Mozilla Firefox v40.0 released
AUG 10 2015Release Notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/4 ... easenotes/Whats New
• Support for Windows 10
• Added protection against unwanted software downloads
• Suggested Tiles show sites of interest, based on categories from your recent browsing history
• Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about
• New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style
• Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
• 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 will display a warning
• Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)
• JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
• Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
• NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
HTML5
• IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
• 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
• Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
• Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
• New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
• New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
Fixed
• Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
Known Issues• If Firefox is restarted from an add-on install notification, on-going private browsing downloads might be canceled without warning (1185294)
Download: Firefox 40.0 for Windows |
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