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Firefox 42.0 Improves Private Browsing, Better WebRTC

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 3 November 2015 at 02:47 PM EST. 20 Comments

Mozilla published Firefox 42.0 as the newest version of their cross-platform web browser.

Firefox 42 brings private browsing with tracking protection, the control center now has site security and privacy controls, an indicator on tabs for showing audio is playing, WebRTC improvements, login manager improvements, ES6 Reflect support, and various other new HTML5/developer additions.

More details on Firefox 42 can be found via the release notes.

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