Windows Hello Support Added to Firefox 66

By Ionut Arghire on March 20, 2019

Mozilla this week released Firefox 66 with support for Windows Hello for Web Authentication on Windows 10, as well as with patches for 21 vulnerabilities.

The newly added support for Windows Hello should provide users with a passwordless experience on the web, but also with increased security, Mozilla says.

The browser has Web Authentication support for all desktop platforms since version 60, and Windows 10 becomes the first to include support for the new FIDO2 “passwordless” capabilities for Web Authentication.

“Firefox users on the Windows Insider Program’s fast ring can use any authentication mechanism supported by Windows for websites via Firefox. That includes face or fingerprint biometrics, and a wide range of external security keys via the CTAP2 protocol from FIDO2, as well as existing deployed CTAP1 FIDO U2F-style security keys,” Mozilla says.

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