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Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 27 for Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows (download). One of the big changes is enabling support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 by default. Firefox 27 also supports the SPDY 3.1 protocol. Developers got some new toys: support was added for ES6 generators in SpiderMonkey, the debugger will de-obfuscate JavaScript, and style sheets can be reset by using all:unset. Mozilla also announced some new social integration options. In addition to all these changes, the Android version got some UI improvements and font readability upgrades. For a future release, Mozilla is currently testing a new approach for Firefox Sync in Nightly builds. They recognized the headaches involved with how it works, and they're now opting to use a simple e-mail and password combination like Google Chrome does. In the old system, users were forced to store an auto-generated authorization code, which, if lost, would render their bookmarks, passwords and browsing history inaccessible. "

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  1. WebApi/WebPayment by buchner.johannes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want to see WebPayment lift off. This could be a huge enabler for small internet businesses. Any news on that?

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    NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
  2. Re:Yes, but have they fixed the crashes? by Lord+Crc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe it's me, but Firefox 26 would crash at the drop of a hat

    Tried running it in "safe mode" without addon's and see how that goes?

    Firefox still crashes for me when it runs out of memory due to buggy javascript in either an addon or on a page. For example we use FinalBuilder at work, and the build control page has a massive memory leak in the javascript (sucky dom handling in web 2.0 crap) causing FF to run out of memory if I leave the page open over night.

    Other than that it's been very stable on all the machines I've used it on for many years now (and that's both Windows and Linux).

  3. Re:Too late, switched to Chrome by JDG1980 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What we really need is "Firefox Classic": a maintainable fork that takes the Firefox code base and strips it down to the essentials, without social networking add-ons or any of that garbage. Sort of like how Firefox itself originally forked off of the Mozilla Application Suite, come to think of it.

  4. Enough of the social media garbage by TheMadTopher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one who could care less about social media integration?