Mozilla Firefox 40.0.3

C'est légèrement en avance sur l'horaire de sortie que la nouvelle version du navigateur vient d'être libérée au téléchargement (direct). Avec cette version 40.0, Mozilla s'assure du support de Windows 10 avec un thème légèrement remanié.

Voici la liste complète des modifications par rapport à la version précédente :

• New Support for Windows 10
• New Added protection against unwanted software downloads
• New Suggested Tiles show sites of interest, based on categories from your recent browsing history
• New Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about
• New New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style
• New Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
• New Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be specified, limiting the number of devices blocked

• Changed Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a warning
• Changed Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)
• Changed JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
• Changed Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
• Changed NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
• HTML5 IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
• HTML5 Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals
• Developer Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
• Developer Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
• Developer Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
• Developer New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
• Developer New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
• Fixed Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
• Fixed Various security fixes

Firefox 40.0.1 :

• New Enabled API allowing Windows 10 users to open settings dialog
• Fixed mozalloc.lib was missing from the xulrunner package (1168291)

Firefox 40.0.2 :

• Fixed Fix a startup crash with some combination of hardware and drivers (1160295)

Firefox 40.0.3 :

• Changed Disable the asynchronous plugin initialization (1198590)
• Fixed Fix a segmentation fault in the GStreamer support (GNU/Linux) (1145230)
• Fixed Fix a startup crash when using DisplayLink (Windows Only) (1195844)
• Fixed Fix a regression with some Japanese fonts used in the <input> field (1194055)
• Fixed On some sites, the selection in a select combox box using the mouse could be broken (1194733)
• Fixed Some search partner codes were missing (1195683)
• Fixed Various security fixes

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