Mozilla Boosts VPN Security On Its Desktop And Mobile With Two New Features

Mozilla just rolled out an update to its mobile and desktop VPN offerings. (photo: doc. Mozilla)

JAKARTA - Mozilla has just rolled out an update to its mobile and desktop VPN offerings that includes two new privacy features.

Those features include Multi-Account Containers, a popular Firefox feature that helps keep online activities isolated from each other, now available in the Mozilla VPN desktop app.

Second, Mozilla VPN's multi-hop feature, which routes VPN connections through two different servers, is now available on Android and iOS service apps.

The Multi-Account Containers add-on has been available for the Firefox browser since 2017, and now Mozilla has made it available as an additional privacy feature for its VPN service.

This feature allows users to easily separate personal, work, banking, and social media activities from each other.

Users can now take advantage of this functionality when using Mozilla VPN and protect their privacy by routing each individual activity through different outgoing servers in different locations.

"Suppose you travel for work and use your computer to check your work email from Paris, France but want to also check your personal banking account in New York City," Mozilla said in an official statement, as quoted by TechCrunch, Wednesday, February 2.

"That's where you can separate your online work and personal finances with Multi-Account Containers plus the added privacy of Mozilla VPN and choose from over 400 servers in 30 countries."

Meanwhile last year, Mozilla also launched a multi-hop feature on the desktop that allows people to use two VPN servers instead of a single VPN service, which is now rolling out on Android and iOS mobile devices.

This important feature is very useful because it routes the user's connection through two separate VPN servers instead of just one. By doing so, user privacy is essentially doubled as they will get an extra layer of encryption by running the connection through two VPN servers.

The release of this new update comes as Mozilla recently introduced its Total Cooke Protection offering, which is used to combat cross-site tracking, to Firefox Focus on Android.

Total Cooke Protection's goal is to help reduce cross-site tracking where companies collect information about users such as sites visited daily or products searched for.