The tracking protection change is set to arrive in mainstream Firefox by the end of September.įirefox will let you enable tracking protection directly from its options menu with a prominent switch. And once it's enabled, Firefox lets you block tracking site by site instead using the previous all-or-nothing approach by clicking on an information icon on the left side of the address bar. The feature previously was tucked away in a preferences submenu, but now it's accessible directly from the three-line 'hamburger' menu in the upper right of the browser.

Tracking protection blocks website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows your online behavior - something that's useful for targeting ads to specific people but that can invade privacy. Mozilla developers accepted an update to the Firefox Nightly test version on Wednesday that makes tracking protection easier to discover, easier to use and more nuanced. An obscure but increasingly important browser privacy feature in Firefox is getting a big promotion.

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