Firefox 3 Months Internet Browser Mozilla Firefox is famous for its privacy-oriented features. It's free and claims to be 44% faster than other popular browsers. To make the Internet open and available to all, Firefox comes with some useful features like private browsing, which prevents online followers, faster loading of pages, and so on.
Mozilla continues to update its browser to comply with the latest user tracking methods. This time, Mozilla plans to add TOR Anti-Fingerprinting technology to Firefox 67. This technique is called "Letterboxing".
What is a browser fingerprint?
What is a browser fingerprint?
If you do not know, a browser footprint is an accurate way to identify unique browsers and track user activities over the Internet. These fingerprints can be used by several external agencies, such as ad networks, to identify users or their devices in part or in full. The most important thing about a browser's footprint is that it works even after you turn off cookies.
The 'Letterboxing' technology protects users from creating these digital fingerprints for their browser. Will essentially add "gray spaces" to the web pages whenever the user changes the size of the browser window and removes it after the user returns to the original size.
The new technology will hide the actual dimensions of the frame by adding spaces with multiples of 200 pixels and 100 pixels while resizing. You'll add gray spaces at the top, bottom, right, or left of the web page. Because the ad display icons for the window resize event make the process slow, Firefox will provide 67 years for it, and will return the window to its actual size in a few parts of a second.
How to activate the Anti-fingerprinting feature?
The "Anti-fingerprinting" feature is not enabled by default. To activate, you will need to visit the "about: config" page, search for "privacy.resistFingerprinting" using the search box and finally set the Anti-fingerprinting feature to "true" as in the following image:
If you think Letterboxing is a new technology, you're wrong. Previously developed for Tor browser in 2015. Although the concept is still the same but the difference lies in its implementation. "In the Tor browser, the entire browser window remains in predefined dimensions, while the Mozilla version uses gray spaces to allow the browser window to be displayed in any size, but the content of the page remains in predefined dimensions."
