Firefox 86 releases: introduces Total Cookie Protection to Strict Mode
Mozilla today released the Firefox 86 browser for all supported desktop platforms. This is a major update for Firefox because this update brings many visible updates.
The most important feature this time is Total Cookie Protection. This feature will set up a separate cookie.jar for each website that visits and stores data. The jar files between the two websites are not interoperable, thereby restricting cross-site access privacy
When Total Cookie Protection detects that the user needs to provide data from this site to another site, it will specifically authorize that site to access cookies on this site.
Therefore, this function can greatly improve the privacy protection of users, and in exceptional circumstances, it can also provide powerful privacy protection capabilities without affecting the browsing experience.
Changelog
New
- Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture.
- Today, Firefox introduces Total Cookie Protection to Strict Mode. In Total Cookie Protection, every website gets its own “cookie jar,” preventing cookies from being used to track you from site to site.
- We’ve improved our Print functionality with a cleaner design and better integration with your computer’s printer settings.
- For Firefox users in Canada, credit card management and auto-fill are now enabled.
Fixed
- Reader mode now works with local HTML pages.
- Using screen reader quick navigation to move to editable text controls no longer incorrectly reaches non-editable cells in some grids such as on messenger.com.
- The Orca screen reader’s mouse review feature now works correctly after switching tabs in Firefox.
- Screen readers no longer report column headers incorrectly in tables containing cells spanning multiple columns.
- Links in Reader View now have more color contrast.
- Various security fixes.
Changed
- On Linux and Android, the protection to mitigate the stack clash attack has been activated.
- From Firefox 86 onward, DTLS 1.0 is no longer supported for establishing WebRTC’s PeerConnections. All WebRTC services need to support DTLS 1.2 from now on as the minimum version.
- Consolidated all video decoding in the new RDD process which results in a more secure Firefox.
Enterprise
Various bug fixes and new policies have been implemented in the latest version of Firefox. You can see more details in the Firefox for Enterprise 86 Release Notes.
Developer
- CSS image-set() function in CSS is now enabled, allowing for responsive images in CSS.
- Inactive CSS tool is now showing a warning when margin or padding is set on internal table elements.
- Developer Tools Toolbox is now showing a number of errors on the current page. This is a quick way to surface information to a developer that something is wrong with their page. Clicking on the red exclamation icon navigates the user to the Console panel.
