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Firefox 37 Released
Today Mozilla began rolling out Firefox version 37.0 to release channel users. This update mostly focuses on behind-the-scenes changes. Security improvements include opportunistic encryption where servers support it and improved protection against site impersonation. They also disabled insecure TLS version fallback and added a security panel within the developer tools. One of the things end users will see is the Heartbeat feedback collection system. It will pop up a small rating widget to a random selection of users every day. After a user rates Firefox, an "engagement" page may open in the background, with links to social media pages and a donation page. Here are the release notes and full changelist.
Older versions of the Certicom TLS stack used in older versions of WebLogic are affected for example (change to JSSE).
Not the programming language, "Ruby characters": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... - annotations for East Asian languages that show how to pronounce a particular word.
I dumped Firefox when they changed to the hipster bullshit minimalist interface known as Australis. For a while Waterfox and Palemoon were doing a decent job. One day I decided to try Chrome to see how 60fps video looked on Youtube. Talk about night and day. Chrome is so much more responsive and doesn't use as many resources. Grab the usual essential addons (uBlock, Flashblock, etc) and you're good to go. No wonder Firefox has a dwindling user base. Instead of improving whats already there I get a video chat client and a paper airplane button to alert people on social media? Is this like email forwarding of the 90s?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Disabling Heartbeat
We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.
open www.google.com/chrome
Download and install Chrome.
enjoy the rest of your day!
PaleMoon is a fork of Firefox without all the cruft that people started complaining about a couple years back. For starters it still has the good ol' UI from the version 30 days and it doesn't break all of your plugins with every update.