The Mozilla Foundation plans to offer protection from cryptomining and fingerprinting in the Firefox 67 version to improve the privacy of every user of the popular browser.
Protect against Cryptomining and fingerprinting by blocking JavaScript cryptominers and some attempts by webpages to collect fingerprints from users.
The Mozilla Foundation has revealed from 2018 that it had plans to improve privacy in Firefox. Since then, he has added some content exclusion options to Firefox 63, and has said he will add more protective features to future versions of Firefox.
So if the plan proceeds as planned, Firefox 67 will have options to block JavaScript cryptominers and some attempts to collect fingerprinting.
Cryptominers use its resources devices to mine, which causes increased CPU activity and much more power consumption. Depending on how the miner is set up, it can slow down the end user's entire system.
Protection from the fingerprinting is not a new feature. The fingerprints collection refers to user profile creation techniques designed to better track. The technique uses information provided by the browser of each device. The Mozilla Foundation first made a choice of fingerprinting from Firefox to 41.
For those who are expecting the new cryptomining protection feature and improvements to fingerprint protection, the 67 release date is 14 May 2019.
The introduction of additional features to protect consumers seems to be delayed by Mozilla, who is accustomed to paying close attention to the privacy of its users. It remains to be seen whether the upcoming options will be enabled by default or come off.
Mozilla, Firefox 67 and reality
For the foundation Mozilla attention and sensitivity to privacy of users seems to be a one-way street, because adding content blocking options to Firefox will set it apart from its main rival browser, Google Chrome.
On the other hand, if we want to look at things a bit more realistically, the survival of the Mozilla Foundation depends on its agreements companys with the engine companies search. So it is doubtful whether Google or other companies will choose a contract for Firefox to use a default search engine, as it will block ads by default.
