3 great new features on Firefox 59 you can use today

The upcoming Firefox 59 will help users prevent sites from requesting permission to send notifications and know the user's location, but you can use this feature now in Firefox with a little tricks.

Firefox 59 will be released in March, it will add new settings in permissions to control how the browser accesses the user's location, accesses the camera and microphone of the computer. It will also have a setting to block websites that require permission to send notifications to users.

These settings will be most anticipated, especially the ability to turn off annoying requests that websites pop up asking to send notifications to users, but you also use this feature now. No need to wait for Firefox 59 version using about: config.

1. The "About: Config" tricks improve Firefox browser

1. Turn off the notification request

Have you answered " Allow " when a website asks if it can send you notifications? If you're tired of constantly answering " Block " for this question, there's a way to stop websites from asking you anymore.

Enter about: config in Firefox's address bar and click the I accept the risk button. Search for dom.push.enabled and double-click it to convert the value from true to false .

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2. Turn off the request for location

Many websites also require a user's location, which can be useful for some types of websites, such as weather, maps, etc. but certainly not for all websites. If you want to disable all sites that do not require your location, go to about: config , search geo.enabled and set the value to false .

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3. Turn off the camera and microphone access request

You may get a few requests from websites about using your computer's webcam and microphone, but you can also turn off these requests in about: config . Find media.navigator.enabled and media.peerconnection.enabled and set these values ​​to false .

I wish you all success!

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