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Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features - and Introduces Its New Mascot

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Why This Matters

Firefox's upcoming features, including a built-in VPN, Split View, and Tab Notes, demonstrate its commitment to enhancing user privacy, multitasking, and productivity. These innovations, along with the introduction of a new mascot, highlight Firefox's focus on user empowerment and a more engaging browsing experience, which could influence industry standards for privacy and usability.

Key Takeaways

Split View puts two webpages side by side in one window, making it easy to compare, copy and multitask without bouncing between tabs. Rolling out in Firefox 149 on March 24.

Tab Notes let you add notes to any tab, another tool to help with multitasking and picking up where you left off. Available in Firefox Labs 149 starting March 24.

A free built-in VPN is coming to Firefox on Tuesday, Mozilla announced this week "The roadmap for Firefox this year is the most exciting one we've developed in quite a while," says Firefox head Ajit Varma. "We're improving the fundamentals like speed and performance. We're also launching innovative new open standards in Gecko to ensure the future of the web is open, diverse, and not controlled by a single engine."At the same time we're prioritizing features that give users real power, choice and strong privacy protections, built in a way that only Firefox can. And as always, we'll keep listening, inviting users to help shape what comes next and giving them more reasons to love Firefox."Two new features coming next week:

And Firefox also released a video this week introducing their new mascot Kit.