Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Mozilla Firefox Version 86.0 Released With Security Updates

Firefox

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 86.0 to the release channel today.  The update includes ten security updates of which five (5) are rated high, two (2) moderate and three (3) rated low.

 

Firefox ESR was updated to Version 78.8.

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Moderate

Low

New

Fixed

  • Reader mode now works with local HTML pages.

  • Using screen reader quick navigation to move to editable text controls no longer incorrectly reaches non-editable cells in some grids such as on messenger.com.

  • The Orca screen reader's mouse review feature now works correctly after switching tabs in Firefox.

  • Screen readers no longer report column headers incorrectly in tables containing cells spanning multiple columns.

  • Links in Reader View now have more color contrast.


Changed

  • On Linux and Android, the protection to mitigate the stack clash attack has been activated.

  • From Firefox 86 onward, DTLS 1.0 is no longer supported for establishing WebRTC's PeerConnections. All WebRTC services need to support DTLS 1.2 from now on as the minimum version.

  • Consolidated all video decoding in the new RDD process which results in a more secure Firefox.

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