{"id":9306,"date":"2019-09-04T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:15:20","slug":"firefox-69-0-enhanced-tracking-protection-enabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/firefox-69-0-enhanced-tracking-protection-enabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 69.0 Released with Enhanced Tracking Protection Enabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/firefox_icon245x250.png\" alt=\"Firefox 55\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 69.0 was released today. The new release rolls out stronger privacy protections by enabling Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enhanced Tracking Protection<\/a> blocks third-party sites from tracking cookies and cryptominers. There&#8217;s also optional strict setting blocks fingerprinters as well as the items blocked in the default standard setting.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Firefox 69.0 includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Option to block any video that automatically starts playing<\/li>\n<li>New \u201cNew Tab\u201d page experience for users in the US or using the en-US browser<\/li>\n<li>WebRTC conferencing services support for receiving multiple video codecs<\/li>\n<li>Performance and UI improvements to Windows 10<\/li>\n<li>Improved battery life and download UI for macOS.<\/li>\n<li>Various security fixes. <\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/69.0\/releasenotes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Firefox 69.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The new release package has been made into the main repositories for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Simply open <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager) and install the updates for Firefox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/upgradefirefox69-450x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/upgradefirefox69-450x335.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/upgradefirefox69-600x447.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/upgradefirefox69.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t see the Firefox updates, go to <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and make sure the <code>security<\/code> and <code>updates<\/code> repositories are enabled in Updates tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 69.0 was released today. The new release rolls out stronger privacy protections by enabling Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) by default. Enhanced Tracking Protection blocks third-party sites from tracking cookies and cryptominers. There&#8217;s also optional strict setting blocks fingerprinters as well as the items blocked in the default standard setting. Other changes in Firefox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}