again wrong - the /beta/ path is discontinued. read again: they wrote "beta", not "versions". versions means finals in history.
Firefox 60 with new preference to disable FTP February 20, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/20/firefox-60-with-new-preference-to-disable-ftp/
FIrefox Nightly can now use it's own DNS resolver that supports DNS-over-HTTPS instead of the systems DNS resolver: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434852
Currently do DNS lookups occur in the open unless you use something like DNSCrypt? This Firefox feature sounds like a good thing which will hopefully become available in the stable release down the road.
Yes, normal DNS is insecure. You need either DNSCrypt or DNS-over-HTTPS. DNSSEC checks authenticity but does not encrypt the traffic.
It's one of the six ways to encrypt DNS currently. It's at draft stage still but most probably will become standard (because easy to implement). Only real standards right now are the RFC 7858 (DNS-over-TLS) that you mentioned and RFC 8094 (DNS-over DTLS, no implementation exists) https://www.slideshare.net/MenandMice/how-to-send-dns-over-anything-encrypted EDIT: DNS over Tor (page 31): bad idea.
What do you think of this one? https://simplednscrypt.org/ http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/simple_dnscrypt.html
Mozilla removes individual cookie management in Firefox 60 February 26, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/26/mozilla-removes-individual-cookie-management-in-firefox-60/
wth are they stupid? no native cookie control in firefox? [insert list of names here] i have in mind, that mozilla plans to merge all website-data in one box (webappstore), so this might be the beginning.
It's an unfortunate decision. However, as the gHacks article already said, there are enough add-ons which you can use instead. Right now, I'm not using any of those cookie managers. Rather, I'm using Temporay Containers in combination with browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs=true and First-Party Isolation (privacy.firstparty.isolate=true). This means that every bookmark is opened in its own tab and, hence, in its own temporary container which is deleted after some minutes, and additionally First-Party Isolation is applied. This makes any cookie manager dispensable, IMHO.
Firefox 60: Disable Firefox Sync integration February 28, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/28/firefox-60-disable-firefox-sync-integration/
Official statement: Discontinuing support for beta versions February 28, 2018 https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/02/28/discontinuing-support-for-beta-versions/ Mozilla discontinues support for Firefox extension beta versions March 01, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/01/mozilla-discontinues-support-for-firefox-extension-beta-versions/
Sorry for the late reply, I had forgotten about it. I have never used it so I can't comment on it. I used the old OpenDNS GUI version first and after that the DNSCrypt proxy.
I have been using Simple DnsCrypt for a while now and like it a lot. It's now getting regular updates and has a good number or resolvers. It also gets me faster browsing.
Firefox 60 ships with Windows Group Policy Support Mozilla is working on integrating Group Policy Support for Firefox running on Windows devices in the upcoming Firefox 60 release. March 10, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/10/firefox-60-ships-with-windows-group-policy-support/
Firefox 59: Firefox Screenshots gets image editing functionality Mozilla plans to improve the built-in screenshot tool of the Firefox web browser in Firefox 59 Stable by adding image editing functionality to it. March 12, 2018 https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/mozilla-firefox.388154/page-14
Mozilla wants to do something about annoying in-page popups In-page popups can be quite the annoyance on the Internet. These popups appear on the active page and not in form of a new windows displayed over or under the current browser window. March 12, 2018 https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/12/mozilla-wants-to-do-something-about-annoying-in-page-popups/
