Mozilla firefox 41 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 42 ?
New features:
Enhance IME support on Windows (Vista +) using TSF (Text Services Framework)
Ability to set a profile picture for your Firefox Account
Firefox Hello now includes instant messaging
SVG images can be used as favicons
Improved box-shadow rendering performance
Changed from previous version:
WebRTC now requires perfect forward secrecy
WARP is disabled on Windows 7
Updates to image decoding process
Support for running animations of ‘transform’ and ‘opacity’ on the compositor thread
HTML5 features:
MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default
Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements
CSS Font Loading API enabled by default
Navigator.onLine now varies with actual internet connectivity (Windows and Mac OS X only)
Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript to the OS clipboard with document.execCommand(“cut”/”copy”)
Implemented Cache API for querying named caches that are accessible Window, Worker, and ServiceWorker
Developer features:
Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK “system/child_process” pipe
mechanism for native binaries instead
Network requests can be exported in HAR format
Quickly add new CSS rule with New Rule button in the Inspector
Screenshot a node or element from markup view with the Screenshot Node context menu item
Copy element CSS rule declarations with the Copy Rule Declaration context menu item in the Inspector
Pseudo-Class panel in the Inspector
Fixed:
Picture element does not react to resize/viewport changes
and security fixes
