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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 system requirements of this release.
62.0beta
Firefox Beta
June 26, 2018
Version 62.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on June 26, 2018
New
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Display preview image and favicon in the New Bookmark dialog
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Added a Clear Site Data and Cookies button to the identity popup located next to the address bar so as to provide a quick and easy process to delete local data for the visited website
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Three-pane Inspector in Developer Tools separates the rules into its own panel
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New tab page sections such as top sites, highlights, and Pocket can be adjusted to include 1 to 4 rows in the Preferences
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Added Canadian English (en-CA) locale
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Users who disconnect Firefox for desktop from Sync are now offered the option to wipe their personal data from that device (such as bookmarks, passwords, history, cookies, and site data)
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Added a button to the hamburger menu to toggle Tracking Protection on and off
Changed
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The description field for bookmarks has been removed. Users who manually changed the field can export old descriptions via html or json. Stored descriptions will be removed in a future release.
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The release version of Firefox 62 will be sandboxing AutoConfig to the documented API. You can test this in Firefox Beta by setting the preference general.config.sandbox_enabled to true. If you need to continue use more complex AutoConfig scripts, you will need to use Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).
Web Platform
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JavaScript library for interactive editing of CSS Shapes values in the browser, with functional values like polygon(), circle() and ellipse()
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CSS Variable Fonts (OpenType Font Variations) enable a single font file to behave like multiple fonts
