Reworked: Mozilla Firefox 43.0.2 supplies from

Mozilla has its Internet browser Firefox reworked again and the version 43.0.2 available for download. After the use of SHA-256-signing certificate for Windows has been prepared in Firefox 43.0.1, this is now fully implemented. In order for the developer to meet new requirements, which will launch on 1 January 2016 Microsoft.

Mozilla also promises more stability and security fixes, called previously but only the 16 security-related changes which had already announced the release of the Firefox 43.0. Four of them take care of critical, highly dangerous to seven and three to moderate vulnerabilities. Two additional vulnerabilities are relatively harmless.

Among the critical issues is next to a variety of memory problems and a privilege escalation on the WebExtension APIs, thus any web content can be executed in the security context of vulnerable WebExtensions. Also critical are bypassing the same-origin policy using the data URIs: classified, and a crash of the communication interface WebRTC: and view-soure. The latter is triggered by the call of a data channel, which has been closed by another function.

Among the general improvements of Firefox 43.0 include an expansion of the tracking protection for Private Browsing. This has been extended to a second list, which the user can adjust the strength of the Tacking blockade (see above screenshot). For the first time the 64-bit version of Windows will be officially available on the download page, plus there is a better API support for playback of video and M4V in Windows 8 and new is the onscreen keyboard automatically appears when needed. The address bar, which goes by the name “Awesome Bar” in Firefox, can now also display search suggestions, and the Eyedropper tool now also with different zoom levels cope.