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Firefox 37 Released

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

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.

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  1. They disabled insecure TLS version fallback by yuhong · · Score: 3, Informative

    Older versions of the Certicom TLS stack used in older versions of WebLogic are affected for example (change to JSSE).

  2. Re:MSE Support by Fwipp · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.