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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.
39.0
Firefox Release
July 2, 2015
Version 39.0, first offered to Release channel users on July 2, 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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Share Hello URLs with social networks
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Project Silk: Smoother animation and scrolling (Mac OS X)
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Support for 'switch' role in ARIA 1.1 (web accessibility)
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SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups enabled for downloads (Mac OS X and Linux)
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Support for new Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji
Fixed
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Improve performance of IPv6 fallback to IPv4
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Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers
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A regression that could lead to Flash not displaying has been fixed
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Security state indicator on a page now correctly ignores loads caused by previous pages
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Fixed an issue where a Hello conversation window would sometimes fail to open
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Various security fixes
Changed
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Removed support for insecure SSLv3 for network communications
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Performance of displaying dashed lines is improved (Mac OS X)
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Malware detection service for downloads now covers common Mac file types
Developer
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Cubic bezier tooltip now shows a gallery of timing-function presets for use with CSS animations
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localhost is now available offline for WebSocket connections
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Drag and drop enabled for nodes in Inspector markup view
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Web Console input history persists even after closing the toolbox
HTML5
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Added support for CSS Scroll Snap Points
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List-style-type now accepts a string value
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Cascading of CSS transitions and animations now matches the current spec
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Enable the Fetch API for network requests from dedicated, shared and service workers
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Implemented
<link rel="preconnect">allowing anticipation of a future connection without revealing any information
