Jorge Villalobos, the Add-ons Developer Relations Lead at Mozilla, explains: Mozilla announced in February that it will introduce add-on signing in Firefox, to provide a safer add-on experience to its users. Unfortunately, there's not much room for this to change, as security and privacy seems to be a priority for Mozilla here. With Firefox 40, the era of distributed add-ons in a decentralized manner comes to an end. If the user encounters such a page, the following warning will show up: In addition to this, Firefox 40 now issues a warning if users visit a page known to contain deceptive software that can make undesirable changes to your computer. If you'd rather not send data to Google, you can turn off the feature. If the file is flagged as harmful by this service, the download manager will block access to the file until the user performs a right-click, and unblocks it manually. dmg), Firefox asks Google's Safe Browsing service if the file is safe, by sending it some of the download's metadata (file type, name, size, hash, URL, locale). When downloading a file of a type that usually contains Windows or Mac executable code (for example. This was introduced in Firefox 39, which consisted of extending the monitoring of malicious file downloads to the Mac and Linux versions of Firefox. This has been made possible by recent developments in Google's Safe Browsing service-allowing Firefox to identify malware downloads on the platforms it supports and warn users about potentially unwanted software. Malware detection features are now extended in Firefox 40. Mozilla has helped with clear instructions for restoring Firefox as your default browser if you're struggling to do that in Windows 10. However, note that you can only change your desktop search preferences when Firefox is your default web browser. To take advantage of this, navigate to Settings (Options) > Search to change the search in Firefox as well as Windows. There has been controversy over Windows 10 making it difficult for users to switch away from Edge as the default browser and from Bing as the default search engine.įirefox 40 makes it easier for users to choose their preferred search engine. Thoughtful tweaks to the interface to give Firefox a streamlined feel … bigger, bolder design elements as well as more space for viewing the Web.įirefox 39, on Windows 10, looks like this:įirefox 40 on Windows 10 is quite different:įirefox 40 has also improved stabilization in Windows 10-Mozilla tests suggesting that it went from 1 crash per 2 days on Windows 8.1 to 0 crashes in 16 days on Windows 10. These changes are mostly visual, but there are also subtle performance enhancements.
Mozilla has integrated fresh optimizations for Microsoft's new operating system.
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