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Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.
41.0
Firefox Release
September 22, 2015
Version 41.0, first offered to Release channel users on September 22, 2015
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
New
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Ability to set a profile picture for your Firefox Account
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Enhance IME support on Windows (Vista +) using TSF (Text Services Framework)
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SVG images can be used as favicons
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Improved box-shadow rendering performance
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Firefox Hello now includes instant messaging
Fixed
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Picture element does not react to resize/viewport changes
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Various security fixes
Changed
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Updates to image decoding process
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WebRTC now requires perfect forward secrecy
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WARP is disabled on Windows 7
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Support for running animations of 'transform' and 'opacity' on the compositor thread
Developer
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Pseudo-Class panel in the Inspector
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Copy element CSS rule declarations with the Copy Rule Declaration context menu item in the Inspector
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Screenshot a node or element from markup view with the Screenshot Node context menu item
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Quickly add new CSS rule with New Rule button in the Inspector
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Network requests can be exported in HAR format
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Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK "system/child_process" pipe mechanism for native binaries instead
HTML5
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Navigator.onLine now varies with actual internet connectivity (Windows and Mac OS X only)
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CSS Font Loading API enabled by default
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Implemented Cache API for querying named caches that are accessible Window, Worker, and ServiceWorker
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Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript to the OS clipboard with document.execCommand("cut"/"copy")
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Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements
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MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default


