firefox-50.0

[Douglas R. Reno]

New major version

    Playback video on more sites without plugins with WebM EME Support for Widevine on Windows and Mac

    Improved performance for SDK extensions or extensions using the SDK module loader

    Added download protection for a large number of executable file types on Windows, Mac and Linux

    Increased availability of WebGL to more than 98 percent of users on Windows 7 and newer

    Added Guarani (gn) locale

    Added option to Find in page that allows users to limit search to whole words only

    Updates to keyboard shortcuts
        Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order
        View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)



    Various security fixes

    Fixed rendering of dashed and dotted borders with rounded corners (border-radius)

    Blocked versions of libavcodec older than 54.35.1

    Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)

​https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

SEVERAL CRITICAL AND HIGH VULNERABILITIES FIXED.

Too many CVEs to list here.

[ken@…]

I've just uploaded a newer version of the system graphite and harfbuzz patch. That seems to be working fine on BLFS-7.10 with current sqlite, icu57, current nss and nspr with the current instructions.

configure unchanged from 49.0.2, configure.py does not add any new options.

[ken@…]

Fixed at r17966

[bdubbs@…]

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