Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #6801


Ignore:
Timestamp:
08/11/2015 02:06:08 PM (9 years ago)
Author:
Fernando de Oliveira
Comment:

Starting late today. Was fixing a problem in a very important VM.

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed
Modified

  • Ticket #6801

    • Property Owner changed from blfs-book@… to Fernando de Oliveira
    • Property Priority normal → high
    • Property Status new → assigned

  • Ticket #6801 – Description

    initial v1  
    1 New version.
     1[https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/40.0/source/firefox-40.0.source.tar.bz2]
     2
     3[https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/40.0/MD5SUMS]
     4
     5md5sum: 62b9e6a4a46874a0be523fe41d3176e2
     6
     7Although I've not seen any CVE, just the change:
     8
     9  ◦ Added '''protection against unwanted software downloads'''
     10
     11deserves to include this version as a '''Security''' release.
     12
     13Bruce will probably be interested:
     14
     15  ◦ New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to '''tweak CSS Filter values'''
     16
     17[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0/releasenotes/]
     18
     19Not found. Giving, instead the beta release notes.
     20
     21[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0beta/releasenotes/]
     22
     23{{{
     24Firefox Beta Notes
     25Version 40.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on July 3, 2015
     26
     27What’s New
     28
     29• New
     30
     31  ◦ Support for Windows 10
     32  ◦ Added protection against unwanted software downloads
     33  ◦ User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on
     34    categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).
     35  ◦ Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on
     36    what the conversation will be about
     37  ◦ New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences
     38    style
     39  ◦ Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with
     40    off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
     41  ◦ Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be
     42    specified, limiting the number of devices blocked
     43
     44• Changed
     45
     46  ◦ Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a
     47    warning
     48  ◦ NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
     49  ◦ Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)
     50  ◦ JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
     51  ◦ Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus
     52    protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
     53
     54• HTML5
     55
     56  ◦ IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
     57  ◦ Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate
     58    in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals
     59
     60• Developer
     61
     62  ◦ Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view,
     63    Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
     64  ◦ New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
     65  ◦ Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now
     66    displayed in web console
     67  ◦ New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight
     68    horizontal and vertical rules on a page
     69  ◦ Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
     70
     71• Fixed
     72
     73  ◦ Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
     74}}}