New
- Share Hello URLs with social networks
- Project Silk: Smoother animation and scrolling (Mac OS X)
- Support for switch role in ARIA 1.1 (web accessibility)
- SafeBrowsing malware detection lookups enabled for downloads (Mac OS X and Linux)
- Support for new Unicode 8.0 skin tone emoji
Changed
- Removed support for insecure SSLv3 for network communications
- Disable use of RC4 except for temporarily whitelisted hosts
- The malware detection service for downloads now covers common Mac file types (Bug 1138721)
- Performance of displaying dashed lines is improved (Mac OS X) (Bug 1123019)
HTML5
- List-style-type now accepts a string value
- Enable the Fetch API for network requests from dedicated, shared and service workers
- Cascading of CSS transitions and animations now matches the current spec
- Implement <link rel=preconnect>allowing anticipation of a future connection without revealing any information
- Added support for CSS Scroll Snap Points
Developer
- Drag and drop enabled for nodes in Inspector markup view
- Webconsole input history persists even after closing the toolbox
- Cubic bezier tooltip now shows a gallery of timing-function presets for use with CSS animations
- localhost is now available offline for WebSocket connections
Fixed
- Improve performance for IPv6 fallback to IPv4
- Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers
- The Security state indicator on a page now correctly ignores loads caused by previous pages
- Fixed an issue where a Hello conversation window would sometimes fail to open
- A regression that could lead to Flash not displaying has been fixed
- Update to NSS 3.19.2
- Various security fixes