Mozilla Firefox 85 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New | Linux Today

Mozilla Firefox 85 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Jan 25, 2021

Firefox 85 is the first release of the popular open-source and cross-platform web browser to drop support for the Adobe Flash Player plugin. This means that you won’t be able to re-enable Flash support, especially because the Flash plugin has stopped loading Flash content since January 12th, 2021. Now that Flash is gone, let’s take a look at the new features as Firefox 85 comes with a major privacy feature called ???Network partitioning,??? which promises to improve your privacy while surfing the Web by partitioning the network resources instead of sharing them to eliminate cross-site tracking.

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Marius Nestor

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