Batu69 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Firefox 47 also features improved video support Mozilla launched today Firefox 47, complete with loads of new features such as synced tabs, support for custom user agent strings, a new performance monitoring page, HTML5 fallback for old YouTube embeds, and more. Right now, there's no public changelog available, but rest assured we'll update this post with all the new features included in Firefox 47. This article currently includes the features spotted in the Firefox 47 Beta and RC releases, which we have confirmed to have landed in the stable release. Synced Tabs Back in February, Mozilla developers announced a new feature called Synced Tabs. As the name hints, this new feature would allow anyone logged in their Firefox Sync account to access tabs open on any other synced Firefox device. The feature is accessible through different methods, either via the about:sync-tabs page, via buttons in the Firefox UI, or with the help of a specialized sidebar. Unless you have a Firefox Sync account, you won't probably spot the feature among the browser's busy UI. New Synced Tabs sidebar The new about:performance page This feature has been in the works for some months now, nearing a year. We first reported on its status while included in Firefox Nightly back in August 2015, and since then, Mozilla devs decided the feature was ready for primetime and finally shipped it with the stable branch. Users can access this new performance monitoring page by typing about:performance in their URL bar. This new page shows the status of current opened tabs and add-ons. Users can use this new page to check out what tab is eating up too much memory, or what add-on is about to crash. Color codes that range from green to red provide visual markers and controls allow users to restart the misbehaving tabs or add-ons and avoid a crash of the entire brower. PS: This new performance monitoring page should go right hand-in-hand with about:debugging, introduced a few versions back. New about:performance page Custom user agent strings Announced in March, this new feature is available in the browser's Tools -> Web Developer Tools -> Responsive Design view. The easiest way to reach this page would be to push the CTRL+SHIFT+M keyboard shortcut. This tool was already available in everyone's browsers for a long time, but Mozilla made a small tweak. Users can now set a custom user agent string for each tab. The feature can help users view how various sites would look in other browsers, without having to open those browsers. This new feature is directly addressed at developers, mainly for debugging purposes. All changes in this window are only temporary. Firefox 47 lets users select custom user agent strings per each tab Better video In January, we reported that future Firefox versions will automatically fix old YouTube embed codes and replace the code that requires Flash with the HTML5 homolog. This happens only when the user has disabled Flash in Firefox. The update was scheduled for Firefox 46, but it arrived only now. Another change that improved video support in Firefox 47 is the support for Google’s Widevine CDM on Windows and Mac OS X, added in Firefox 47 Beta 3. This modification makes it possible for Firefox to automatically switch from Silverlight to encrypted HTML5 video streams. Services that still use Silverlight include Amazon Video. Other changes Another major change in Firefox 47 is the removal of the Firefox click-to-activate plugin whitelist. All plugins (different from add-ons) will now be "click-to-activate" and users will have to approve each one if accessing a page on which they're required. The only exception to this is Flash, which will continue to be activated by default in Firefox 47 and future versions. At the time of writing, Firefox 47 is only available via Mozilla's FTP servers, so you can't just yet update via the browser's built-in updater. You can get a fresh copy of Firefox 47 and install it over your older version to upgrade manually. Article source Another review : Firefox 47: Find out what is new by ghacks.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vissha Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Firefox 47: Find Out What is New Find out what is new in Firefox 47. The guide looks at new features and changes of Firefox 47 for the desktop and for Android. Firefox 47 has been released on June 7th, 2016 to the stable channel. Firefox users can upgrade to the new version using the update functionality of the browser, or by downloading Firefox 47 from the Mozilla website. All Firefox channels that Mozilla maintains are updated on the same schedule which means that Firefox ESR, Beta, Developer and Nightly editions are also updated today. Firefox Stable is updated to version 47.0, Firefox Beta to 48.0, Firefox Developer Edition to 49.0, and Firefox Nightly to 50.0. Additionally, Firefox ESR is updated to 45.2, and the previous major release, 38.8 is no longer supported. Executive Summary Firefox Extension signing enforcement on Stable and Beta releases has been pushed back another version. Mozilla aims to remove the override switch in Firefox 48 now. The reason given is that there are not unbranded Stable and Beta releases available right now that add-on developers need for testing their add-ons. Firefox ESR 38.x is no longer supported. Firefox 47 gets support for Google Widevine CDM (Content Decryption Module). about:performance and about:debugging are two new internal pages. Firefox 47 download and update Most Firefox Stable users will probably update to the new version using the browser's update mechanics. Note: The review of Firefox 47.0 has been published on June 7th, 2016. Firefox may not pick up the update immediately on that day depending on when it is officially made available by Mozilla. To check for updates, tap on the Alt-key on the keyboard when Firefox is focused, and select Help > About Firefox. This displays the current version and runs a check for updates on top of that. If the update is found, it is either downloaded and installed automatically, or options to do so are displayed to you on that screen. You may download all editions of Firefox using the links below instead. Firefox Stable download Firefox Beta download Firefox Developer download Nightly download Firefox ESR download Firefox 47 Changes Click-to-activate whitelist removed Mozilla changed how plugins work in Firefox in 2014 by changing their default state from running on sites requesting them automatically to requiring user activation for that. Mozilla made available a whitelist for plugin owners which had the effect that these plugins were not set to click-to-play in Firefox. Inclusion on the whitelist required that the company put a plan in motion to move away from NPAPI, for instance by utilizing HTML5 in the future for functionality. Starting in Firefox 47, that whitelist is removed. Mozilla notes that Adobe Flash is the only plugin left that will retain whitelist status while the activation status of all other plugins that were whitelisted previously are changed to click-to-play. User-agent spoofing in Developer Tools You can set a custom user agent in the Responsive Mode of Firefox's Developer Tools as of Firefox 47. To use the feature, tape on F12 to bring up the Developer Tools screen. Select the responsive mode option by clicking on the icon in the menu bar (it is on the left of the cogwheel icon). There you find the option to enter a custom user agent that is then used to connect to the site. The new feature can be useful for making use of the feature temporarily, much like other options provided in the Developer Tools, such as disabling JavaScript, may be. An add-on like User-Agent Switcher offers better functionality though. Support for Google Widevine CDM Mozilla added support for Google Widevine CDM in Firefox 47. This is the second CDM that is being made available for Firefox, the first was Adobe's Primetime CDM which was made available in 2015. These Content Decryption Modules are required to play copy-protected content in Firefox without plugins. Google Widevine CDM is being made available for Windows Vista and higher, and Mac OS X. It will be downloaded automatically to Firefox, but activated on the first interaction with sites requiring Widevine. Widevine is an alternative for Silverlight, which means that Firefox users can now watch Amazon Prime videos without having Silverlight or Flash installed. For now, it works only with mp4 streams and not webm streams. About:performance Load about:performance in Firefox's address bar to receive performance information of installed add-ons and open web pages. It displays whether the add-on or web page is performing well or potentially slowing down Firefox. Also, it lists actions to disable or uninstall add-ons, or close or reload web pages. Other changes Embedded YouTube videos that use older code that relies solely on Flash can be played in Firefox even if Flash is not installed as the code is modified automatically to support HTML5 video. FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) has been removed. Enable VP9 video codec for users with fast machines. Allow no-cache on back/forward navigations for https resources. See bug 567365 for additional information. The preference browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand has been reset to default (TRUE) which means that Firefox will only load one tab on startup and on demand. You can change the preference's value back to FALSE to restore the previous behavior. Developer Changes Web page links to view-source URLS are blocked by Firefox due to the feature causing security issues in the past and being only useful to browser developers. View, start, and debug registered Service Workers. You need to enable worker debugging in the Developer Tools preferences first. about:debugging dashboard for Service workers. You can load it directly using this url: about:debugging#workers RSA-PSS signature support, and PBKDF2 supports SHA-2 hash algorithms. Added support for ChaCha20/Poly1305 cipher suites. Font Inspector is disabled by default. 3D View has been removed. Console detects incomplete input now and switches to multi-line mode automatically. Firefox for Android Block the loading of web fonts Firefox 47 for Android ships with a new preference that enables you to block the loading of web fonts to reduce bandwidth and data use. Web fonts are loaded by default, but you can disable that in the options. Here is how that is done: Select the menu icon and there Settings. Select Advanced Settings when the preferences screen opens. Locate the "show web fonts" preference, and flip it to off. Other Firefox 46 for Android changes Firefox 47 is the last to support Android 2.3.x devices. Removed support for Android web runtime WebRT. Favicons are removed from the address bar to prevent HTTPS spoofing Open multiple links renamed to Tab Queue. Security updates / fixes Mozilla releases information about security updates and fixes after the release. These will be added once they are made available. MFSA 2016-61 Network Security Services (NSS) vulnerabilities MFSA 2016-60 Java applets bypass CSP protections MFSA 2016-59 Information disclosure of disabled plugins through CSS pseudo-classes MFSA 2016-58 Entering fullscreen and persistent pointerlock without user permission MFSA 2016-57 Incorrect icon displayed on permissions notifications MFSA 2016-56 Use-after-free when textures are used in WebGL operations after recycle pool destruction MFSA 2016-55 File overwrite and privilege escalation through Mozilla Windows updater MFSA 2016-54 Partial same-origin-policy through setting location.host through data URI MFSA 2016-53 Out-of-bounds write with WebGL shader MFSA 2016-52 Addressbar spoofing though the SELECT element MFSA 2016-51 Use-after-free deleting tables from a contenteditable document MFSA 2016-50 Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments MFSA 2016-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:47.0 / rv:45.2) Additional information / sources Firefox 47 release notes Firefox 47 Android release notes Add-on compatibility for Firefox 47 Firefox 47 for developers Site compatibility for Firefox 47 Firefox Security Advisories Firefox Release Schedule Source Other Related Notes & Tips here: Firefox for Android - 47.0 Direct APK Download: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 11 hours ago, vissha said: Firefox 47 gets support for Google Widevine CDM (Content Decryption Module). More DRM crap so streaming services like Amazon Video can switch from Silverlight to encrypted HTML5 video. This why id would never subscribe to streaming services the only way Firefox will be able to not get closed down is too implement everything other major browsers do and really there hybrid with DRM baked in and should not be allowed to call themselves open source anymore . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Quote New versions of Firefox prepare for its biggest change ever Today's launch of Firefox 47 means the E10S version, Firefox 48, has reached the beta stage. With Electrolysis, Firefox will finally be able to use two or more processes at once.... the main problem being that it breaks a lot of extensions Today (June 7), Mozilla released Firefox 47, with improved handling for streaming, HTML5 video and the VP9 codec. But the more interesting news is that Firefox 48 has now reached the beta release stage. Firefox 48 incorporates the long-awaited Electrolysis (E10S), which enables the user interface to be run in a separate process from the tabbed content. Electrolysis will improve Firefox's performance and security, but it breaks a lot of extensions. However, Firefox will stage the release to minimize the problem. In a blog post, Asa Dotzler wrote: "When we launch Firefox 48, approximately 1 percent of eligible Firefox users will get updated to E10S immediately. The 1 percent of release users should get us up to a population similar to what we have in Beta so we'll be able compare the two. About ten days after launch, we'll get another round of feedback and analysis related to the release users with and without E10S. Assuming all is well, we'll turn the knobs so that the rest of the eligible Firefox users get updated to E10S over the following weeks. If we run into issues, we can slow the roll-out, pause it, or even disable E10sS for those who got it. We have all the knobs." Dotzler says: "E10S is the largest change we've ever made to Firefox and we hope you'll help us get through this with as few surprises as possible." With Electrolysis, Firefox can use child processes for content (tabs), media playback and legacy plug-ins. This is some way short of Google Chrome, which uses a different process for each tab. However, the result is that Chrome is a huge resource hog: Chrome uses roughly twice as much memory as Firefox on Windows and Linux. Eric Rahm has run some browser tests with Electrolysis, and says: "Overall we see a 10-20 percent increase in memory usage for the 1 content process case (which is what we plan on shipping initially). This seems like a fair trade-off for potential security and performance benefits." With 8 content processes, Rahm says: "we see roughly a doubling of memory usage on the TabsOpenSettled measurement. It's a bit worse on Windows, a bit better on OS X, but it's not 8 times worse." Unfortunately, Electrolysis breaks a lot of attachments, which could previously assume that the UI and web content were using the same memory space. Later, Firefox will get a WebExtensions API, which Mozilla says is "similar to the Blink extension API" that Chrome uses. Programmers and users are encouraged to log problems on the "are we e10s yet" page at Are your add-ons e10s compatible? At the moment, 153 extensions are compatible, 84 have been shimmed to work, 108 are broken, and 535 untested. The compatible extensions include Adblock Plus, Video Downloadhelper, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Tab Mix Plus and uBlock Origin. However, some major extensions have reported bugs, including NoScript, Ghostery, DownThemAll, Web of Trust, Session Manager, and the Flash Video Downloader. Seven of the 12 most popular extensions have problems. This is likely to be a deal-breaker for many users, including me. Firefox 48 is scheduled for release on August 2, so extension suppliers have a limited amount of time to fix problems. http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-versions-of-firefox-prepare-for-its-biggest-change-ever/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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