Firefox Notes
First offered to Release channel users on June 10, 2014
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Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged totell us what you think, orfile a bug in Bugzilla. If interested, please see thecomplete list of changes in this release.
We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of thenew Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
What’s New
- New
Sidebars button in browser chrome enables faster access to social, bookmark, & history sidebars
- New
Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text
- Changed
Disallow calling WebIDL constructors as functions on the web
- Changed
With the exception of those bundled inside an extension or ones that arewhitelisted, plugins will no longer be activated by default (seeblog post)
- Developer
Support for GStreamer 1.0 (see806917 for build configuration)
- Developer
Fixes to box-shadow and other visual overflow (seebug 480888)
- Developer
Mute and volume available per window when using WebAudio
- Developer
background-blend-mode enabled by default
- Developer
Use of line-height allowed for <input type="reset|button|submit">
- Developer
ES6 array and generator comprehensions implemented (readdocs for more details)
- Developer
Error stack now contains column number
- Developer
Support for alpha option in canvas context options (featuredescription)
- Fixed
Insecure NTLM (pre-NTLMv2) authentication disabled (see828183)
- Fixed
Ignore autocomplete="off" when offering to save passwords via the password manager (see956906)
- Fixed
TypedArrays don't support new named properties (see695438)
- Fixed
Varioussecurity fixes
Known Issues
- unresolved
Errors loading scripts inside eval scripts with Developer Tools open (998908)
- unresolved
Mac OS X: cmd-L no longer opens a new window when no window is available (1008793)
- unresolved
Without affecting security, after restoring your session, Extended Validation Certificates might not display (See995801)
- unresolved
Slow shut downs lead to 'Firefox is already running' warning (see966469 and985655)
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