Firefox Notes
Version 29.0, first offered to Release channel users on April 29, 2014
Check out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla. If interested, please see the complete list of changes in this release.
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
What’s New
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New
The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account (learn more)
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New
Search suggestions available via Bing search plugin when set as default search engine
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New
HTTPS used for Yahoo Searches performed in en-US locale
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New
Better integration for Open Web Apps
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New
Set default home panel
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New
Hide/Show home panels
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New
Added multiple quick share buttons
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Changed
Removed ability to 'send tab' to remote device
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Changed
Performance improved by replacing throbber with a progress bar
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Changed
Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab
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Developer
'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented (learn more)
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Developer
Console object available in Web Workers (learn more)
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Developer
Promises enabled by default (learn more)
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Developer
SharedWorker enabled by default
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Developer
<input type="number"> implemented and enabled
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Developer
Synthetic APKs enabled by default
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Developer
Implemented URLSearchParams from the URL specification (see MDN for details )
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Developer
Color picker widget implemented, access by using <input type="color">
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Fixed
Improved favicon.ico decoding (748100)
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Fixed
Various security fixes
Known Issues
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unresolved
Character Encoding selection via menu is broken (see bug 1003897)
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unresolved
Moving Firefox to background while playing a flash video in full screen mode and bring it back to view will freeze the app (see 809055)
