Firefox 86 Gains Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture Views - MacRumors
Skip to Content

Firefox 86 Gains Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture Views

Mozilla today released Firefox 86 for Macs, Windows, and Linux machines, introducing a new feature called Total Cookie Protection.

firefox total cookie protection
Total Cookie Protection is designed to stop cookies from tracking users across the web by introducing a "separate cookie jar for every website."

Total Cookie Protection is available as part of Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection functionality, and can be enabled when the browser is set to ETP Strict Mode. Mozilla says that Firefox now offers "strong, comprehensive protection" to combat cookie tracking.


The update also adds support for multiple picture-in-picture views, plus keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. Firefox 86 is available now from the Mozilla website.

Tag: Firefox

Popular Stories

macbook ultra

'MacBook Ultra' Coming Soon With These 12 New Features

Friday July 24, 2026 6:00 pm PDT by
Apple's first high-end MacBook redesign in five years is expected to arrive in the near future, bringing a run of firsts to the Mac. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects the laptop to arrive between late 2026 and early 2027, with the later window now looking more likely owing to the global memory chip shortage. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects mass production to begin by late 2026. Apple last...
iPhone 18 Pro Deep Red Feature

iPhone 18 Pro Launching in Two Months With These 12 New Features

Friday July 24, 2026 7:26 pm PDT by
It is now late July, and that means the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are less than two months away. The devices are expected to look similar to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, but there will still be many year-over-year changes, with rumored features including a smaller Dynamic Island, 5G via satellite, and more. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro...
5 Reasons to Buy the iPhone 17 Now Feature

5 Reasons to Buy the iPhone 17 Now Instead of Waiting for iPhone 18

Thursday July 23, 2026 8:26 am PDT by
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models and its first foldable are less than two months from being unveiled. That may sound like a reason to sit tight if you're looking to upgrade from an iPhone 16 or older series, but between looming price hikes and Apple's new split-launch calendar, there's a decent case for grabbing an iPhone 17 series model right now. Here are five reasons in favor of putting your order ...

Top Rated Comments

luvbug Avatar
71 months ago
It'd be sweet for MR to do a feature comparing the privacy features of Safari, FF, Brave, Chrome (for example).
Score: 62 Votes (Like | Disagree)
71 months ago
Time to acuse Mozilla of monopoly for not allowing cross-website tracking
Score: 39 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jz0309 Avatar
71 months ago
that sounds really cool and useful maybe I need to install it
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
throAU Avatar
71 months ago

Mozilla today released ('https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/23/latest-firefox-release-includes-multiple-picture-in-picture-and-total-cookie-protection/') Firefox 86 for Macs, Windows, and Linux machines, introducing a new feature called Total Cookie Protection.



Total Cookie Protection is designed to stop cookies from tracking users across the web by introducing ('https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/') a "separate cookie jar for every website."

Total Cookie Protection is available as part of Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection functionality, and can be enabled when the browser is set to ETP Strict Mode ('https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop'). Mozilla says that Firefox now offers "strong, comprehensive protection" to combat cookie tracking.



The update also adds support for multiple picture-in-picture views, plus keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. Firefox 86 is available now from the Mozilla website ('https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/').

Article Link: Firefox 86 Gains Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture Views ('https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/firefox-86-total-cookie-protection/')
It's really an indictment of the web development industry that this wasn't how cookies were set up to operate from the start.
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
71 months ago

You gotta wonder why it didn’t work this was to begin with.
Because privacy kills small businesses like Facebook! - MZ
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Strategia Avatar
71 months ago
The best and most private browser gets even better.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)