{"id":35687,"date":"2021-02-24T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=d640efdfd0103296749452c7d9c797ad"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:06:11","slug":"firefox-86-brings-multiple-picture-in-picture-total-cookie-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=35687","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 86 brings multiple Picture-in-Picture, \u201cTotal Cookie Protection\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1744857\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: It's a good thing, and it should be the default everywhere.  \r\nI wish this didn't feel as \"starting to close the gate after the horses bolted\" - Cookies are a problem, but having turned our little hypertext rendering tool into a runtime full of leaky things like WebGL, it's going to be hard to really confront ubiquitous tracking without re-constraining the scope of the browser.<\/div><div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n      <ul><li>\n        <div>  \n        <div><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firefox-86-about.png\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n        <p>\n          I installed Firefox 86 on my Ubuntu workstation using Snap to be certain I wouldn't accidentally mess with my working system configuration.                      [credit:\n                        Jim Salter                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/li>\n      <\/ul><p>Mozilla released Firefox 86 yesterday, and the browser is now available for download and installation for all major operating systems, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/android\/86.0\/releasenotes\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>. Along with the usual round of bug fixes and under-the-hood updates, the new build offers a couple of high-profile features&mdash;multiple Picture-in-Picture video-watching support, and (optional) stricter cookie separation, which Mozilla is branding <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2021\/02\/23\/total-cookie-protection\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Total Cookie Protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking Firefox 86 for a spin<\/h2>\n<p>Firefox 86 became the default <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/download\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download<\/a> at mozilla.org on Tuesday&mdash;but as an Ubuntu 20.04 user, I didn't want to leave the Canonical-managed repositories just to test the new version. This is one scenario in which <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/02\/ubuntu-core-20-adds-secure-boot-with-hardware-backed-encryption\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snaps<\/a>&nbsp;truly excel&mdash;providing you with a containerized version of an application, easily installed but guaranteed not to mess with your \"real\" operating system.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Firefox's snap channel didn't get the message about build 86 being the new default&mdash;the <code>latest\/default<\/code>&nbsp;snap is still on build 85. In order to get the new version, I needed to <code>snap refresh firefox --channel=latest\/candidate<\/code>.<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1744857#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1744857&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=39ugB7go3uQ:R-2_xYc4CEk:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Firefox 86 on my Ubuntu workstatio&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=35687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}