Firefox Release Notes

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.

29.0 Firefox Release

April 29, 2014

Version 29.0, first offered to Release channel users on April 29, 2014

We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

New

  • Significant new customization mode makes it easy to personalize your Web experience to access the features you use the most (learn more)

  • A new, easy to access menu sits in the right hand corner of Firefox and includes popular browser controls

  • Sleek new tabs provide an overall smoother look and fade into the background when not active

  • An interactive onboarding tour to guide users through the new Firefox changes

  • The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account (learn more)

  • Gamepad API finalized and enabled

  • HTTPS used for Yahoo Searches performed in en-US locale

  • Malay [ma] locale added

Fixed

Changed

  • Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab

Developer

  • Developer Information

  • 'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented (learn more)

  • Console object available in Web Workers (learn more)

  • Promises enabled by default (learn more)

  • SharedWorker enabled by default

  • <input type="number"> implemented and enabled

  • <input type="color"> implemented and enabled

  • Enabled ECMAScript Internationalization API

  • Add-on bar has been removed, content moved to navigation bar

  • Implemented URLSearchParams from the URL specification (see MDN for details )

Unresolved

  • Mac OS X: cmd-L no longer opens a new window when no window is available (1008793)

  • Text Rendering Issues on Windows 7 with Platform Update KB2670838 (MSIE 10 Prerequisite) or on Windows 8.1 has a workaround (see 812695)

  • Without affecting security, after restoring your session, Extended Validation Certificates might not display (See 995801)

  • Slow shut downs lead to 'Firefox is already running' warning (see 966469 and 985655)

  • Local (file://) links don't work (995943)

  • Exit is not always completed when "clear history when Firefox closes" is enabled (1005487)

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