Firefox Heartbeat user rating system is a new new firefox user feedback system.
Every day a random subset of users are offered a rating widget to rate the firefox and after rating, an ENGAGEMENT page with high-rating users by offering a set of links may open in a background tab.
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Mozilla firefox 37 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 37 ?
New Heartbeat user rating system – your feedback about Firefox.
Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale.
Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching.
Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation.
Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP/2 AltSvc.
Disabled insecure TLS version fallback for site security.
Extended SSL error reporting for reporting non-certificate errors.
TLS False Start optimization now requires a cipher suite using AEAD construction.
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Firefox 36.0.4 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release. What’s new in this release?
Security fixes for issues disclosed at HP Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own contest
1.Privilege escalation through SVG navigation.
2.Code execution through incorrect JavaScript bounds checking elimination.
Firefox 36.0.1 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release. What’s new in this release?
Fixed
Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type
Fixed a startup crash with EMET
Hello may become inactive until restart
Print preferences may not be preserved
Hello contact tabs may not be visible
Accept hostnames that include an underscore character (“_”)
WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d
Option -remote has been restored
Fix a top crash
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Mozilla firefox 36 stable is now available for download.What’s new in this firefox 36?
Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced.
Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
Locale added: Uzbek (uz).
-remote option removed.
No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible.
Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys.
Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program.
New Add-on Compatibility.
Softwares used:
Firefox 34.0.5
Windows 7
To install Firefox OS on windows
1.Open firefox browser.click the firefox Menu and Select Developer.
Mozilla firefox 34.0.5 stable is now available for download.
What’s new in this firefox 34.0.5?
Default search engine changed to Yahoo! for North America
Default search engine changed to Yandex for Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian locales
Improved search bar (en-US only)
Firefox Hello real-time communication client
Easily switch themes/personas directly in the Customizing mode
Wikipedia search now uses HTTPS for secure searching (en-US only)
Implementation of HTTP/2 (draft14) and ALPN
Recover from a locked Firefox process in the “Firefox is already running” dialog on Windows
Disabled SSLv3
Mozilla firefox 33.1 stable is now available for download.
What’s new in this firefox 33.1?
Forget button – quickly delete your browsing history on Firefox.
Enhanced Tiles – Existing Firefox users will be offered a set of Enhanced Tiles based on their browsing history.
Privacy tour introduced.
Adding DuckDuckGo as a search option.
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Mozilla has released the Firefox Developer Edition.Firefox Developer Edition replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox Release Process. Like Aurora, features will land in the Developer Edition every six weeks.
Firefox Developer Edition Main features:
Developer Edition application launcher icon
Developer Edition theme
Toolbox launcher
Valence – an automatically installed add-on provides debugger support for Safari on iOS
Developer Edition uses its own profile, can be disabled (see bug 1086936)
Ambient update notification
Improved handling of dynamic styling changes to increase responsiveness
Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension (for enhanced authentication of encrypted connections)
Changed JavaScript ‘let’ semantics
Resource Timing API implemented
CSS filters enabled by default
WebSocket available in Workers
Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements
Firefox has planned to released a new Dedicated Browser for Developers on Nov 10th.
Main features:
allowing you to more easily build awesome Web experiences.
It integrates some new tools like WebIDE and the Firefox Tools Adapter.