Beta and nightly builds of Firefox now protect against fingerprinting and cryptomining

Mozilla has added new protective features to the nightly and beta versions of Firefox. Through a partnership with Disconnect, the browser is now able to block cryptocurrency mining and fingerprinting scripts. The new features mean that users are protected against scripts that can be used to track them online, as well as those that use CPU cycles to mine for cryptocurrency. Mozilla says it is part of its mission to protect people from 'threats and annoyances on the web'. See also: Mozilla is launching curated Recommended Extensions program this summer How to enable dark mode in new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge… [Continue Reading]