Following the official release of Firefox 81 on September 24, Mozilla Firefox 82.0 Beta 7 was unveiled today . The biggest highlight of the new version is the addition of the function of blocking drive-by downloads .
The so-called drive-by download refers to the use of a function called sandboxed iframes to attack. When a user visits a website embedded with malicious code, it will use the legal function of the browser to automatically download the file or prompt the download to induce the user to run malicious program.
It is reported that Google Chrome began to block sandboxed iframes downloads from Chrome 73 released in 2019, and this option was completely removed in Chrome 83 in May of this year.
Naijatechnews is informed that now, Firefox also said that it will introduce this feature and block drive-by downloads in the official version of Firefox 82. It is expected that the official version will be released this month . Please click to download the beta version .
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