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The web browser wars between Google and Microsoft have intensified significantly, off late. This is particularly true since Microsoft started pushing the new Edge browser to all Windows 10 and Windows 7 PCs as part of a Windows Update package, over the summer. In fact, the Microsoft Edge web browser, ever since it adopted Chromium as its foundation earlier this year, has been steadily gaining popularity. We had reported in early May that Edge was now nipping at the heels of Mozilla Firefox in the global market share, at least as far as the desktop and PC users are concerned. It has finally gone past Firefox, as far as the market share is concerned.

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The latest numbers by Netmarketshare indicates that Microsoft Edge has settled into second place, albeit a distant second to the runaway leader Google Chrome. That means Mozilla Firefox drops down to third. Google Chrome rocks a global market share of 71.11% at the end of July, while Microsoft Edge now has 8.09% share of the browser ecosystem around the world. Mozilla’s Firefox clocks in with 7.36% share. Firefox had 7.58% share at the end of June.

Microsoft revamped the Edge web browser to use Chromium earlier this year from the EdgeHTML platform it used before, and is now available for Windows 10, Windows 7, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS platforms. While it has its advantages over Google Chrome, at least in terms of being less resource hungry, Edge most certainly got a big push over the summer as Microsoft is now pushing the Edge web browser via the automatic Windows Update route to PCs running Windows 10. Microsoft has been consistently adding new features to Edge and also improving its performance regularly to make it work better on older PCs as well.

This is a follow-through of the war of words that Mozilla and Microsoft have already engaged in, over web standards. In December 2018, when Microsoft announced that it would adopt Chromium for its next Edge browser evolution, Mozilla had accused Microsoft of giving up on the EdgeHTML standard and strengthening Google’s position.

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“Google is a fierce competitor with highly talented employees and a monopolistic hold on unique assets. Google’s dominance across search, advertising, smartphones, and data capture creates a vastly tilted playing field that works against the rest of us,” said Mozilla's Chris Beard at the time. He eventually stepped down as CEO of Mozilla Corporation in September 2019. Subsequently, Microsoft fired back in a post which said, “It's time for Mozilla to get down from their philosophical ivory tower. The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really cared about the web they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than 5 percent.”

There may have been some truth in what Mozilla had indicated at, back in 2018. Just a look at the data for the last three months shows Google Chrome’s share continues to rise as more people are adopting it as the standard browser on their PCs, smartphones and tablets. Chrome had 69.81% share in May this year, which increased to 70.19% in June and is now 71.11% as per the latest numbers at the end of July. Microsoft Edge’s growth, in the same period indicates shares of 7.86%, 8.07% and 8.09%--most certainly not as steep a rise as one would have expected now that the new Microsoft Edge browser is being updated on most Windows 10 PCs, if not all already.

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Mozilla Firefox 85 was released today with supercookie protection to block hidden trackers from tracking Firefox users' activity while browsing the Internet.

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Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Firefox 85 by going to Options -> Help -> About Firefox. The browser will automatically check for the new update and install it when available.

With the release of Firefox 85, all other Firefox development branches have also moved up a version bringing Firefox Beta to version 86 and the Nightly builds to version 87.

You can download Firefox 85 from the following links:

If the download links above haven't yet been updated to download the latest Firefox version, you can manually download it from Mozilla's official FTP release directory.

Below you can find the major changes and improvements in Firefox 85 — if you want to read the full release notes, you can do so here.

Built-in protection from supercookies

'Firefox now protects you from supercookies, a type of tracker that can stay hidden in your browser and track you online, even after you clear cookies,' the released notes read.

'By isolating supercookies, Firefox prevents them from tracking your web browsing from one site to the next.'

Mozilla has been fighting against online tracking and adtech companies since 2018 by enabling Firefox to automatically block cookies from known trackers via enhanced tracking protection enabled by default.

Starting with Firefox 72 launched one year ago in January 2020, the web browser is also auto-blocking scripts designed by known fingerprinting companies for browser fingerprinting via cross-site tracking.

With the release of Firefox 85, Mozilla's browser is isolating caches and network connections for each visited website. This makes supercookies useless for tracking users while browsing between sites.

'In short, supercookies can be used in place of ordinary cookies to store user identifiers, but they are much more difficult to delete and block,' Mozilla's Steven Englehardt and Arthur Edelstein explained.

'Over the years, trackers have been found storing user identifiers as supercookies in increasingly obscure parts of the browser, including in Flash storage, ETags, and HSTS flags.'

Other new features and changes in Firefox 85

The other highlight of this Firefox release is the removal of Adobe Flash support. The new Firefox version ships without Flash support, thus improving the browser's performance and security.

Adobe's Flash Player reached its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after being a constant security risk over the years.

Adobe is displaying alerts on Windows computers advising users to 'immediately' uninstall Flash Player from their systems and has removed all Flash Player download pages from its websites.

Starting with this Firefox release, there is no setting available for users who want to re-enable Flash support.

Firefox 85 also allows users to remove all saved logins with a single mouse click and improves bookmark management.

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Fixes high severity vulnerabilities

Firefox 85 also addresses multiple security vulnerabilities with severity ratings ranging from low to high severity.

The most severe ones, CVE-2021-23964 and CVE-2021-23965, are caused by memory safety bugs that would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely on systems running vulnerable Firefox versions.

'Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code,' Mozilla explained.

Mozilla also fixed a vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-23955) that could have enabled attackers to launch clickjacking attacks across tabs through misusing requestPointerLock.

The full list of vulnerabilities includes:

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• CVE-2021-23953: Cross-origin information leakage via redirected PDF requests
• CVE-2021-23954: Type confusion when using logical assignment operators in JavaScript switch statements
• CVE-2021-23955: Clickjacking across tabs through misusing requestPointerLock
• CVE-2021-23956: File picker dialog could have been used to disclose a complete directory
• CVE-2021-23957: Iframe sandbox could have been bypassed on Android via the intent URL scheme
• CVE-2021-23958: Screen sharing permission leaked across tabs
• CVE-2021-23959: Cross-Site Scripting in error pages on Firefox for Android
• CVE-2021-23960: Use-after-poison for incorrectly redeclared JavaScript variables during GC
• CVE-2021-23961: More internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
• CVE-2021-23962: Use-after-poison in nsTreeBodyFrame::RowCountChanged
• CVE-2021-23963: Permission prompt inaccessible after asking for additional permissions
• CVE-2021-23964: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7
• CVE-2021-23965: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 85