Une nouvelle version du navigateur Firefox vient fraîchement de sortir. Chose importante à noter, cette version 59.0 n'est pas une ESR comme Mozilla a l'habitude de faire toutes les 7 versions (la dernière en date est la ESR 52.7.0), il faudra attendre que la version 60.0 pointe le bout de son nez pour pouvoir dire adieu de manière officielle aux anciennes extensions ainsi qu'au support de Windows XP et Vista. Néanmoins, la ESR 52 ira tout de même jusqu'à la .9 avant qu'elle ne soit mise de côté.
Dans cette version 59.0, la fondation aura particulièrement travaillé sur les performances du navigateur sans oublier quelques petits ajouts bienvenus dans diverses parties (screenshots, Webextensions, specifications W3C, etc...).
Voici la liste complète des modifications par rapport à la version précédente :
Fixed
- Fix for compatibility with Windows 10 April 2018 update (Bug 1452619)
Fixed
- Invalid page rendering with hardware acceleration enabled (Bug 1435472)
- Windows 7 users with touch screens or certain 3rd party desktop applications which interact with Firefox through accessibility services may experience random browser crashes. Known 3rd party applicatioins with issues: StickyPassword, Windows 7 touch screen. (Bug 1424505)
- Browser keyboard shortcuts (eg copy Ctrl+C) don't work on sites that use those keys with resistFingerprinting enabled (Bug 1433592)
- High CPU / memory churn caused by third-party software on some computers (Bug 1446280)
- Users who have configured an "automatic proxy configuration URL" and want to reload their proxy settings from the URL will find the Reload button disabled in the Connection Settings dialog when they select Preferences/Options > Network Proxy > Settings... (Bug 1445991)
- URL Fragment Identifiers Break Service Worker Responses (Bug 1443850)
- User's trying to cancel a print around the time it completes will continue to get intermittent crashes (Bug 1441598)
- Broken getUserMedia (audio) on DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Video chat apps either wouldn't work or be always muted (Bug 1444074)
- Various security fixes
New
- Performance enhancements:
- Faster load times for content on the Firefox Home page
- Faster page load times by loading either from the networked cache or the cache on the user’s hard drive (Race Cache With Network)
- Improved graphics rendering using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP) for Mac users (OMTP for Windows and Linux was released in Firefox 58) - Drag-and-drop to rearrange Top Sites on the Firefox Home page, and customize new windows and tabs in other ways.
- Added features for Firefox Screenshots:
- Basic annotation lets the user draw on and highlight saved screenshots
- Recropping to change the viewable area of saved screenshots - Enhanced WebExtensions API including better support for decentralized protocols and the ability to dynamically register content scripts
- Improved Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities.
- Implemented RTP Transceiver to give pages more fine grained control over calls
- Implemented features to support large scale conferences - Added support for W3C specs for pointer events and improved platform integration with added device support for mouse, pen, and touch screen pointer input
- Added the Ecosia search engine as an option for German Firefox
- Added the Qwant search engine as an option for French Firefox
- Added new permissions settings in about:preferences that provide controls to stop intrusive websites from offering notifications or accessing advanced device features such as camera and geolocation, while still allowing trusted websites to use these features
Fixed
- Various security fixes
Changed
- Firefox Private Browsing Mode will remove path information from referrers to prevent cross-site tracking