Firefox 39.0 Brings New Features, HTML5 Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 39.0 Brings New Features, HTML5 Changes

Firefox 39.0 is available this morning before the 4th of July weekend holiday in the US...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Firefox-39-Released

[lkundrak]

Do you really have to say it's going to be holidays in the US?

Nobody gives a fucking shit about this outside the US.

I do, and I'm outside US.

You're wrong.

Cheers,
Lubo

[Pajn]

Good progress. In terms of interesting changes (new api support and developer improvements) I think this is the biggest release for a long time.

[hajj_3]

Good progress. In terms of interesting changes (new api support and developer improvements) I think this is the biggest release for a long time.

firefox 40 beta 1 has removed the window that has all your settings on, now that opens in a new tab. That is a big change coming up. Unfortunately the extensions don't show which have been updated or their version number in their name, you have to click "more" each time which is annoying.

[Pajn]

That is a big change coming up.

I would disagree, it just looks a tad better in an area you accesses very seldom. Eneabling new great APIs (like the fetch API) or improvements in tools I use daily is far more useable.

[89c51]

hmmm. wasn't this version supposed to enable mse on linux by default?

[GreatEmerald]

firefox 40 beta 1 has removed the window that has all your settings on, now that opens in a new tab.

Eh? It's already like that in 38. Looks a bit different, but it's in a tab and not a window.

[schmidtbag]

Seems like a very underwhelming release, which isn't good considering how much firefox has to catch up on.

[M@GOid]

I'm using Firefox developer 40 and compared with 38, is better. The performance with the 10something multi-thread is better, not in the same level of Chrome, but better than 38. And finally the YouTube performance with VP9 is good enough to play 720p videos in my AMD A4 (17w) Trinity ultrabook. But Chrome can play at 1080p, so more improvements are possible.

[schmidtbag]

I can't remember the last release that wasn't disappointing.

They need to stop adding bloat (Hello, Pocket...) and finish HTML5 already. I refused to switch to the privacy sieve that is Chrome, but Firefox is turning into a real piece of junk

Eh, I've seen some pretty good releases in the past 2 years. I've been using it for a long while myself, but I'll probably be switching away from it pretty soon. If they can adopt PPAPI I might switch back.

But yeah, they do really need to stop adding this stupid misc crap and hurry up with finishing HTML5 and GTK3.