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Firefox 67 Letterboxing: New Anti-Fingerprinting Technique Explained

Calendar Mar 06, 2019 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Mozilla browser security Firefox user privacy anti-fingerprinting

Mozilla is scheduled to add a new user anti-fingerprinting technique to Firefox with the release of version 67, scheduled for mid-May this year.

Called "letterboxing," this new technique adds "gray spaces" to the sides of a web page when the user resizes the browser window, which are then gradually removed after the window resize operation has finished.

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