Firefox 37 was released on March 31st, 2015. This article lists key changes that are useful not only for web developers, but also Firefox and Gecko developers as well as add-on developers.
Changes for Web developers
Developer Tools
Highlights:
- Security panel in the Network Monitor
- Animations panel in the Page Inspector
- Support for running a custom build step in WebIDE
All devtools bugs fixed between Firefox 36 and Firefox 37.
CSS
display
:
contents
is now activated by default (bug 1102374 and bug 1105369).- CSS multi-column layout is now working on element with
display
:
table-caption
(bug 1109571). - Relative positioning (
position
:
relative
) of table cells has been implemented (bug 35168). - The quirks mode behavior of
empty-cells
has been removed: it now defaults toshow
like in standard mode (bug 1020400).
HTML
- The value
<a rel="noreferrer">
now also works when the link is opened in new tab (bug 1031264). - The
'.'
followed by the extension is now allowed in<input accept>
: when used, a file selector filters with this given extension to be proposed to the user (bug 826176).
JavaScript
- The
Map
,Set
,WeakMap
andWeakSet
constructors now ignore null iterable (bug 1092538). - The
Map
,Set
,WeakMap
andWeakSet
constructors now supports monkey-patchedprototype.set
orprototype.add
(bug 804279). - The Non-standard
String.prototype.quote()
method has been removed (bug 1103181). - The
RegExp.prototype.flags
property has been implemented (bug 1108467). - Several
Array
methods have been implemented for typed arrays as well:- The
every()
andsome()
methods (bug 1116390). - The
find()
andfindIndex()
methods (bug 1078975). - The
fill()
method (bug 1113722). - The
indexOf()
andlastIndexOf()
methods (bug 1107601). - The
join()
method (bug 1115817). - The
reduce()
andreduceRight()
methods (bug 1117350). - The
reverse()
method (bug 1111516). - The
keys()
,values()
, andentries()
methods (bug 1119217).
- The
- ES2015 Proxy
enumerate
trap is implemented (bug 783829). - The
configurable
attribute of theFunction.length
property is nowtrue
per the ES2015 specification (bug 911142). - The development of ParallelJS (PJS) has been discontinued due to the limited future prospects, little attention and code complexity. The experimental implementation that had been enabled only on the Nightly channel, including the
Array.prototype.mapPar
,filterPar
andreducePar
methods, has been completely removed.
Interfaces/APIs/DOM
- The
StereoPannerNode
Web Audio node has been implemented (bug 1100349). - The
Promise
-based version ofOfflineAudioContext
is now available (bug 1087944). - The experimental, not activated by default, implementation of Service Workers progresses:
ServiceWorkerGlobalScope.update()
has been implemented bug 1065366. - The IndexedDB API can now be used in Web workers (bug 701634).
- Our experimental implementation of WebGL 2.0 is going forward!
- The
WebGL2RenderingContext.getBufferSubData()
method has been implemented to provide access to Buffer Objects (bug 1048731).
- The
- In keeping with the evolving WebRTC specification, we have deprecated
RTCIceServer.url
in favor ofRTCIceServer.urls
, which lets you specify more than one URL for a given ICE server. - Some key names of
KeyboardEvent.key
are changed for conforming the latest DOM Level 3 Events spec. See the tables ofKeyboardEvent.key
values in MDN. The green cells are new values. And purple values are still unstable. Be careful if you use them (meta bug for these changes is bug 900372). - The
Console
interface is now working onServiceWorker
andSharedWorker
. It was previously available but not working (bug 1058644). - The value of
KeyboardEvent.key
was incorrectly being reported as"RomanCharacters"
when the 英数 (Eisu) key was pressed. Now it correctly returns"Eisu"
.
MathML
No change.
SVG
- SVG2's
<marker orient="auto-start-reverse">
has been implemented (bug 1107584).
Audio/Video
No change.
Networking
- WebSockets now supports the
permessage
compression method, if the server does support it (bug 792831).
Security
- The usage of weak protocols or ciphers, like SSL 3.0 and RC4, are now logged in the console, to warn sites that are using it (bug 1092835).
- The CSP 1.1
referrer
directive is now supported (bug 965727).
Changes for add-on and Mozilla developers
Add-on SDK
No change.
XUL
No change.
See also
Older versions
- Firefox 36 for developers
- Firefox 35 for developers
- Firefox 34 for developers
- Firefox 33 for developers
- Firefox 32 for developers
- Firefox 31 for developers
- Firefox 30 for developers
- Firefox 29 for developers
- Firefox 28 for developers
- Firefox 27 for developers
- Firefox 26 for developers
- Firefox 25 for developers
- Firefox 24 for developers
- Firefox 23 for developers
- Firefox 22 for developers
- Firefox 21 for developers
- Firefox 20 for developers
- Firefox 19 for developers
- Firefox 18 for developers
- Firefox 17 for developers
- Firefox 16 for developers
- Firefox 15 for developers
- Firefox 14 for developers
- Firefox 13 for developers
- Firefox 12 for developers
- Firefox 11 for developers
- Firefox 10 for developers
- Firefox 9 for developers
- Firefox 8 for developers
- Firefox 7 for developers
- Firefox 6 for developers
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