Today, Mozilla released the latest version of its web browser, Firefox 42. Mozilla has released Firefox 42 64-Bit versions for Windows 10/8/7 users and it is now available for download.
This release is a big one from Mozilla as the company has finally succeeded in bringing a stable 64-bit version of the browser for Windows along with the much talked about tracking protection and private browsing feature.
What’s new in Firefox 42
Mute Tabs feature with Audio indicators
How many times you have been caught unguarded when an unwanted advertisement starts making noise and you don’t even know which tab is actually playing an advertisement with voice? Perhaps many a times because we don’t care to what advertisements are actually displayed while we browse pages.
To avoid such embarrassing situations, Firefox 42 is now equipped with Mute Tabs feature with Audio indicators. As shown below, you can actually put off put off the sound from the individual tab by muting or unmuting audio indicators by just a click of your mouse.
User Tracking Protection and enhanced Control Centre
Firefox 42 has added a new feature called as the Private browsing control feature.
Under Private browsing, you have “Tracking Protection” using which you can block certain Web elements that could be used to record or track your browsing activity online.
To allow “Tracking Protection”, go to the Menu and open “New Private Window”. Private window can be easily differentiated by locating a shield icon located at the address bar, in the new Control Center, which is accessed by clicking the globe icon next to a web address as shown below.
Useful Privacy Controls
In Firefox 42 you can manage our privacy settings easily by browsing to the “privacy” section under the menu. You can disable/enable various tracking options and even decide whether you want Firefox to remember or forget your history.
Apart from above, other notable improvements in Firefox 42 include,
- Feature to improve reading performance
- Feature to save usernames and passwords for logins
- Feature to transfer passwords from Chrome or IE
- Stable performance even on heavy duty websites
To download a copy of Firefox 42 for 64-bit version, click here. Alternatively, if you are looking at downloading 32-bit version click here.
The link for 64-bit and 32-bit are the same.
Changed. Thanks.
Hmm, would existing Firefox extensions work with 64bit Firefox?
Well I guess Firefox finally figured out they could no longer snub their nose at a 64bit browser.
some will, people at mozilla will kinda tell wich ones, i guessed a mont ago or so when i first read about x64 out of the test channels that maybe somebody will release an addon to force any addon work on x64 even if mozilla banned it.
do you know why the x64 version isnt on the download list as the linux versions is? i checked yesterday and i thought the x64 version release was deyaled.
Thanks for the input
Just installed Firefox x64. It’s about time. So far, 1st impressions positive. Very quick and smooth. Some addons not working, but that is expected. They will catch up. Thanks Mozilla!
I Just Wanna Say: God Bless #GoogLe #Chrome 😉
64-bit unfortunately by far
less performant than 64-bit
FAKE still shows up as 32 bit