Mozilla Firefox Version 57.0

kemical said:

Mozilla has released Version 17.0 of the Firefox browser. The most significant changes are larger icons in the Awesome Bar, a new Social API, a click-to-play blocklist to prevent outdated plugins from loading, performance improvements and bug fixes.

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• FIXED 18.0.1: Problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions (Associated bugs)
• FIXED 18.0.1: Unity player crashes on Mac OS X (bug 828954)
• FIXED 18.0.1: Disabled HIDPI support on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches (bug 814434)
• NEW Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler
• NEW Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
• NEW Preliminary support for WebRTC
• CHANGED Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
• CHANGED Performance improvements around tab switching
• DEVELOPER Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
• DEVELOPER Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
• HTML5 Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
• FIXED Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages (62178)
• FIXED Improved responsiveness for users on proxies (769764)

[h=3]What’s New[/h]

• FIXED​
  [h=5]20.0: Security fixes can be found here[/h]
• NEW​
  [h=5]Per-window Private Browsing. Learn more.[/h]
• NEW​
  [h=5]New download experience. Learn more.[/h]
• NEW​
  [h=5]Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging[/h]
• CHANGED​
  [h=5]Continued performance improvements around common browser tasks (page loads, downloads,shutdown, etc.)[/h]
• DEVELOPER​
  [h=5]Continued implementation of draft ECMAScript 6 -clear() and Math.imul[/h]
• DEVELOPER​
  [h=5]New JavaScript Profiler tool[/h]
• HTML5​
  [h=5]getUserMedia implemented for web access to the user's camera and microphone (with user permission)[/h]
• HTML5​
  [h=5]<canvas> now supports blend modes[/h]
• HTML5​
  [h=5]Various <audio> and <video> improvements[/h]
• FIXED​
  [h=5]Details button on Crash Reporter (793972)[/h]
• FIXED​
  [h=5]Unity plugin doesn't display in HiDPI mode (829284)[/h]

[h=3]Known Issues[/h]

• UNRESOLVED​
  [h=5]If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)[/h]
• UNRESOLVED​
  [h=5]Some function keys may not work when pressed (see833719)[/h]Unresolved on v19 Resolved in v21
  
• UNRESOLVED​
  [h=5]Browsing and Download history clearing needs unification to avoid confusion on clearing download history (see 847627)[/h]Unresolved on v20 Resolved in v21
  
• UNRESOLVED​
  [h=5]Download statusbar add-on continues downloading files from Normal Browsing, when switching to Private Browsing (see 853463)[/h]
• UNRESOLVED​
  [h=5]Copy actions are broken on HTML5 videos (see855726)[/h]Unresolved on v19 Resolved in v21

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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Windows, OS X and Linux, with a mobile version for Android, by Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. As of October 2012, Firefox has approximately 20% to 24% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the third most used web browser, according to different sources. According to...

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