The web browser has been released Firefox 86 . In addition, an update branches with long-term support 78.8.0 . The beta testing stage will be translated Firefox 87 is slated for release on March 23.
- In strict mode of blocking unwanted content (strict) enabled full mode Cookie Protection (Total Cookie Protection), which uses a separate isolated cookie storage for each site. The proposed isolation method does not allow the use of cookies to track movement between sites, since all cookies set from third-party blocks loaded on the site are now bound to the main site and are not transmitted when these blocks are accessed from other sites. As an exception, the cookie cross-site capability is reserved for non-user tracking services such as single authentication.
- For all users, a new interface for previewing a document before printing has been activated and integration with the system settings of the printer is provided. The new interface works by analogy with the reader mode and leads to the opening of a preview in the current tab, replacing the existing content. The sidebar provides tools for selecting a printer, setting the page format, changing print settings, and controlling whether headers and backgrounds are printed.
- Operations for rendering Canvas and WebGL elements have been moved to a separate process responsible for outsourcing operations to the GPU. The change significantly improved the stability and performance of sites using WebGL and Canvas.
- All video decoding code has been moved to a new RDD process, which improves security by isolating video handlers in a separate process.
- Anti-stack / heap traversal attacks are enabled in Linux and Android builds. Protection is based on the use of the “-fstack-clash-protection” option, when specified, the compiler inserts probe calls (probes) on each static or dynamic stack allocation to detect stack overflows and block stack-heap attacks related to forwarding the thread of execution through stack guard pages.
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