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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/firefox
From: Ryo ONODERA
Date: 2020-07-01 15:01:01
Message id: 20200701130102.0A19AFB28@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
firefox: Update to 78.0
* Some dependency changes.
* Wayland and webcam may not work.
Changelog: New
The Protections Dashboard includes consolidated reports about
tracking protection, data breaches, and password management.
New features let you:
Track how many breaches you’ve resolved right from the
dashboard
See if any of your saved passwords may have been exposed
in a data breach
To view your dashboard, type about:protections into the address
bar, or select “Protections Dashboard” from the main menu.
Because we know people try to fix problems by reinstalling
Firefox when a simple refresh is more likely to solve the issue,
we’ve added a Refresh button to the Uninstaller.
With this release, your screen saver will no longer interrupt
WebRTC calls on Firefox, making conference and video calling
in Firefox better.
We’ve rolled out WebRender to Windows users with Intel GPUs,
bringing improved graphics performance to an even larger
audience.
Firefox 78 is also our Extended Support Release (ESR), where
the changes made over the course of the previous 10 releases
will now roll out to our ESR users. Some of the highlights are:
Kiosk mode
Client certificates
Service Worker and Push APIs are now enabled
The Block Autoplay feature is enabled
Picture-in-picture support
View and manage web certificates in about:certificate
Pocket recommendations, featuring some of the best stories on
the web, will now appear on the Firefox new tab for 100% of
our users in the UK. If you don’t see them, you can turn on
Pocket articles in your new tab, follow these steps.
Fixed
Various security fixes.
We fixed bugs in the search results quality composition and
improved search result texts based on recommendations by our
partners.
Changed
The minimal system requirements on Linux have been updated.
Firefox now needs GNU libc 2.17, libstdc++ 4.8.1 and GTK+ 3.14
or newer versions.
As part of our ongoing effort to deprecate obsolete cryptography,
we have disabled all remaining DHE-based TLS ciphersuites by
default.
To mitigate web compatibility issues from disabling DHE-based
TLS ciphersuites, Firefox 78 enables two more AES-GCM
SHA2-based ciphersuites.
We have disabled TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 to improve your website
connections. Sites that don't support TLS version 1.2 will now
show an error page.
The context menu (accessed by right clicking on a tab) lets
you undo multiple tab closings with a single click and places
Close Tabs to the Right and Close Other Tabs in a submenu.
A number of accessibility improvements have been made with this
release.
When using the JAWS screen reader, pressing the down arrow
in an HTML input control with a datalist no longer incorrectly
moves the cursor to the next element after the input control.
Screen readers no longer severely lag or freeze when focusing
the microphone/camera/screen sharing indicator.
Large tables with thousands of rows now load much faster
for screen reader users.
Text input controls with custom styling now correctly show
the focus outline when appropriate.
Screen readers no longer sometimes incorrectly switch to
document browsing mode unexpectedly when the user enters
the main Developer Tools window.
We reduced a number of animations such as tab hover, search
bar expansion, and others to reduce motion for users with
migraines and epilepsy.
Enterprise
Enable support for client certificates stored on macOS and
Windows by setting the experimental preference
security.osclientcerts.autoload to true.
New policies allow you to configure application handlers,
disable picture in picture, and require a master password,
which will be renamed to ‘primary password’ in future releases.
More details in the Firefox for Enterprise 78 release notes
Security fixes:
Not available yet.
Files: