14 DAY TRIAL // As expected, Mozilla had the pleasure of unveiling today, March 31, the Mozilla Firefox 37.0 web browser for all supported computer operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, while pushing Firefox 40 to the nightly (unstable channel), Firefox 39.0 to the Dev channel, and Firefox 38.0 to the Beta channel.
While Softpedia was the first to announce earlier today the immediate availability for download of the final builds of Mozilla Firefox 37.0 for the aforementioned platforms, the latest version of the acclaimed web browser can now be officially downloaded from its official website, and has been pushed to users worldwide through the built-in updater component.
What’s new for users in Mozilla Firefox 37.0
For end-users, Mozilla Firefox 37.0 is not an exciting release, as it introduces an all-new user rating system, called Heartbeat, that allows them to more easily send feedback to Mozilla about their web browser, sets the Yandex search engine by default when using the Turkish locale, and it now uses secure HTTP connections when searching with Bing.
The new version also improves protection against website impersonation by implementing a OneCRL centralized certificate revocation. Bettes HTTP/2 support has been added to encrypt the HTTP traffic if the server supports the new protocol, WebGL rendering has been greatly improved on the Windows platform, and IndexedDB is now accessible from worker threads.
Native HTML5 video playback on YouTube and other changes
It appears the infamous subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API has been finally implemented to allow native HTML5 video playback on the YouTube website. However, please note that Mac and Linux OSes support only 720p at the moment. Support for CSS display:contents has been added, as well as a new SDP/JSEP implementation in WebRTC.
Among other changes implemented in the new Mozilla Firefox 37.0 web browser, we can mention extended SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) error reporting for reporting non-certificate errors, deactivation of insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions for website security, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) removal for improved TSL and certificate communication.
What’s new for developers in Mozilla Firefox 37.0
For developers, Mozilla Firefox 37.0 brings all-new Inspector animations panel that allow them to easily control element animations when developing websites, a brand-new Security Panel that has been included in the Network Panel, support for about:// and chrome:// URIs in the Debugger panel, as well as support for logging weak ciphers to the Web Console component.
In addition, it is now possible to debug tabs opened in the Safari for iOS, Google Chrome for Android, and Google Chrome for Desktop web browsers. You can find more details about Mozilla Firefox 37.0 in the official release notes. In the meantime, you can update to the new version directly from the “About Firefox” dialog on Mac and Windows, or check your software repositories for the new Firefox version if you’re running Linux (hint: it’s already in Arch Linux).