Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfix. A notable new feature is an improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections.

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 changelog

New

  • Improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections
  • Enable H.264 if system decoder is available
  • Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don’t support MP4/H.264
  • In the animation-inspector timeline, lightning bolt icon next to animations running on the compositor thread
  • Support the brotli compression format via HTTPS content-encoding
  • Screenshot commands allow user choice of pixel ratio in Developer Tools

Fixed

  • Windows XP and Vista screensaver doesn’t disable when watching videos
  • Various security fixes

Changed

  • To support unicode-range descriptor for webfonts, font matching under Linux now uses the same font matching code as other platforms
  • Use a SHA-256 signing certificate for Windows builds, to meet new signing requirements
  • Firefox has removed support for the RC4 decipher
  • Firefox will no longer trust the Equifax Secure Certificate Authority 1024-bit root certificate or the UTN – DATACorp SGC to validate secure website certificates
  • Stricter validation of web fonts
  • On-screen keyboard support temporarily turned off for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1

Developer

  • Right click on a logged object in the console to store it as a global variable on the page
  • Visual tools for Animation:
    • View/Edit CSS animation keyframe rules directly in the inspector
    • Visually modify the cubic-bezier curve that drives the way animations progress through time
    • Discover and scrub through all CSS animations and transitions playing on the page
    • Learn more: http://devtoolschallenger.com/
  • Visual tools for Layout and Styles:
    • Display rulers along the viewport to verify size and position and use the measurement tool to easily detect spacing and alignment problems
    • Use CSS filters to preview and create real-time effects like drop-shadows, sepia, etc
    • Learn more: http://devtoolschallenger.com/
  • New memory tool for inspecting the memory heap
  • Service Workers API
  • Built-in JSON reader to intuitively view, search, copy and save data without extensions
  • Jump to function definitions in the debugger with Cmd-Click
  • WebSocket Debugging API and add-on
  • The rule view now displays styles using their authored text, and edits in the rule view are now linked to the style editor

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