The new «Firefox» enhances «anti - tracking» .. And corrects 13 weaknesses

The new version of the web browser «Firefox» has many features and features, most notably improved technology to prevent and ban tools and programs that track Internet users, and monitor their activities on the network, and then exploited in a variety of operations, the most important is known as ad spy, where this technology is now able to implement Almost a total ban on such activities, thus giving users more privacy, the release also addressed 13 security vulnerabilities, including one classified as “critical” and three in the “high-risk” category.

This came in the evaluation and technical review issued by analysts of the site «Computer World», about the new version of the browser, after the launch and actually run.

ITP

The review revealed that the most important feature offered by Firefox 70 is the significant improvement in the technology «ITP», which was first introduced in version 65 of the browser, and then developed and improved in version 69, which was launched last July, and then Developed for the third time in the new version, to achieve almost a high level ban on the activities of tools and programs developed by social media giants, led by «Facebook» and «Twitter» and «YouTube» and «LinkedIn», in order to track and compile Data about users' online activities, such as the sites they visit, visit times, and Duration, the nature of the content they are browsing, as well as their searches, conversations they engage in, and comments they write. .

Enhanced version

The company «Mozilla», responsible for the development of the browser, issued a statement in which it addressed users saying: «We have added an improved version of (ITP) technology to the browser block, to prevent and stop the tools put by social media giants to follow what you see and see on the Internet, They collect data about your browsing history to improve your ad targeting.

“With the new optimization, users can set tools to besiege social media on two levels of power, the virtual standard, and the very strict level, which can be chosen by the user,” said Mozilla.

Privacy Report

The new version of Firefox is making a new improvement in the protection of privacy, which represents the second most important development of this version, not only to prevent the tools of tracking and tracking from work, but to expand to include a weekly report, describing the number of times the browser It monitors attempts to track and trace them, and distributes them according to the categories of common sites and networks that attempted to do this kind of activity, as well as the encrypted effects of this, and the browser produces the report on a weekly basis, with the possibility of separating totals to provide data by day.

13 weak points

The third major development of the new version is improved browser security. Information security engineers at Mozilla said that revisions to the previous release (69) revealed that there were 13 security vulnerabilities to be addressed, including one classified as critical on the company's information security index. Mozilla), in addition to three points listed as (high risk) the same indicator », explaining that« these points related to security-related memory errors ».

Mozilla acknowledged that the vulnerabilities detected are among the top two security threat ratings, because they give attackers - who are making some effort - the opportunity to exploit these points to plant and run malicious and random software on users' computers, because they cause "corruption in In addition to these three important developments, Mozilla reported that the new version significantly reduces energy.

Try to stay

ComputerWorld said at the end of its assessment, that the version of Firefox 70, is an attempt by «Mozilla» to increase its presence in the browser market or maintain its presence in this market, and therefore reduced the refresh cycles of the browser to take place every six weeks.

Download the new version

The Firefox 70 version of Windows, Mac OS and Linux can be downloaded from the Mozilla website, which is responsible for developing the browser. This is done in the background, and you only need to restart your browser to get the latest version, which is version 70. Whoever wants to manually update can open the command menu, click on the «Help» command and choose «About Firefox» command to open a page that shows whether The software is updated by the latest version or not.