Mozilla Releases Firefox 42 With Tracking Protection Feature
With the Firefox 42 debut, Mozilla introduces a new tracking protection feature and provides patches for 17 security advisories.
Mozilla's today released the Firefox 42 browser, which provides users with improved privacy and security capabilities.
The new privacy feature in Firefox 42 is called Tracking Protection and currently works inside Firefox's Private Browsing mode. Mozilla first introduced Private Browsing in Firefox 3.1, which was released in 2008. The basic idea with Private Browsing mode is that a user's history and session cookies are not retained after the browser is closed.