According to the release notes of the upcoming Firefox 52 already on the Beta channel for testers and web developers, it looks like the new browser will update Firefox Sync technology to allow us to send our open tabs from one device to another. As an added feature of the upcoming Firefox, it will also apply more stringent security specifications to Cookies.
“The Strict feature Secure Cookies will prevent insecure (http) pages from sending cookies as secure, and in some cases, will prevent an insecure site from sending a cookie with the same name as an existing "secure" cookie from the same Strict Secure Cookies base," states the Mozilla Foundation.
In addition to the usual security improvements that the upcoming Firefox 52 browser will release in ESR, it will also improve the download experience by displaying notifications to users when a download fails, it will have larger buttons to restart or cancel a download, as well as access to the five most recent downloads, and not to the three we have known so far.
Among other security-related changes, Firefox 52 promises to reduce fingerprinting by trackers by removing the Battery Status API and degrading Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) support for plugins such as Silverlight's Microsoft, Oracle Java, and Adobe Acrobat, which will no longer be supported.
For web developers, Firefox 52 will have enabled support for CSS Grid Layout, Responsive Design Mode redesign, as well as appearance preview for sharing screens, which will no longer require a whitelist of domains.
The final version of Firefox 52 will be released on 7 March, 2017, but you can download the latest Beta versions for Windows, Linux and MacOS from the following Links:
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