Versie 34.0 is uitgekomen van Waterfox. Waterfox is een 64bit-versie van de webbrowser Firefox, iets dat Mozilla wel al lang in ontwikkeling heeft, maar nog nooit een stabiele versie van heeft uitgebracht. Het project is in maart 2011 gestart door de toentertijd 16-jarige Alex Kontos. Waterfox is een van de snelste browsers beschikbaar en op de website staan verschillende benchmarks die dat onderbouwen. De browser is alleen verkrijgbaar voor Windows en OS X en door middel van het toevoegen van een taalbestand is het ook in het Nederlands te gebruiken. De release notes voor versie 34.0 kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Why isn't Waterfox on 34.0.5?!
Firefox 34.0.5 is no different from 34.0, apart from making Yahoo! the default search engine for en-US users in the US. Waterfox uses StartPage as its default search engine therefore this increase in version is not necessary.
What's new in Waterfox?This should result in less memory leaks and greater security
- Waterfox now uses tcmalloc (the memory allocator used by Google Chrome)
What's new in Firefox?
- Freezing gifs no longer occur on certain system configurations
- Updated the logo on Windows builds to be in line with the Mac OS X builds
- Firefox Hello real-time communication client
- Easily switch themes/personas directly in the Customizing mode
- Implementation of HTTP/2 (draft14) and ALPN
- Recover from a locked Firefox process in the "Firefox is already running" dialog on Windows
- Disabled SSLv3
- Proprietary window.crypto properties/functions re-enabled (to be removed in Firefox 35)
- Firefox signed by Apple OS X version 2 signature
- ECMAScript 6 WeakSet Implemented
- JavaScript Template Strings Implemented
- CSS3 Font variants and features control (e.g. kerning) implemented
- WebCrypto: RSA-OAEP, PBKDF2 and AES-KW support
- WebCrypto: wrapKey and unwrapKey implemented
- WebCrypto: Import/export of JWK-formatted keys
- matches() DOM API implemented (formerly mozMatchesSelector())
- Performance.now() for workers implemented
- WebCrypto: ECDH support
- WebIDE: Create, edit, and test a new Web application from your browser
- Highlight all nodes that match a given selector in the Style Editor and the Inspector's Rules panel
- Improved User Interface of the Profiler
- console.table function added to web console
- CSS transitions start correctly when started at the same time as changes to display, position, overflow, and similar properties
- Various security fixes
- Fullscreen video on Mac disables display sleep, and dimming, during playback
- Various Yosemite visual fixes
