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Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets

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

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions to the browser include some security improvements, better HTML 5 support, and a new tablet user interface on Android. The biggest news for the browser is undoubtedly HTTP/2 support, the roadmap for which Mozilla outlined just last week. Mozilla plans to keep various draft levels of HTTP/2, already in Firefox, for a few versions. These will be removed "sometime in the near future." The full changelog is here.

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  1. They make it sound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    like HTTP/2 support is a feature and enhancement. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2716278

  2. Re:I've posted this 1312 times by AFCArchvile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Installing NoScript onto Firefox is one of the best things I've done for Firefox memory usage. It's also more secure since it stifles most cross-site scripting connections, drastically reduces load times since said cross-site scripting isn't being loaded.

    Then again, I'm still looking over at Pale Moon, and thinking that I should abandon Firefox entirely and shift my primary browsing over to Pale Moon. It accepts Noscript, and doesn't even need Classic Theme Restorer or Status-4-Evar installed, since it never messed with the UI, and never removed the status bar. (I don't know if Firefox 36 still has this problem, but Firefox 35, 34, 33, etc, all had an issue where a new window would sometimes result in the status bar not appearing. I like seeing a status bar in a windowed program, since it does what it says on the tin: provides status cues, as well as providing far less annoying insight than hovering the mouse over something and waiting for a tooltip to appear.

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  3. Re:What about the 87% of 'sad' feedback reports? by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, the general feedback rule is 20/80 -- usually 80% of feedback is negative. So this is your balance point. 87% negative means that they're getting 7% negative feedback from users who normally wouldn't be providing negative feedback, which is a concern, but not as big as the 87% number would indicate.

    So the real question is: How long have they been on a downward trend with an 81%+ negative rating? Are there signs that they are adjusting something to deal with that feedback?

    The secondary question is: what exactly is the negative feedback about? Is it that Firefox now uses a bundleware installer that attempts to foist third party products on you? Is it that the Yahoo search doesn't give the same results people are used to from Google? Is it that the software crashes regularly? Slow javascript? Unimplemented features? Is it that certain sites don't work with Flash disabled or NoScript enabled? People don't like the icon?

    Personally, I'm not having any problems with Firefox, other than that it is starting to roll some features into the core browser that in all fairness should be plugins. I still prefer it to the privacy mess that is Chrome and the "nothing to see here" way Safari and IE have been hiding details of their browsing experience from the end user by default. That said, I still go to Safari when I want to see what components are actually running during a web session -- some of that doesn't show up too well in Firefox's Web Console.