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Firefox support has ended for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 Firefox Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users move to Extended Support Release Note: Firefox version 83 and higher support both Intel-based Macs (x86 architecture) and Apple devices. 1 Install Mozilla Firefox We will use the built-in Safari browser on your Mac to download and install Mozilla Firefox. Open Safari from your Dock. In the address bar at the top, type then press return. 'We offered Firefox users on Apple's M1 Macs our first native build with Firefox 84 Beta this week,' a Mozilla spokesperson told CNET. 'Native support is coming for Release. Before that happens. Mozilla Firefox for Mac is a versatile and feature-packed browser with advanced security features that can hide shared user activity and has customizable privacy settings that protect your system from unwanted tracking and harmful software. Mozilla Firefox is perfect for casual searches as well as more complex queries. 'We offered Firefox users on Apple's M1 Macs our first native build with Firefox 84 Beta this week,' a Mozilla spokesperson told CNET. 'Native support is coming for Release. Before that happens.
Mozilla has launched its latest privacy feature today with Firefox 86 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and more called 'Total Cookie Protection.' The new privacy option creates separate cookie jars for every website you visit to prevent cross-site tracking.
Mozilla detailed the new Firefox feature on its Security blog today:
Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate 'cookie jar' for each website you visit. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to that website, such that it is not allowed to be shared with any other website.
The new security feature is part of Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. But there is support for cross-site tracking exceptions:
In addition, Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers. Only when Total Cookie Protection detects that you intend to use a provider, will it give that provider permission to use a cross-site cookie specifically for the site you're currently visiting. Such momentary exceptions allow for strong privacy protection without affecting your browsing experience.
Total Cookie Protection comes after Mozilla launched Supercookie Protections back in January with Firefox 85. The nonprofit says 'Together these features prevent websites from being able to 'tag' your browser, thereby eliminating the most pervasive cross-site tracking technique.'
For a technical breakdown of how Total Cookie Protection works, you can read Mozilla's developer document here.
Firefox is a free download for Mac (Windows, Linux, Chrombook, too).
Apple includes cross-site tracking prevention in Safari for Mac and iOS that first arrived with macOS Mojave and iOS 12. And of course since then, Apple has moved to further restrict device tracking with the upcoming Ad Tracking Transparency feature launching on iOS 14 in 'early spring.'
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Mozilla Firefox 84 was released today with a dramatic performance boost after adding native support on macOS devices with Apple Silicon processors.
Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 84 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically check for the new update and install it when available.
With the release of Firefox 84, all other Firefox development branches have also moved up a version bringing Firefox Beta to version 85 and the Nightly builds to version 86.
Improves macOS and Linux performance
Below you can find the major changes and improvements in Firefox 84 — if you want to read the full release notes, you can do so here.
Mozilla detailed the new Firefox feature on its Security blog today:
Our new feature, Total Cookie Protection, works by maintaining a separate 'cookie jar' for each website you visit. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to that website, such that it is not allowed to be shared with any other website.
The new security feature is part of Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. But there is support for cross-site tracking exceptions:
In addition, Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers. Only when Total Cookie Protection detects that you intend to use a provider, will it give that provider permission to use a cross-site cookie specifically for the site you're currently visiting. Such momentary exceptions allow for strong privacy protection without affecting your browsing experience.
Total Cookie Protection comes after Mozilla launched Supercookie Protections back in January with Firefox 85. The nonprofit says 'Together these features prevent websites from being able to 'tag' your browser, thereby eliminating the most pervasive cross-site tracking technique.'
For a technical breakdown of how Total Cookie Protection works, you can read Mozilla's developer document here.
Firefox is a free download for Mac (Windows, Linux, Chrombook, too).
Apple includes cross-site tracking prevention in Safari for Mac and iOS that first arrived with macOS Mojave and iOS 12. And of course since then, Apple has moved to further restrict device tracking with the upcoming Ad Tracking Transparency feature launching on iOS 14 in 'early spring.'
Firefox For Apple Macbook
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Mozilla Firefox 84 was released today with a dramatic performance boost after adding native support on macOS devices with Apple Silicon processors.
Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 84 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically check for the new update and install it when available.
With the release of Firefox 84, all other Firefox development branches have also moved up a version bringing Firefox Beta to version 85 and the Nightly builds to version 86.
Improves macOS and Linux performance
Below you can find the major changes and improvements in Firefox 84 — if you want to read the full release notes, you can do so here.
'Native support for macOS devices built with Apple Silicon CPUs brings dramatic performance improvements over the non-native build that was shipped in Firefox 83: Firefox launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive (per the SpeedoMeter 2.0 test),' Mozilla says.
macOS users can follow these steps to upgrade to Firefox 84.0 on a new Mac with an Apple Silicon processor.
Firefox 84 also adds modern shared memory allocation on Linux devices for better performance and Docker compatibility.
'WebRender rolls out to MacOS Big Sur and Windows devices with Intel Gen 5 and 6 GPUs,' Mozilla added. 'Additionally, we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!'
This version is also the final one to support Adobe Flash. Starting with Firefox 85.0, the web browser will no longer support Adobe Flash, with no setting available to re-enable it.
However, macOS users with Apple Silicon Macs may encounter playback errors when streaming encrypted content on video streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Amazon's Prime Video if the Rosetta system software is not installed.
Mozilla has shared info on how to fix this known issue by installing Rosetta on their Apple Silicon Macs (i.e., MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or Mac mini with Apple M1 chips) as a quick workaround.
macOS users running Cylance anti-malware on their systems might also get their Firefox installation corrupted after the antivirus software erroneously flags it as malware.
Fixes critical and high severity vulnerabilities
With the release of Firefox 84, Mozilla has also addressed multiple security vulnerabilities with severity ratings ranging from low to critical.
The most severe one, CVE-2020-16042, is caused by a bug that would have allowed operations on a BigInt to potentially exposed uninitialized memory.
Mozilla also fixed several memory safety bugs impacting previous versions that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems running vulnerable Firefox versions.
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'Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code,' Mozilla explained.
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The full list of vulnerabilities includes:
- CVE-2020-16042: Operations on a BigInt could have caused uninitialized memory to be exposed
- CVE-2020-26971: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
- CVE-2020-26972: Use-After-Free in WebGL
- CVE-2020-26973: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization
- CVE-2020-26974: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free
- CVE-2020-26975: Malicious applications on Android could have induced Firefox for Android into sending arbitrary attacker-specified headers
- CVE-2020-26976: HTTPS pages could have been intercepted by a registered service worker when they should not have been
- CVE-2020-26977: URL spoofing via unresponsive port in Firefox for Android
- CVE-2020-26978: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
- CVE-2020-26979: When entering an address in the address or search bars, a website could have redirected the user before they were navigated to the intended url
- CVE-2020-35111: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs
- CVE-2020-35112: Opening an extension-less download may have inadvertently launched an executable instead
- CVE-2020-35113: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6
- CVE-2020-35114: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84
You can download Firefox 84 from the following links:
If the links above haven't yet been updated to download Firefox 84, you can manually download it from Mozilla's FTP release directory.
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