* Add --enable-pulseaudio configure option (functionality is not tested)
Changelog:
NEW
First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
NEW
Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user's permission (see blog post)
CHANGED
Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
CHANGED
Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported
DEVELOPER
JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
DEVELOPER
SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint implemented
DEVELOPER
Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
DEVELOPER
New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
HTML5
Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
FIXED
Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
FIXED
Pointer lock doesn't work in web apps (769150)
FIXED
Page scrolling on sites with fixed headers (780345)
Changelog:
* Page Source now has line numbers
* Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute
* Improvements to "Find in Page" to center search result
* URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded
* Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added
* Various security fixes
* Some TinyMCE-based editors failed to load (739141)
Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features
JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous
version, new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as
hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely
revised user interface.
.2 is not formally released yet, but is release tagged in the scm and I
want to get this update in before we freeze the tree.
"Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform,
which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many
improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users."
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness,
and startup time.
- The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run
asynchronously to speed up page load times.
- Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
- Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing,
and pointer events.
- Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API
and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
XULRunner is a runtime environment for applications using the
XML User Interface Language, XUL. It is the successor of the "Gecko"
runtime environment.
