Changelog:
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)
* Many patches are included into upstream distribution.
I have tested on NetBSD/amd64 6.99.16, I will test on other platforms later.
Changelog: from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0/releasenotes/
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)
* 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)
www/firefox is also updated to 16.0.2.
Changelog:
FIXED
16.0.2: Security fixes can be found here
Fixed in Firefox 16.0.2
MFSA 2012-90 Fixes for Location object issues
Changelog:
FIXED
16.0.1: Vulnerability outlined here
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/10/10/security-vulnerability-in-firefox-16/
NEW
Firefox on Mac OS X now has preliminary VoiceOver support turned on by default
NEW
Initial web app support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
NEW
Acholi and Kazakh localizations added
CHANGED
Improvements around JavaScript responsiveness through incremental garbage collection
DEVELOPER
New Developer Toolbar with buttons for quick access to tools, error count for the Web Console, and a new command line for quick keyboard access
DEVELOPER
CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16
DEVELOPER
Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
FIXED
16.0.1: Vulnerability outlined here
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/10/10/security-vulnerability-in-firefox-16/
FIXED
Debugger breakpoints do not catch on page reload (783393)
FIXED
No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures (650355)
FIXED
Opus support by default (772341)
FIXED
Reverse animation direction has been implemented (655920)
FIXED
Per tab reporting in about:memory (687724)
FIXED
User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version (728831)
Changelog:
FIXED Sites visited while in Private Browsing mode could be found through manual browser cache inspection (787743)
NEW Silent, background updates
NEW Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
NEW WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance
NEW Localization in Maithili (see all available locales)
CHANGED Optimized memory usage for add-ons
DEVELOPER JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
DEVELOPER New layout view added to Inspector
DEVELOPER High precision event timer implemented
DEVELOPER The CSS word-break property has been implemented.
DEVELOPER New responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
HTML5 Native support for the Opus audio codec added
HTML5 The <audio> and <video> elements now support the played attribute
HTML5 The <source> element now supports the media attribute
FIXED Focus rings keep growing when repeatedly tabbing through elements (720987)
installed at build time it will attempt to download it instead, so the
problem is stealthy in a networked environment, and obvious in an
offline environment.
Add it as a build dependency.
* Use patches from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753046
* Fix firefox.sh
Changelog:
NEW Preliminary native PDF support (Aurora/Beta only)
NEW Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
NEW WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance
CHANGED Optimized memory usage for add-ons
DEVELOPER JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
DEVELOPER New layout view added to Inspector
DEVELOPER The CSS word-break property has been implemented.
DEVELOPER High precision event timer implemented
DEVELOPER New responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
HTML5 Native support for the Opus audio codec added
HTML5 The <source> element now supports the media attribute
HTML5 The <audio> and <video> elements now support the played attribute
Changelog:
NEW
Google searches now utilize HTTPS
NEW
Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented
NEW
Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (requires an about:config change)
NEW
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
CHANGED
Improved site identity manager, to prevent spoofing of an SSL connection with favicons
DEVELOPER
Pointer Lock API implemented
DEVELOPER
New API to prevent your display from sleeping
DEVELOPER
New text-transform and font-variant CSS improvements for Turkic languages and Greek
FIXED
Various security fixes
FIXED
GIF animation can gets stuck when src and image size are changed (743598)
FIXED
OS X: nsCocoaWindow::ConstrainPosition uses wrong screen in multi-display setup (752149)
FIXED
CSS :hover regression when an element's class name is set by Javascript (758885
Changelog:
* When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages
* General performance improvements through incremental JavaScript garbage collection
* The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites
* Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup
* Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default
* 72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
* The column-fill CSS property has been implemented
* Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
* Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
* The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to the element
* The CSS turn <angle> unit is now supported
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)
implementation in MirBSD enforces this.
Use ${MKDIR} to create the target directory before running pax.
Unbreaks things like firefox-l10n and friends on MirBSD.
