* 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:
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)
* 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:
* 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)
XXX Set MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no for now. Should investigate why it fails
without it as it prolongs build time significantly.
Upstream changes:
Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
Added Twitter to the search bar for select locales. Additional locale support
will be added in the future
Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when
windows are restored
Improved performance and memory handling when using <audio> and <video>
elements
Added CORS support for cross-domain textures in WebGL
Added support for HTML5 context menus
Added support for insertAdjacentHTML
Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
Improved WebSocket support
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues
Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
The 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default
Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
Added support for the Web Timing specification
Enhanced support for MathML
The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla
to improve future versions of Firefox
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues
Major changes include:
The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting
Streamlined the look of the site identity block
Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
Added support for window.matchMedia
Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
Improved usability of the Web Console
Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues
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.
MFSA 2010-84 XSS hazard in multiple character encodings
MFSA 2010-83 Location bar SSL spoofing using network error page
MFSA 2010-82 Incomplete fix for CVE-2010-0179
MFSA 2010-81 Integer overflow vulnerability in NewIdArray
MFSA 2010-80 Use-after-free error with nsDOMAttribute MutationObserver
MFSA 2010-79 Java security bypass from LiveConnect loaded via data: URL meta
refresh
MFSA 2010-78 Add support for OTS font sanitizer
MFSA 2010-77 Crash and remote code execution using HTML tags inside a XUL tree
MFSA 2010-76 Chrome privilege escalation with window.open and <isindex> element
MFSA 2010-75 Buffer overflow while line breaking after document.write with
long string
MFSA 2010-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.13/ 1.9.1.16)
MFSA 2010-33 User tracking across sites using Math.random()
MFSA 2010-32 Content-Disposition: attachment ignored
if Content-Type: multipart also present
MFSA 2010-31 focus() behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes
MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting
MFSA 2010-29 Heap buffer overflow in nsGenericDOMDataNode::SetTextInternal
MFSA 2010-28 Freed object reuse across plugin instances
MFSA 2010-26 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
