Mozilla Firefox Version 57.0

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 34.0 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• NEW
  Default search engine changed to Yandex for Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian locales
  
  
• NEW
  Improved search bar (en-US only)
  
  
• NEW
  Firefox Hello real-time communication client
  
  
• NEW
  Easily switch themes/personas directly in the Customizing mode
  
  
• NEW
  Wikipedia search now uses HTTPS for secure searching (en-US only)
  
  
• NEW
  Implementation of HTTP/2 (draft14) and ALPN
  
  
• NEW
  Recover from a locked Firefox process in the "Firefox is already running" dialog on Windows
  
  
• CHANGED
  Disabled SSLv3
  
  
• CHANGED
  Proprietary window.crypto properties/functions re-enabled (to be removed in Firefox 35)
  
  
• CHANGED
  Firefox signed by Apple OS X version 2 signature
  
  
• HTML5
  ECMAScript 6 WeakSet Implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  JavaScript Template Strings Implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS3 Font variants and features control (e.g. kerning) implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  WebCrypto: RSA-OAEP, PBKDF2 and AES-KW support
  
  
• HTML5
  WebCrypto: wrapKey and unwrapKey implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  WebCrypto: Import/export of JWK-formatted keys
  
  
• HTML5
  matches() DOM API implemented (formerlymozMatchesSelector())
  
  
• HTML5
  Performance.now() for workers implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  WebCrypto: ECDH support
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  WebIDE: Create, edit, and test a new Web application from your browser
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Highlight all nodes that match a given selector in the Style Editor and the Inspector's Rules panel
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Improved User Interface of the Profiler
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  console.table function added to web console
  
  
• FIXED
  CSS transitions start correctly when started at the same time as changes to display, position, overflow, and similar properties
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[brkkab]

In The U.S. the default search engine changed from Google to Yahoo.

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 35.0 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• NEW
  Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model
  
  
• NEW
  New search UI improved and enabled for more locales
  
  
• NEW
  Access the Firefox Marketplace from the Tools menu and optional toolbar button
  
  
• NEW
  Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs
  
  
• NEW
  Use tiled rendering on OS X
  
  
• NEW
  Improved high quality image resizing performance
  
  
• NEW
  Improved handling of dynamic styling changes to increase responsiveness
  
  
• NEW
  Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension (for enhanced authentication of encrypted connections)
  
  
• HTML5
  Added support for the CSS Font Loading API
  
  
• HTML5
  Resource Timing API implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS filters enabled by default
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'let' semantics to match the ES6 specification
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Computed view: Nodes matching the hovered selector are now highlighted
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Network Monitor: New request/response headers view (more info)
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Added support for the EXT_blend_minmax WebGL extension
  
  
• FIXED
  Show DOM Properties context menu item in inspector
  
  
• FIXED
  Reduced resource usage for scaled images
  
  
• FIXED
  PDF.js updated to version 1.0.907
  
  
• FIXED
  Non-HTTP(S) XHR now returns correct status code
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Sometimes images don't display when hovered over (seebug 1083113)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  WebGL games might not display some textures (see bug 1113633)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Issues affecting RTL in Hello can be found here

ref:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/35.0/releasenotes/

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 35.0.1 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• FIXED
  
  35.0.1 - With the Enhanced Steam extension, Firefox could crash (1123732)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - Fix a potential startup crash (1122367)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - Kerberos authentication did not work with alias (1108971)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - SVG / CSS animation had a regression causing rendering issues on websites like openstreemap.org (1083079)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - On Godaddy webmail, Firefox could crash (1113121)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - document.baseURI did not get updated to document.location after base tag was removed from DOM for site with a CSP (1121857)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - With a Right-to-left (RTL) version of Firefox, the text selection could be broken (1104036)
  
  
• FIXED
  35.0.1 - CSP had a change in behavior with regard to case sensitivity resources loading (1122445)
  
  
• NEW
  Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model
  
  
• NEW
  New search UI improved and enabled for more locales
  
  
• NEW
  Access the Firefox Marketplace from the Tools menu and optional toolbar button
  
  
• NEW
  Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs
  
  
• NEW
  Improved handling of dynamic styling changes to increase responsiveness
  
  
• NEW
  Use tiled rendering on OS X
  
  
• NEW
  Improved high quality image resizing performance
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'let' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification
  
  
• HTML5
  Resource Timing API implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS filters enabled by default
  
  
• HTML5
  Added support for the CSS Font Loading API
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Computed view: Nodes matching the hovered selector are now highlighted
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Network Monitor: New request/response headers view (more info)
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Added support for the EXT_blend_minmax WebGL extension
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  
  
• FIXED
  Show DOM Properties context menu item in inspector
  
  
• FIXED
  Reduced resource usage for scaled images
  
  
• FIXED
  PDF.js updated to version 1.0.907
  
  
• FIXED
  Non-HTTP(S) XHR now returns correct status code
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  WebGL games might not display some textures (see bug 1113633)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Sometimes images don't display when hovered over (seebug 1083113)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Issues affecting RTL in Hello can be found here

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 36.0 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• NEW
  
  Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced
  
  
• NEW
  Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
  
  
• NEW
  Locale added: Uzbek (uz)
  
  
• CHANGED
  -remote option removed
  
  
• CHANGED
  No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible
  
  
• CHANGED
  Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
  
  
• CHANGED
  Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program
  
  
• CHANGED
  Add-on Compatibility
  
  
• HTML5
  Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added
  
  
• HTML5
  unicode-range CSS descriptor implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSSOM-View scroll behavior implemented allowing smooth scrolling of content without custom libraries
  
  
• HTML5
  object-fit and object-position implemented.
  Defines how and where the content of a replaced element is displayed
  
  
• HTML5
  isolation CSS property implemented.
  Create a new stacking context to isolate groups of boxes to control which blend together
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS3 will-change property implemented.
  Hints the browser of elements that will be modified. The browser will perform some performance optimization for these
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'const' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification.
  The const declaration is now block-scoped and requires an initializer. It also can not be redeclared anymore.
  
  
• HTML5
  Improved ES6 generators for better performance
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Eval sources now appear in the Debugger
  Debug JavaScript code that is evaluated dynamically, either as a string passed to eval() or as a string passed to the Function constructor
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  DOM Promises inspection
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Inspector: More paste options in markup view
  
  
• FIXED
  CSS gradients work on premultiplied colors
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Style Editor: Extra white space appearing above the editor for a sourcemapped scss file (1128747)

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 36.0.1 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• FIXED
  
  36.0.1 - Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type (1093983)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fixed a startup crash with EMET (1137050)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello may become inactive until restart (1137469)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Print preferences may not be preserved (1136855)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello contact tabs may not be visible (1137141)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Accept hostnames that include an underscore character ("_") (1136616)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d (1137251)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Option -remote has been restored (1080319)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fix a top crash
  
  
• NEW
  Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced
  
  
• NEW
  Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
  
  
• NEW
  Locale added: Uzbek (uz)
  
  
• CHANGED
  -remote option removed
  
  
• CHANGED
  No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible
  
  
• CHANGED
  Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
  
  
• CHANGED
  Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program
  
  
• CHANGED
  Add-on Compatibility
  
  
• HTML5
  Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added
  
  
• HTML5
  unicode-range CSS descriptor implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSSOM-View scroll behavior implemented allowing smooth scrolling of content without custom libraries
  
  
• HTML5
  object-fit and object-position implemented.
  Defines how and where the content of a replaced element is displayed
  
  
• HTML5
  isolation CSS property implemented.
  Create a new stacking context to isolate groups of boxes to control which blend together
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS3 will-change property implemented.
  Hints the browser of elements that will be modified. The browser will perform some performance optimization for these
  
  
• HTML5
  Improved ES6 generators for better performance
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'const' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification.
  The const declaration is now block-scoped and requires an initializer. It also can not be redeclared anymore.
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Eval sources now appear in the Debugger
  Debug JavaScript code that is evaluated dynamically, either as a string passed to eval() or as a string passed to the Function constructor
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  DOM Promises inspection
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Inspector: More paste options in markup view
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  
  
• FIXED
  CSS gradients work on premultiplied colors
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Style Editor: Extra white space appearing above the editor for a sourcemapped scss file (1128747)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  For users who removed the Share & Hello buttons, this new version brings them back unexpectedly (1136300)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Firefox Hello does not work for link generators if there is no camera installed (1106941)

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 36.0.3 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• FIXED
  
  36.0.3: Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest
  
  
• NEW
  Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced
  
  
• NEW
  Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
  
  
• NEW
  Locale added: Uzbek (uz)
  
  
• CHANGED
  -remote option removed
  
  
• CHANGED
  No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible
  
  
• CHANGED
  Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
  
  
• CHANGED
  Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program
  
  
• CHANGED
  Add-on Compatibility
  
  
• HTML5
  Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added
  
  
• HTML5
  unicode-range CSS descriptor implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSSOM-View scroll behavior implemented allowing smooth scrolling of content without custom libraries
  
  
• HTML5
  object-fit and object-position implemented.
  Defines how and where the content of a replaced element is displayed
  
  
• HTML5
  isolation CSS property implemented.
  Create a new stacking context to isolate groups of boxes to control which blend together
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS3 will-change property implemented.
  Hints the browser of elements that will be modified. The browser will perform some performance optimization for these
  
  
• HTML5
  Improved ES6 generators for better performance
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'const' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification.
  The const declaration is now block-scoped and requires an initializer. It also can not be redeclared anymore.
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Eval sources now appear in the Debugger
  Debug JavaScript code that is evaluated dynamically, either as a string passed to eval() or as a string passed to the Function constructor
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  DOM Promises inspection
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Inspector: More paste options in markup view
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello may become inactive until restart (1137469)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Print preferences may not be preserved (1136855)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello contact tabs may not be visible (1137141)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type (1093983)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fixed a startup crash with EMET (1137050)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d (1137251)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Accept hostnames that include an underscore character ("_") (1136616)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Option -remote has been restored (1080319)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fix a top crash
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  
  
• FIXED
  CSS gradients work on premultiplied colors
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Style Editor: Extra white space appearing above the editor for a sourcemapped scss file (1128747)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  For users who removed the Share & Hello buttons, this new version brings them back unexpectedly (1136300)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Firefox Hello does not work for link generators if there is no camera installed (1106941)

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 36.0.4 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• FIXED
  
  36.0.4: Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest
  
  
• NEW
  Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced
  
  
• NEW
  Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
  
  
• NEW
  Locale added: Uzbek (uz)
  
  
• CHANGED
  No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible
  
  
• CHANGED
  Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
  
  
• CHANGED
  Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program
  
  
• CHANGED
  Add-on Compatibility
  
  
• HTML5
  Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added
  
  
• HTML5
  unicode-range CSS descriptor implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  CSSOM-View scroll behavior implemented allowing smooth scrolling of content without custom libraries
  
  
• HTML5
  object-fit and object-position implemented.
  Defines how and where the content of a replaced element is displayed
  
  
• HTML5
  isolation CSS property implemented.
  Create a new stacking context to isolate groups of boxes to control which blend together
  
  
• HTML5
  CSS3 will-change property implemented.
  Hints the browser of elements that will be modified. The browser will perform some performance optimization for these
  
  
• HTML5
  Improved ES6 generators for better performance
  
  
• HTML5
  Changed JavaScript 'const' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification.
  The const declaration is now block-scoped and requires an initializer. It also can not be redeclared anymore.
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Eval sources now appear in the Debugger
  Debug JavaScript code that is evaluated dynamically, either as a string passed to eval() or as a string passed to the Function constructor
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  DOM Promises inspection
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Inspector: More paste options in markup view
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.3: Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative's Pwn2Own contest
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello may become inactive until restart (1137469)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Print preferences may not be preserved (1136855)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Hello contact tabs may not be visible (1137141)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type (1093983)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fixed a startup crash with EMET (1137050)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d (1137251)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Accept hostnames that include an underscore character ("_") (1136616)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Option -remote has been restored (1080319)
  
  
• FIXED
  36.0.1 - Fix a top crash
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes
  
  
• FIXED
  CSS gradients work on premultiplied colors
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Style Editor: Extra white space appearing above the editor for a sourcemapped scss file (1128747)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  For users who removed the Share & Hello buttons, this new version brings them back unexpectedly (1136300)
  
  
• UNRESOLVED
  Firefox Hello does not work for link generators if there is no camera installed (1106941)

 

[Trouble]

New version 37 available https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

 

[kemical]

Changelog for Version 37.0

What’s New

• NEW
  Heartbeat user rating system - your feedback about Firefox
  
  
• NEW
  Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale
  
  
• NEW
  Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching
  
  
• NEW
  Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation
  
  
• NEW
  Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP/2 AltSvc
  
  
• CHANGED
  Disabled insecure TLS version fallback for site security
  
  
• CHANGED
  Extended SSL error reporting for reporting non-certificate errors
  
  
• CHANGED
  TLS False Start optimization now requires a cipher suite using AEAD construction
  
  
• CHANGED
  Improved certificate and TLS communication security by removing support for DSA
  
  
• CHANGED
  Improved performance of WebGL rendering on Windows
  
  
• HTML5
  Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube (Windows Vista or later only)
  
  
• HTML5
  Added support for CSS display:contents
  
  
• HTML5
  IndexedDB now accessible from worker threads
  
  
• HTML5
  New SDP/JSEP implementation in WebRTC
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Debug tabs opened in Chrome Desktop, Chrome for Android, and Safari for iOS
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  New Inspector animations panel to control element animations
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  New Security Panel included in Network Panel
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Debugger panel support for chrome:// and about:// URIs
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Added logging of weak ciphers to the web console
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

ref:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/37.0/releasenotes/

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 37.0.1 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• Reference: Release notes for Firefox 37.0
  
  
• CHANGED
  Disabled HTTP/2 AltSvc
  
  
• FIXED
  Start-up crash due to graphics hardware and third party software
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 37.0.2 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• Reference: Release notes for Firefox 37.0.1
  
  
• FIXED
  Google Maps may render incorrectly in some cases
  
  
• FIXED
  Stability fixes for select graphics hardware and feature sets
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 38.0 of the Firefox browser.

Firefox Notes
Version 38.0, first offered to Release channel users on May 12, 2015
What’s New

• NEW
  New tab-based preferences
  
  
• NEW
  Ruby annotation support
  
  
• NEW
  Base for the next ESR release.
  
  
• CHANGED
  autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields
  
  
• CHANGED
  URL parser avoids doing percent encoding when setting the Fragment part of the URL, and percent decoding when getting the Fragment in line with the URL spec
  
  
• CHANGED
  RegExp.prototype.source now returns "(?" instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions
  
  
• CHANGED
  Improved page load times via speculative connection warmup
  
  
• HTML5
  WebSocket now available in Web Workers
  
  
• HTML5
  BroadcastChannel API implemented
  
  
• HTML5
  Implemented srcset attribute and <picture> element for responsive images
  
  
• HTML5
  Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code
  
  
• HTML5
  Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube
  
  
• HTML5
  Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback (Windows Vista or later only)
  
  
• HTML5
  Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME (Windows Vista or later only)
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  copy command added to console
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 38.0.1 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• 
  
  Reference: Release notes for Firefox 38.0
  
• FIXED
  Systems with first generation NVidia Optimus graphics cards may crash on start-up
  
  
• FIXED
  Users who import cookies from Google Chrome can end up with broken websites
  
  
• FIXED
  WebRTC H264 video streams from CiscoSpark native clients are not decoded correctly. (Fixed in Firefox ESR 38.0.1; was already fixed in Firefox 38.0)
  
  
• FIXED
  Large animated images may fail to play and may stop other images from loading
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Responsive images do not update when the enclosing viewport changes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 38.0.5 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• 
  
  Reference: Release notes for Firefox 38.0.1
  
• NEW
  Keep track of articles and videos with Pocket
  
  
• NEW
  Clean formatting for articles and blog posts with Reader View
  
  
• NEW
  Share the active tab or window in a Hello conversation
  
  
• FIXED
  A race condition that would cause Firefox to stop painting when switching tabs (bug 1067470)
  
  
• FIXED
  Fixed graphics performance when using the built-in VGA driver on Windows 7 (Bug 1165732)
  

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  Responsive images do not update when the enclosing viewport changes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 39.0 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• NEW
  Share Hello URLs with social networks
  
  
• NEW
  Project Silk: Smoother animation and scrolling (Mac OS X)
  
  
• NEW
  Support for 'switch' role in ARIA 1.1 (web accessibility)
  
  
• NEW
  SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups enabled for downloads (Mac OS X and Linux)
  
  
• NEW
  Support for new Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji
  
  
• CHANGED
  Removed support for insecure SSLv3 for network communications
  
  
• CHANGED
  Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts
  
  
• CHANGED
  The malware detection service for downloads now covers common Mac file types (Bug 1138721)
  
  
• CHANGED
  Performance of displaying dashed lines is improved (Mac OS X) (Bug 1123019)
  
  
• HTML5
  List-style-type now accepts a string value
  
  
• HTML5
  Enable the Fetch API for network requests from dedicated, shared and service workers
  
  
• HTML5
  Cascading of CSS transitions and animations now matches the current spec
  
  
• HTML5
  Implement <link rel="preconnect">allowing anticipation of a future connection without revealing any information
  
  
• HTML5
  Added support for CSS Scroll Snap Points
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Drag and drop enabled for nodes in Inspector markup view
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Webconsole input history persists even after closing the toolbox
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Cubic bezier tooltip now shows a gallery of timing-function presets for use with CSS animations
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  localhost is now available offline for WebSocket connections
  
  
• FIXED
  Improve performance for IPv6 fallback to IPv4
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers
  
  
• FIXED
  The Security state indicator on a page now correctly ignores loads caused by previous pages
  
  
• FIXED
  Fixed an issue where a Hello conversation window would sometimes fail to open
  
  
• FIXED
  A regression that could lead to Flash not displaying has been fixed
  
  
• FIXED
  Update to NSS 3.19.2
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 39.0.3 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• Reference: Release notes for Firefox 39.0
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 40.0 of the Firefox browser.

Firefox Notes
Version 40.0, first offered to Release channel users on August 11, 2015


Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla. If interested, please see the complete list of changes in this release.

We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!



What’s New

• NEW
  Support for Windows 10
  
  
• NEW
  Added protection against unwanted software downloads
  
  
• NEW
  User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).
  
  
• NEW
  Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about
  
  
• NEW
  New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style
  
  
• NEW
  Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
  
  
• NEW
  Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be specified, limiting the number of devices blocked
  
  
• CHANGED
  Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla willdisplay a warning
  
  
• CHANGED
  NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
  
  
• CHANGED
  Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync(Windows only)
  
  
• CHANGED
  JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
  
  
• CHANGED
  Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
  
  
• HTML5
  IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
  
  
• HTML5
  Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Improved Performance tools in the developer tools:Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
  
  
• DEVELOPER
  Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
  
  
• FIXED
  Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes

Known Issues

• UNRESOLVED
  If Firefox is restarted from an add-on install notification, on-going private browsing downloads might be canceled without warning (1185294)

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 40.0.2 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• Reference: Release notes for Firefox 40.0
  
  
• NEW
  Enabled API allowing Windows 10 users to open settings dialog (1193196)
  
  
• FIXED
  mozalloc.lib was missing from the xulrunner package (1168291)
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix a startup crash with some combination of hardware and drivers (1160295)

 

[kemical]

Mozilla has released Version 40.0.3 of the Firefox browser.

What’s New

• Reference: Release notes for Firefox 40.0.2
  
  
• CHANGED
  Disable the asynchronous plugin initialization (1198590)
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix a segmentation fault in the GStreamer support (GNU/Linux) (1145230)
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix a startup crash when using DisplayLink (Windows Only) (1195844)
  
  
• FIXED
  Fix a regression with some Japanese fonts used in the <input> field (1194055)
  
  
• FIXED
  On some sites, the selection in a select combox box using the mouse could be broken (1194733)
  
  
• FIXED
  Some search partner codes were missing (1195683)
  
  
• FIXED
  Various security fixes