iOS devices. But behind the scenes, this iOS app comes with a third-party tracking framework, that sends user tracking data to a big data collecting company. And: … Continue reading →

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