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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 complete list of changes in this release.
36.0
Firefox Release
February 24, 2015
Version 36.0, first offered to Release channel users on February 24, 2015
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
New
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Pinned tiles on the new tab page can be synced
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Support for the full HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 enables a faster, more scalable, and more responsive web.
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Locale added: Uzbek (uz)
Fixed
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Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart
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Various security fixes
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CSS gradients work on premultiplied colors
Changed
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Shut down hangs will now show the crash reporter before exiting the program
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Phasing out Certificates with 1024-bit RSA Keys
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No longer accept insecure RC4 ciphers whenever possible
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-remoteoption removed
Developer
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Inspector: More paste options in markup view
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Eval sources now appear in the Debugger
Debug JavaScript code that is evaluated dynamically, either as a string passed to eval() or as a string passed to the Function constructor
HTML5
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Changed JavaScript 'const' semantics to conform better to the ES6 specification.
The const declaration is now block-scoped and requires an initializer. It also can not be redeclared anymore. -
Improved ES6 generators for better performance
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CSS3 will-change property implemented.
Hints the browser of elements that will be modified. The browser will perform some performance optimization for these -
isolation CSS property implemented.
Create a new stacking context to isolate groups of boxes to control which blend together -
object-fit and object-position implemented.
Defines how and where the content of a replaced element is displayed -
CSSOM-View scroll behavior implemented allowing smooth scrolling of content without custom libraries
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unicode-range CSS descriptor implemented
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Support for the ECMAScript 6 Symbol data type added
