Mozilla has released Version 41.0 of the Firefox browser
Firefox Notes
Version 41.0, first offered to Release channel users on September 22, 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
Enhance IME support on Windows (Vista +) using TSF (Text Services Framework)
- NEW
Ability to set a profile picture for your Firefox Account
- NEW
Firefox Hello now includes instant messaging
- NEW
SVG images can be used as favicons
- NEW
Improved box-shadow rendering performance
- CHANGED
WebRTC now requires perfect forward secrecy
- CHANGED
WARP is disabled on Windows 7
- CHANGED
Updates to image decoding process
- CHANGED
Support for running animations of 'transform' and 'opacity' on the compositor thread
- HTML5
MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default
- HTML5
Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements
- HTML5
CSS Font Loading API enabled by default
- HTML5
Navigator.onLine now varies with actual internet connectivity (Windows and Mac OS X only)
- HTML5
Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript to the OS clipboard with document.execCommand("cut"/"copy")
- HTML5
Implemented Cache API for querying named caches that are accessible Window, Worker, and ServiceWorker
- DEVELOPER
Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK "system/child_process" pipe mechanism for native binaries instead
- DEVELOPER
Network requests can be exported in HAR format
- DEVELOPER
Quickly add new CSS rule with New Rule button in the Inspector
- DEVELOPER
Screenshot a node or element from markup view with the Screenshot Node context menu item
- DEVELOPER
Copy element CSS rule declarations with the Copy Rule Declaration context menu item in the Inspector
- DEVELOPER
Pseudo-Class panel in the Inspector
- FIXED
Picture element does not react to resize/viewport changes
- FIXED
Various security fixes