Mozilla firefox 38 released

Mozilla firefox 38 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 38 ?

firefox 38

New tab-based preferences
Ruby annotation support
Base for the next ESR release.
autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields
URL parser avoids doing percent encoding when setting the Fragment part of the URL, and percent decoding when getting the Fragment in line with the URL spec
RegExp.prototype.source now returns “(?:)” instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions
Improved page load times via speculative connection warmup
WebSocket now available in Web Workers
BroadcastChannel API implemented
Implemented srcset attribute and <picture> element for responsive images
Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code
Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube
Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback (Windows Vista or later only)
Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME (Windows Vista or later only)
Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI
XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests
WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support
copy command added to console
security fixes

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Mozilla Windows updater can be run outside of application directory
Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages
Untrusted site hosting trusted page can intercept webchannel responses
Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read while parsing MP4 video metadata
Buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML
Use-after-free due to Media Decoder Thread creation during shutdown
Sensitive URL encoded information written to Android logcat
Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled
Out-of-bounds read and write in asm.js validation
Referrer policy ignored when links opened by middle-click and context menu
Buffer overflow with SVG content and CSS
Buffer overflow parsing H.264 video with Linux Gstreamer
Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.0 / rv:31.7)

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