Firefox 39.0 Brings New Features, HTML5 Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 3 July 2015 at 09:15 AM EDT. 29 Comments
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Firefox 39.0 is available this morning before the 4th of July weekend holiday in the US.

Firefox 39.0 brings support to share Hello URLs with social networks, smoother animation and scrolling on OS X, SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups are now enabled on Linux, and support for the Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji. Firefox 39 also has dropped support for insecure SSLv3 from network communications, new HTML5 CSS/JavaScript changes, developer improvements, and many bug-fixes.

More details on Firefox 39 can be found via the Mozilla release notes.
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