As always, we announced the release of Firefox 72 early. Release is scheduled to begin today, January 7, for all supported GNU / Linux, macOS and Windows platforms.
This version is being developed since the beginning of December 2019 and promises to bring Picture-in-Picture (PiP) video controls to the GNU / Linux and macOS platforms, as Windows users already had PiP support from the Firefox 71 version.
Picture-in-Picture is enabled by default, so after upgrading to Firefox 72, Linux and MacOS users can finally watch videos from different webpages in one window while working on other tabs by selecting the blue icon on the far right of a video.
Firefox 72 also continues to improve the browser's built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection feature, preventing all supported operating systems (Linux, MacOS and Windows) from fingerprinting scripts by default.
"Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection marks a major new milestone in our fight against inter-site surveillance: we are now turning off fingerprinting scripts for all users, taking a bold new step in our fight for our users' privacy." he says Mozilla.
Among other notable changes in Firefox 72, we can mention that annoying pop-up notification requests have been replaced by a speech bubble that will appear in the address bar when you interact with a site and will not interrupt your browsing.
Firefox 72 also adds support for using client certificates from the Windows operating system certificate store.
Of course you can download the Firefox 72 browser for the operating system you are interested in from the links provided we gave from yesterday. If you want to update your facilities through the OTA (Over-the-Air) update mechanism, you will have to wait until tomorrow.
