From PC World: Mozilla just released the latest Firefox update (version 129.0) for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. This update comes with numerous fixes to security vulnerabilities, an enhanced Reader View, and revised handling of DNS entries. There are also security updates for the two ESR (Extended Support Release) versions of Firefox.
In the security report for Firefox 129, Mozilla lists 14 eliminated security vulnerabilities, which 11 of them categorized as high risk. As far as we know, none of the security vulnerabilities have yet been exploited in real-world attacks.
Firefox now assumes by default that you want to access websites using the encrypted HTTPS protocol when URLs are entered without a specified protocol. If a website doesn’t support HTTPS, only then will Firefox attempt to access using unencrypted HTTP.
In addition, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) no longer has to be activated for Firefox to resolve HTTPS DNS entries with the DNS resolver in Windows 11 and Linux (as well as Android 10 or later).
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