Aggiornamento Firefox 52.0 per Mac, Windows e Linux

Rilasciato l'aggiornamento alla versione 52.0 del noto browser Firefox.

A questo link sono pubblicate le note di rilascio di questa nuova versione con l'elenco di tutte le novità, in particolare:

Nuovo

• Added support for WebAssembly, an emerging standard that brings near-native performance to Web-based games, apps, and software libraries without the use of plugins.
• Added automatic captive portal detection, for easier access to Wi-Fi hotspots. When accessing the Internet via a captive portal, Firefox will alert users and open the portal login page in a new tab.
• Implemented the Strict Secure Cookies specification which forbids insecure HTTP sites from setting cookies with the "secure" attribute. In some cases, this will prevent an insecure site from setting a cookie with the same name as an existing "secure" cookie from the same base domain.
• Added user warnings for non-secure HTTP pages with logins. Firefox now displays a “This connection is not secure” message when users click into the username and password fields on pages that don’t use HTTPS.
• Enhanced Sync to allow users to send and open tabs from one device to another.

Risolto

• Various security fixes
• Improved text input for third-party keyboard layouts on Windows. This will address some keyboard layouts that
  
  • have chained dead keys
  • input two or more characters with a non-printable key or a dead key sequence
  • input a character even when a dead key sequence failed to compose a character

Modificato

• Removed support for Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) plugins other than Flash. Silverlight, Java, Acrobat and the like are no longer supported.
• Improved experience for downloads:
  
  • Notification in the toolbar when a download fails
  • Quick access to five most recent downloads rather than three
  • Larger buttons for canceling and restarting downloads
• Removed Battery Status API to reduce fingerprinting of users by trackers
• When not using Direct2D on Windows, Skia is used for content rendering
• Migrated Firefox users on Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems to the extended support release (ESR) version of Firefox.
• Display (but allow users to override) an “Untrusted Connection” error when encountering SHA-1 certificates that chain up to a root certificate included in Mozilla’s CA Certificate Program. (Note: Firefox continues to permit SHA-1 certificates that chain to manually imported root certificates.) Read more about the Mozilla Security Team’s plans to deprecate SHA-1

Sviluppatori

• Enabled CSS Grid Layout, opening up a world of new possibilities for graphic design
• Improved security for screen sharing, which now shows a preview and no longer requires a whitelisted domain
• Redesigned Responsive Design Mode to include device selection, network throttling, and more

Informazioni per sviluppatori

Non risolto

• Google Hangouts temporarily won't work

A questo link è pubblicato l'elenco di tutti i bugfix.

Link diretto per il download della versione 52.0 per Windows e per Windows a 64 bit in italiano (Richiede un PC con Windows XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1, Vista, 7, 8 o 10, processore Pentium 4 o superiore con supporto SSE2, 512MB di RAM e 200MB di spazio libero su disco rigido)

Link diretto per il download della versione 52.0 per Macintosh in italiano (Richiede Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 o 10.12, processore Intel x86, 512 MB di RAM e 200 MB di spazio libero su disco rigido)

Link diretto per il download della versione 52.0 per Linux e per Linux a 64 bit in italiano (Sono richieste le seguenti librerie o pacchetti: GTK+ 2.18, GLib 2.22, Pango 1.14, X.Org 1.0 o superiore - raccomandata 1.7 - libstdc++ 4.3 o versioni superiori. Si raccomandano, inoltre, le seguenti librerie o pacchetti: NetworkManager 0.7, DBus 1.0, HAL 0.5.8, GNOME 2.16 o versioni superiori)