City
Epaper

Firefox gets hiding email addresses, listening to articles extension for Android

By IANS | Updated: February 19, 2023 13:05 IST

San Francisco, Feb 19 Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox Internet browser, has added three new extensions for ...

Open in App

San Francisco, Feb 19 Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox Internet browser, has added three new extensions for its Android web browser to enhance the browsing experience of its users.

These extensions include hiding the user's email address when signing up to a website, removing tracking elements before sharing a URL, and listening to an article.

With the "Firefox Relay" extension, users will be able to hide their real email address to help protect their identity.

This will prevent online entities from collecting user email addresses and using them for unrequested marketing or other purposes.

Moreover, the company introduced the "ReadAloud" extension, allowing users to listen to web articles instead of reading them.

"ReadAloud uses text-to-speech technology to convert webpage text to audio. It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, online universities and course materials," Mozilla said in a blogpost.

Further, the company adds a "ClearURL" extension, allowing users to remove the tracking elements from the links.

"Sites include tracking elements in the URLs for a number of reasons, but the bottom line is that it's used to track you. ClearURLs simply removes the tracking elements from the links, so you have a simple and clean URL," said Mozilla.

Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

Tags: Mozilla
Open in App

Related Stories

TechnologyMozilla releases last Firefox update for old versions of Windows, macOS

TechnologyMozilla introduces new startup to build open, trustworthy AI

TechnologyData privacy labels for most top apps in Google Play Store misleading: Mozilla

TechnologyMozilla challenges anti-market practices of Google, Apple, Microsoft

TechnologyMozilla Firefox can now automatically remove tracking from URLs

Technology Realted Stories

TechnologyCan mushrooms help boost health in Parkinson's patients?

TechnologyAdani Power logs strong financial performance in FY25, achieves 102 BU power generation

TechnologyNew skin-based test to boost diagnosis of debilitating neurodegenerative disease

TechnologyElectronic Arts Layoffs: American Video Game Company Sack Over 300 Employees, Cancels 'Titanfall' Release

TechnologyPSA Prof Ajay K Sood elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences