What's new in the F-Secure app for Mac This article outlines important changes and features, as well as fixes released in the latest versions of the F-Secure app.
Version 19.2 (build 51879)
Released June 2023
- New features
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- New Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser extensions
- Added support for new cross-platform browser extensions. These extensions are available on both macOS and Windows and share the same codebase, providing the same functionality across both platforms.
- Added a migration flow to the new cross-platform extensions for customers who have used legacy macOS-specific extensions.
- Enhanced Banking Protection
- Introduced an enhanced banking protection feature. This is designed to protect your browsing experience when you navigate to a malicious site during an active banking session.
- New settings UI controls for the Secure browsing tab
- Added a new option to show or hide reputation ratings for websites in search results.
- Added a new option to clear the clipboard after a banking session is over.
- Added a new view to show the status of each browser extension.
- Other changes
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- Refined the layout and texts of the product's settings tabs.
- Improved the stability of the main user interface.
- Improved messaging for cases when notification permission is not granted to the product.
- Decreased the load on activation backend systems.
Version 19.1 MR1 (build 50190)
Released May 2023
- Other changes
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- Improved how DeepGuard makes decisions for applications that are unknown to Security Cloud.
- Improved macOS Ventura compatibility for VPN.
Version 19.1 (build 50041)
Released April 2023
- New features
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- Enhancements to the file and URL safety checks that provide improved security
- Other changes
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- Browser extensions now notify you of incompatibility when running on an unsupported OS version
- Improvements to macOS firewall state management
- Improvements to the Safari extension's block page rendering on macOS Ventura
- Improvements to the translation of texts with special characters (ellipsis, etc.)
- Improvements to the product update system, Password Vault, and VPN features
Version 19.0 (build 48998)
Released February 2023
- New features
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- Integrated Password Vault (F-Secure Total)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription. - You can access your passwords in the product's main user interface.
- If you have the standalone ID PROTECTION product installed, you can migrate your passwords to the integrated Password Vault.
- After migrating your passwords, the standalone ID PROTECTION product will continue to work, but you can also uninstall it.
- Note that you can only configure the password manager browser extension to work with one product at a time.
- Integrated Virtual private network (VPN)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription. - Viruses and Threats
- Optimized the update process for the real-time scanner database to achieve better stability and overall security.
- Improved performance during system startup.
- DeepGuard
- Improvements to memory consumption in DeepGuard.
- Secure Browsing
- Improvements to how the safety ratings are added to adapt to the new layout in Google search pages.
- Other changes
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- Support for macOS 10.15 (Catalina) has been dropped. Version 19.0 of the app cannot be installed on this macOS version.
- Improvements to Password Vault for biometric authentication.
