A new stable release of Mozilla Firefox web browser has been release yesterday with new features include tab-based preferences, and responsive image support.
Here’s the full list of changes in Firefox 38:
- New tab-based preferences
- Ruby annotation support
- Base for the next ESR release.
- autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields
- URL parser avoids doing percent encoding when setting the Fragment part of the URL, and percent decoding when getting the Fragment in line with the URL spec
- RegExp.prototype.source now returns “(?:)” instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions
- Improved page load times via speculative connection warmup
- WebSocket now available in Web Workers
- BroadcastChannel API implemented
- Implemented srcset attribute and
element for responsive images - Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code
- Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube
- Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback (Windows Vista or later only)
- Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME (Windows Vista or later only)
- Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI
- XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests
- WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support
- copy command added to console
- Various security fixes
How to Upgrade to Firefox 38:
The new release has been made into the Ubuntu security repository half an hour ago. Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13/17, eOS Freya/Luna users can easily upgrade to Firefox 38 via Software Updater or Updater Manager:
Thank you Ji m. Always your help is so neccesary. Now I have my fave web browser (Firefox) updated using Ubuntu 14.04.2LTS amd64.