Firefox 60

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Mozilla is making things easier for IT folks with Firefox 60. A new policy engine allows Firefox to be deployed with custom configurations appropriate for business and education environments. This seems likely to increase Firefox’s presense on enterprise desktops.

The New Tab (aka Firefox Home) page gets a bit of an overhaul in Firefox 60, with a responsive layout that should work better with wide screens, saved Pocket pages in the Highlights section, and more reordering options.

The Cookies and Site Data section of Firefox’s Preferences page is now a lot easier to understand: the amount of disk space involved is shown, as are the implications of each option.

Twenty-six security vulnerabilities are fixed in Firefox 60.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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