Firefox Aurora
Release Notes

Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.

34.0a2 Firefox Aurora

September 2, 2014

Version 34.0a2, first offered to Aurora channel users on September 2, 2014

New

  • Easily switch themes/personas directly in the Customizing mode

  • Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs

  • Wikipedia search now uses HTTPS for secure searching (en-US only)

  • Non-intrusive way to set Firefox as default browser

  • Implementation of HTTP/2 (draft14) and ALPN

  • Recover from a locked Firefox process in the "Firefox is already running" dialog on Windows

Fixed

  • CSS transitions start correctly when started at the same time as changes to display, position, overflow, and similar properties

Developer

  • Developer Information

  • WebIDE: Create, edit, and test a new Web application from your browser

  • Highlight all nodes that match a given selector in the Style Editor and the Inspector's Rules panel

  • Improved User Interface of the Profiler

  • console.table function added to web console

Web Platform

  • Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added

  • ECMAScript 6 WeakSet Implemented

  • JavaScript Template Strings Implemented

  • CSS3 Font variants and features control (e.g. kerning) implemented

  • WebCrypto: RSA-OAEP, PBKDF2 and AES-KW support

  • WebCrypto: wrapKey and unwrapKey implemented

  • WebCrypto: Import/export of JWK-formatted keys

  • matches() DOM API implemented (formerly mozMatchesSelector())

  • Performance.now() for workers implemented

  • WebCrypto: ECDH support

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