Nouvelle version pour Mozilla Firefox. Pour cette version 47.0, le navigateur de se voit complété par de grosses nouveautés (il en faut de temps en temps) comme l'activation du codec VP9 de Google pour les machines récentes, Youtube qui se sert d'HTML5 si Flash n'est pas installé, les rapports de performances du navigateur en temps réel sans oublier les changements importants liés aux extensions qui doivent être obligatoirement signés désormais...
Voici la liste complète des modifications par rapport à la version précédente :
Fixed
- Selenium WebDriver may cause Firefox to crash at startup
New
- Support for Google’s Widevine CDM on Windows and Mac OS X so streaming services like Amazon Video can switch from Silverlight to encrypted HTML5 video.
- Enable VP9 video codec for users with fast machines
- Embedded YouTube videos now play with HTML5 video if Flash is not installed.
- View and search open tabs from your smartphone or another computer in a sidebar
- Allow no-cache on back/forward navigations for https resources
- Latgalu [ltg] locale added. Wikipedia tells us there are 164,500 daily speakers.
Fixed
- Various security fixes
Changed
- FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) has been removed. Add-ons relying on it will stop working.
- The browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand preference has been reset to its default value (true) to avoid e10s performance problems. Because faster is better!
- The Firefox click-to-activate plugin whitelist has been removed.
Developer
- Web platform changes
- View, start,and debug registered Service Workers in the Service Workers developer tool
- Simulate Push messages in the Service Workers developer tool
- 'Start' button for service workers in about:debugging to start registered Service Workers
- Changes that can affect add-on compatibility
- Added support for ChaCha20/Poly1305 cipher suites
- Custom user agents supported in Responsive Design Mode
- Smart multi-line input in the Web Console
- Developer Information
HTML5
- cuechange events are now available on TextTrack objects
- WebCrypto: PBKDF2 supports SHA-2 hash algorithms
- WebCrypto: RSA-PSS signature support