May 2012
26 posts
Placeholders in HTML forms will now also be displayed when focusing an empty input: https://t.co/uGnp3Uz3 #a11y /via @rik24d
Background updates landed this week (http://t.co/pl88kweG). It’s the last big piece of silent updates for @Firefox: https://t.co/kOAF7MWo
No more ‘java’ and ‘Packages’ DOM Objects in @FirefoxNightly. Article: http://t.co/FwfSBzNu bug: https://t.co/8qnLdfOe
In-content preferences are now available in @FirefoxNightly: http://t.co/xrLK5Www
DataView (from Typed Arrays spec) is now implemented in Firefox: http://t.co/OjmBLzkm
Firefox now supports Opus voice codec for <audio> & <video> (for real time voice communication. useful for WebRTC). http://t.co/9lrXMXl4
FIXED: Bug 377624 - Implement the accept attribute for the form and file upload controls form “image/*”
In-content preferences, that is preferences as Web pages landed in @FirefoxNightly Thx @bogas04 for this nice video http://t.co/ByJUNXgG
Fixed: http://t.co/75dNefIg - Remove support for Chrome -> Content leaks: http://t.co/hRfz5J2x
Dev tools: Implement a layout view http://t.co/LCFicbhK (about:config -> devtools.layoutview.enabled) Screenshot: http://t.co/APJr5Nub
Syntax used for -moz-font-feature-settings has been updated: http://t.co/njPJE5B4
Firefox on Linux. XRender can now be disabled.Faster accel Layers. In some conditions, 2D content can be slower though. http://t.co/79a3oxZK
Support for CSS3 Text property word-break landed in @FirefoxNightly Useful when mixing CJK and latin scripts. https://t.co/ijjBTEsg
JSScript has been shrinked leading to less memory (often in the MB range) used by script-heavy pages (like Gmail). Better @FirefoxNightly
DOM Range.detach() method was buggy and non-standard. It is now a no-op and wil be removed in the future. https://t.co/AWi8EpmJ
Support for GPU acceleration when clipping objects, like videos, to rounded rectangles :-)https://t.co/1vKea96b https://t.co/GMLtFgJv
GPU acceleration and better algorithm heuristic for image scaling! https://t.co/oleckWHm https://t.co/cSOBxdnV https://t.co/Ah7Ust5b
Basic support for VoiceOver on Mac has been added in @FirefoxNightly #a11y http://t.co/73SIjUAK
CSS3 text-transform handles now Unicode ligature characters correctly. https://t.co/lghAUVad
A huge class of add-ons related leaks have been fixed, in the browser itself. http://t.co/hRfz5J2x
Speculative connection added to search bar: it is opened as soon as you start typing, saving precious ms. Snappier. https://t.co/JyOYcvBe
Support for the Opus audio codec has been added. Useful for WebRTC! \o/ https://t.co/11LFAnj0
If the charset of an HTTP content-disposition header filename is inconsistent with it, the filename is now ignored. https://t.co/qflOjz5A
IDN is now supported for .fr .re .pm .tf .yt .wf domains. NNo more punycode for them. https://t.co/mRzKnJ7e
Memory improvement in @FirefoxNightly: chrome-to-content leaks are now impossible (interesting for leaky addons). See http://t.co/ex2gIrxA
See http://t.co/X7jElVwF for a screenshot of new task-specific icons for Windows 7 jumplists in today’s Nighlty builds :)
