Mozilla heeft versie 40 van zijn webbrowser Firefox uitgebracht. In versie 40 is onder meer ondersteuning voor Windows 10 toegevoegd, worden nu ook downloads op Windows gecontroleerd op malware en wordt er een waarschuwing getoond wanneer een extensie niet is voorzien van een handtekening van Mozilla. Hieronder staat het complete overzicht van de verbeteringen die in versie 40 zijn aangebracht:
NewChanged
- Support for Windows 10
- Added protection against unwanted software downloads
- User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).
- 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
HTML5
- Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a warning
- NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
- 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
Developer
- 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
Fixed
- Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
- New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
- Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
- New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
- Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
Known Issues
- Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
- 2015-92 Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers
- 2015-91 Mozilla Content Security Policy allows for asterisk wildcards in violation of CSP specification
- 2015-90 Vulnerabilities found through code inspection
- 2015-89 Buffer overflows on Libvpx when decoding WebM video
- 2015-88 Heap overflow in gdk-pixbuf when scaling bitmap images
- 2015-87 Crash when using shared memory in JavaScript
- 2015-85 Out-of-bounds write with Updater and malicious MAR file
- 2015-83 Overflow issues in libstagefright
- 2015-82 Redefinition of non-configurable JavaScript object properties
- 2015-81 Use-after-free in MediaStream playback
- 2015-80 Out-of-bounds read with malformed MP3 file
- 2015-79 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:40.0 / rv:38.2)
- If Firefox is restarted from an add-on install notification, on-going private browsing downloads might be canceled without warning (1185294)
De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Windows (Nederlands)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Linux (Nederlands)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor OS X (Nederlands)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Windows (Engels)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Linux (Engels)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor OS X (Engels)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Windows (Fries)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor Linux (Fries)Mozilla Firefox 40.0 voor OS X (Fries)
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