Mozilla Firefox 87 Gets Full Support for macOS VoiceOver, SmartBlock, More

Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 87 featuring full support for macOS VoiceOver, Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection with SmartBlock, and more.

Here’s a look at the release notes…

Firefox 87
New:
● You’ll encounter less website breakage in Private Browsing and Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection with SmartBlock, which provides stand-in scripts so that websites load properly.

● To further protect your privacy, our new default HTTP Referrer policy will trim path and query string information from referrer headers to prevent sites from accidentally leaking sensitive user data.

● The “Highlight All” feature on Find in Page now displays tick marks alongside your scrollbar that correspond to the location of matches found on that page.

● We’re proud to announce full support for macOS built-in screen reader, VoiceOver.

● We’ve added a new locale: Silesian (szl)

Fixed:
We’ve fixed several significant accessibility issues:
● Video controls now have visible focus styling and video and audio controls are now keyboard navigable. (Bug 1681007)
● HTML is now spoken by screen readers. (Bug 1460378)
● Firefox now sets a useful initial focus in Add-ons Manager. (Bug 580537)
● Firefox will now fire a name/description change event when aria-labelledby/describedby content changes. (Bug 493683)
● Various security fixes.

Changed:
● To prevent user data loss when filling out forms, we’ve disabled the Backspace key as a navigation shortcut for the back navigation button. To re-enable the Backspace keyboard shortcut, you can change the about:config preference browser.backspace_action to 0. You can also use the recommended Alt + Left arrow (Command + Left arrow on Mac) shortcut instead.

● We’ve removed items from the Library menu that weren’t used often or have other access points in the browser: Synced tabs, Recent highlights, and Pocket list.

● We’ve simplified the Help menu by reducing redundant items, such as those that point to Firefox support pages that can also be accessed via the Get Help item.

You can download Firefox 87 from the link below…

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