What’s new in Firefox 47.0.1:
- Selenium WebDriver may cause Firefox to crash at startup
New in Firefox 47.0:
- 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 in Firefox 47.0:
Various security fixes
Changed in Firefox 47.0:
- 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.
- XRender is no longer used for rendering web content on Linux as this may cause a regression in remote X performance
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, light and tidy open source web browser. At its public launch in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was the first browser to challenge Microsoft Internet Explorer’s dominance. Since then, Mozilla Firefox has consistently featured in the top 3 most popular browsers globally. The key features that have made Mozilla Firefox so popular are the simple and effective UI, browser speed and strong security capabilities. The browser is particularly popular with developers thanks to its open source development and active community of advanced users
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