Mozilla Firefox 41.0 Beta 8 发布

Mozilla Firefox 41 Beta 8已经发布，它最大的改进是加入了一个名为Pocket的在线收藏夹功能，并开始支持TSF文本服务框架，引入了新的会话恢复页面，Firefox账户现已 可以设定头像，并且Firefox Hello开始支持即时通信，而地址栏图标favicon开始支持SVG格式。除此之外还有一些性能上的改进。安装时需要注意，没有签名的扩展在41版以后将不能够再被启用，如果对老扩展有需求的用户，请考虑一下再升级。

New

SVG images can be used as favicons

New

Support for TSF (Text Services Framework).

New

New look for session restore and welcome back page

New

Ability to set a profile picture for your Firefox Account.

New

Firefox Hello now includes instant messaging

Changed

Type 2 Add-ons (Extensions) that have not been signed by Mozilla will be disabled by default. Read more about Add-on signing in Firefox

Changed

Memory overhead of AdBlock Plus has been greatly reduced

Changed

WebRTC now requires perfect forward secrecy

Changed

WARP is disabled on windows 7

Changed

Improved image decoding with performance up to twice as fast on some devices especially while scrolling

Changed

Smoother and more reliable CSS animations via asynchronous animations

HTML5

CSS Font Loading API enabled by default

HTML5

Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript with document.execCommand("cut"/"copy")

HTML5

MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default

HTML5

Navigator.onLine now varies with actual internet connectivity (Windows and Mac OS X only)

HTML5

Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements

HTML5

Implemented Cache API for querying named caches that are accessible window, Worker, and ServiceWorker

Developer

Screenshot a node or element from markup view with the Screenshot Node context menu item

Developer

Copy element CSS rule declarations with the Copy Rule Declaration context menu item in the Inspector

Developer

Network requests can be exported in HAR format

Developer

Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK "system/child_process" pipe mechanism for native binaries instead

Developer

Pseudo-Class panel in the Inspector

Developer

View HTML source in a tab

Developer

Quickly add new CSS rule with New Rule button in the Inspector

Fixed

Picture element does not react to resize/viewport changes