The sandbox technology is an offering that enables you to create an isolated test environment within a system.

In the IT realm, sandboxing is becoming increasingly popular. Read: All you need to know about application security testing What is sandboxing? Amidst the cybercrime turmoils, sandboxing acts as a technology to efficiently protect digital assets and systems. Since 2001, the financial damage driven by cybercrime has continually increased, which reached $4.2 billion in 2020 as per IC3 reports. According to Statista, in the year 2020, the number of data breaches in the US accounted for 1001 cases, while over the same year, more than 155.8 million individuals were impacted by these data exposures. Not only do these issues jeopardize the sensitive data and information but cause hefty financial losses. Ahead of Mozilla's official announcement, Firefox 99.0 can be downloaded from the server.Organizations across the globe are breached with multiple security issues. That about wraps up the notable changes of Firefox 99. Other changes with Firefox 99 include PDF viewer search support with/without diacritics, toggling the narrate in reader mode functionality via the 'n' keyboard shortcut, and user-agent string testing around compatibility with next month's Firefox 100 (three digit version) release. Web MIDI has already been supported by Google Chrome.

Web MIDI offers a simple JavaScript API for interfacing with MIDI devices. Firefox 99 did enable GTK overlay scrollbar support during nightly and early beta releases as another Linux-specific improvement but that functionality is disabled for the stable release.įirefox 99 also introduces the Web MIDI API for offering some level of web integration around MIDI protocol devices such as synthesizers, musical keyboards, and other controllers. Mozilla is officially shipping Firefox 99 today and the last feature release before next month's Firefox 100 milestone.įirefox 99 is a modest release with several changes this month worth noting for this cross-platform, open-source web browser.įirefox 99's Linux sandbox has been strengthened so the processes exposed to web content no longer have access to any underlying X11 server.

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