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Firefox 132 Enters Beta with Support for Blocking Third-Party Cookie Access

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With the Firefox 131 release rolling out today to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major version, Firefox 132, to the beta channel for public testing.

Firefox 132 is another boring release that adds support for blocking third-party cookie access with Enhanced Tracking Protection’s Strict mode, support for blocking HTTP-favicons if they aren’t served over HTTPS, and enabling WebRender hardware accelerated rendering for most SVG Filter Primitives to improve the performance of certain graphics-heavy content.

In addition, the upcoming Firefox release addresses an issue with the “expire” attribute value for cookies by adding the delta between the server and the local times, and removes support for the HTTP/2 Push protocol due to compatibility issues with various websites.

For Android users, Firefox 132 promises the ability to resize the visual viewport of a web page when the software keyboard is shown but not its layout viewport. This change will avoid an expensive reflow and provides for a more usable layout on many pages, said Mozilla.

For web developers, Firefox 132 promises support for a post-quantum key exchange mechanism for TLS 1.3 (mlkem768x25519), support for the requestVideoFrameCallback() method on the HTMLVideoElement interface for performing efficient operations on each video frame, support for the getCapabilities method, which allows apps to gather the media capabilities supported for the live MediaStreamTrack, and support for the fetchpriority attribute.

“The fetchpriority attribute enables web developers to optimize resource loading by specifying the relative priority of resources to be fetched by the browser. It accepts three values: auto (default priority), low (lower priority), high (higher priority). It can be specified on script, link, img elements, on the RequestInit parameter of the fetch() method and Link response headers. The HTML specification leaves the detailed interpretation of this attribute up to implementers. Firefox will typically use it to increase or decrease the urgency parameter of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 requests,” said Mozilla.

Once again, the long-awaited Cookie Banner Blocker feature, which instructs Firefox to automatically refuse cookie banners for you is once again present in the beta version. Most probably, it won’t be included in the final release, but fingers crossed.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox 132 later this month on October 29th, 2024, along with Firefox 128.4 and Firefox 115.17 ESR releases. Until then, you can take the latest Firefox 132 beta version for a test drive by downloading the binaries from the official website. However, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release version not intended for production use as it may lead to data loss.

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