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50.0beta Firefox Beta

September 20, 2016

Version 50.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on September 20, 2016

New

  • Lock icon strikethrough for pages containing insecure password fields

  • Improved printing by using the Reader Mode

  • New preference for allowing Ctrl+Tab to cycle through tabs in recently used order

  • Updates to keyboard shortcuts

    • Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order
    • View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)

  • Added option to Find in page that allows users to limit search to whole words only

  • Added Guarani (gn) locale

Fixed

  • Fixed rendering of dashed and dotted borders with rounded corners (border-radius)

Changed

  • Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)

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