Firefox v45

Mozilla Corporation’s free and open-source web browser, Mozilla Firefox gets a new stable release, Firefox version 45.0.2, which includes new features, bug fixes and more.

Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser, which includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, and many additional features.

Overview:
Made with a mission to put you first
We’ve always designed Firefox to protect and respect your private information. That’s why we’re proud to be voted the Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy.

Works the way you do
How you use the Web is unique. Firefox lets you change it to match. Remove what you don’t use, keep what you do and put it just about anywhere you want.

Faster at what you do most
Firefox was named the ”speed king” in independent benchmark and performance tests against other browsers. Save time and do just about anything quicker than before.

What’s new in Firefox 45.0.2:

Fixed:

• Fix an issue impacting the cookie header when third-party cookies are blocked (1257861)
• Fix a web compatibility regression impacting the srcset attribute of the image tag (1259482)
• Fix a crash impacting the video playback with Media Source Extension (1258562)
• Fix a regression impacting some specific uploads (1255735)
• Fix a regression with the copy and paste with some old versions of some Gecko applications like Thunderbird (1254980)

What’s new in Firefox 45.0.1:

Fixed:

• Fix a potential performance regression (Youtube for example) (1220502)
• Fix a regression causing search engine settings to be lost in some context (1254694)
• Bring back non-standard jar: URIs to fix a regression in IBM iNotes (1255139)
• XSLTProcessor.importStylesheet was failing when <import> was used (1249572)
• Fix an issue which could cause the list of search provider to be empty (1255605)
• Fix a regression when using the location bar (1254503)
• Fix some loading issues when Accept third-party cookies: was set to Never (1254856)

Changed

• Disabled Graphite font shaping library

What’s new in Firefox 45:

New:

• Instant browser tab sharing through Hello
• Synced Tabs button in button bar
• Tabs synced via Firefox Accounts from other devices are now shown in dropdown area of Awesome Bar when searching
• Introduce a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking .onion at the DNS level
• Guarani [gn] locale added

Fixed:

• Various security fixes
• URLs containing a Unicode-format Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) are now properly redirected

Changed:

• Tab Groups (Panorama) feature removed
• [UPDATE: 3/23/2016] Firefox Hello v1.1 improvements:
  • We’ve made it easier to connect with others in FIrefox Hello by sharing a link to your Hello room using email or Facebook direct messaging
  • You can also easily stop and restart tab sharing whenever you want
  • Once you connect, you’ll see your room participants’ mouse cursor and they’ll see yours

Developer:

• Ability to filter snapshot output in memory tool
• Fine tune animations by changing the playback rate of animations in the animation-inspector’s timeline
• DOMContentLoaded and load events shown in the network monitor timeline
• Added Negative url filtering for the network monitor
• Support for diffing heap snapshots added to the memory tool
• Inspector search now matches results from all content in the page, including subframes
• List of animated properties and keyframes is now displayed when clicking on an animation in the animation-inspector’s timeline

html5:

• Push API support, part of Progressive Web Applications
• Support delivery of a Content Security Policy (CSP) via a meta tag
• ES6 Classes

unresolved:

• On-screen keyboard support was temporarily turned off for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1
• Trusteer Rapport is severely impacting the stability of Firefox

Download: Firefox 45.0.1 for Windows | Firefox 64-bit | 43 MB
Download: Firefox 45.0.1 for Linux | 49.4 MB
Download: Firefox 45.0.1 for MacOS | 80 MB