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November 3rd, 2015 06:00

Updates 11/3/15 - Firefox, Avast 2016

Firefox Version 42.0, first offered to Release channel users on November 3, 2015 

  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/42.0/releasenotes/

What’s New

  • New

    Private Browsing with Tracking Protection blocks certain Web elements that could be used to record your behavior across sites

  • New

    Control Center that contains site security and privacy controls; see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-center-site-privacy-and-security-firefox

  • New

    Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting

  • New

    WebRTC improvements:

    • IPV6 support
    • Preferences for controlling ICE candidate generation and IP exposure
    • Hooks for extensions to allow/deny createOffer/Answer
    • Improved ability for applications to monitor and control which devices are used in getUserMedia
  • New

    Login Manager improvements:

    • Improved heuristics to save usernames and passwords
    • Edit and show all logins in line, Copy/Paste usernames/passwords from the Context menu
    • Migration imports your passwords to Firefox from Google Chrome for Windows and Internet Explorer; import anytime from the Login Manager
  • Changed

    Improved performance on interactive websites that trigger a lot of restyles

  • HTML5

    Implemented ES6 Reflect

  • HTML5

    Support ImageBitmap and createImageBitmap()

  • HTML5

    Media Source Extension for HTML5 video available for all sites

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Internal update via HELP / About Firefox

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EDIT:   For SECURITY fixes in today's FF release, see lower in this thread.

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November 3rd, 2015 06:00

Avast 2016 has been released.

Since there's usually an ongoing discussion about changes in avast, I prefer to separate this topic into a thread of its own.   See http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19659442

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November 3rd, 2015 16:00

Reminder:   Here's the latest Time-Line for the implementation of FF's new extension policy:

Firefox 40-42: Firefox warns about signatures but doesn't enforce them.

Firefox 43: Firefox will have a preference that allows signature enforcement to be disabled (xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config).

Firefox 44: Release and Beta versions of Firefox will not allow unsigned extensions to be installed, with no override.


https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing#Timeline

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