* Support for importing payment methods saved in Chrome-based browser
* Hardware video decoding is now enabled for Intel GPUs on Linux
* The Tab Manager dropdown now features close buttons, so tabs
can be closed more quickly
* Streamlined the user interface for importing data in from other browsers
* Users without platform support for H264 video decoding can now
fallback to Cisco's OpenH264 plugin for playback.
* Undo and redo are now available in Password fields
* Changed: On Linux, middle clicks on the new tab button will
now open the xclipboard contents in the new tab. If the
xclipboard content is a URL then that URL is opened, any
other text is opened with your default search provider.
* Changed: For users with a Firefox Colorways built-in theme,
the theme will be automatically migrated to the same theme
hosted on addons.mozilla.org for Firefox profiles that have
disabled add-ons auto-updates. This will allow users to keep
their Colorways theme when they are later removed from
Firefox installer files.
* Changed: Certain Firefox users may come across a message in
the extensions panel indicating that their add-ons are not
allowed on the site currently open. We have introduced a new
back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by
Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons,
including security concerns.
* HTML5: The builtin editor now behaves similarly to other
browsers with `contenteditable` and `designMode` when
splitting a node, e.g. typing Enter to split a paragraph, and
also when joining two nodes, e.g. typing Backspace at the
start of a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=1071
* supports the new AVIF image format
* PDF viewer now supports filling more forms (XFA-based forms)
* now blocks downloads that rely on insecure connections,
protecting against potentially malicious or unsafe downloads
* Improved web compatibility for privacy protections with SmartBlock 3.0
* Introducing a new referrer tracking protection in Strict Tracking
Protection and Private Browsing
* TLS ciphersuites that use 3DES have been disabled. Such
ciphersuites can only be enabled when deprecated versions of
TLS are also enabled
* The download panel now follows the Firefox visual styles
MFSA 2021-43 (bsc#1191332)
* CVE-2021-38496 (bmo#1725335)
Use-after-free in MessageTask
* CVE-2021-38497 (bmo#1726621)
Validation message could have been overlaid on another origin
* CVE-2021-38498 (bmo#1729642)
Use-after-free of nsLanguageAtomService object
* CVE-2021-32810 (bmo#1729813)
https://github.com/crossbeam-rs/crossbeam/security/advisories/GHSA-pqqp-xmhj-wgcw)
Data race in crossbeam-deque
* CVE-2021-38500 (bmo#1725854, bmo#1728321)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93, Firefox ESR 78.15,
and Firefox ESR 91.2
* CVE-2021-38501 (bmo#1685354, bmo#1715755, bmo#1723176)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93 and Firefox ESR 91.2
* CVE-2021-38499 (bmo#1667102, bmo#1723170, bmo#1725356, bmo#1727364)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93
- removed obsolete mozilla-bmo1708709.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=936
* New: PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files.
Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other
interactive features
* New: Print updates: Margin units are now localized
* New: Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported
on Linux
* New: To protect against cross-site privacy leaks, Firefox now
isolates window.name data to the website that created it.
Learn more
* Changed: Firefox will not prompt for access to your
microphone or camera if you’ve already granted access to the
same device on the same site in the same tab within the past
50 seconds. This new grace period reduces the number of times
you’re prompted to grant device access
* Changed: The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the
Page Actions menu in the url bar. To take a screenshot,
right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a
screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the
Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize…
* Changed: FTP support has been disabled, and its full removal
is planned for an upcoming release. Addressing this security
risk reduces the likelihood of an attack while also removing
support for a non-encrypted protocol
* Developer: Introduced a new toggle button in the Network
panel for switching between JSON formatted HTTP response and
raw data (as received over the wire).
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* Enterprise: Various bug fixes and new policies have been
implemented in the latest version of Firefox. You can see
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=904
- do not use XINPUT2 for the moment until Plasma 5.19.3 has landed
(boo#1173993)
- rework langpack integration (boo#1173991)
* ship XPIs instead of directories
* allow addon sideloading
* mark signatures for langpacks non-mandatory
* do not autodisable user profile scopes
* Google API key is not usable for geolocation service
- Mozilla Firefox 78.0.2
* Fixed an accessibility regression in reader mode (bmo#1650922)
* Made the address bar more resilient to data corruption in the
user profile (bmo#1649981)
* Fixed a regression opening certain external applications (bmo#1650162)
MFSA 2020-28
* CVE pending (bmo#1644076)
X-Frame-Options bypass using object or embed tags
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=839
* Fixed an issue which could cause installed search engines to not
be visible when upgrading from a previous release.
- enable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 for TW (boo#1173320)
* Protections Dashboard (about:protections)
* WebRTC not interrupted by screensaver anymore
* disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by default
MFSA 2020-24 (bsc#1173576)
* CVE-2020-12415 (bmo#1586630)
AppCache manifest poisoning due to url encoded character processing
* CVE-2020-12416 (bmo#1639734)
Use-after-free in WebRTC VideoBroadcaster
* CVE-2020-12417 (bmo#1640737)
Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags
on ARM64
* CVE-2020-12418 (bmo#1641303)
Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object
* CVE-2020-12419 (bmo#1643874)
Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner
* CVE-2020-12420 (bmo#1643437)
Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server
* CVE-2020-12402 (bmo#1631597)
RSA Key Generation vulnerable to side-channel attack
* CVE-2020-12421 (bmo#1308251)
Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust
rules as software updates
* CVE-2020-12422 (bmo#1450353)
Integer overflow in nsJPEGEncoder::emptyOutputBuffer
* CVE-2020-12423 (bmo#1642400)
DLL Hijacking due to searching %PATH% for a library
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=835
* Resolved problems connecting to the RBC Royal Bank website
(bmo#1613943)
* Fixed Firefox unexpectedly exiting when leaving Print Preview mode
(bmo#1611133)
* Fixed crashes when playing encrypted content on some Linux systems
(bmo#1614535)
- start in wayland mode when running under wayland session
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=804
- Mozilla Firefox 72.0
* block fingerprinting scripts by default
* new notification pop-ups
* Picture-in-picture video
MFSA 2020-01
* CVE-2019-17016 (bmo#1599181)
Bypass of @namespace CSS sanitization during pasting
* CVE-2019-17017 (bmo#1603055)
Type Confusion in XPCVariant.cpp
* CVE-2019-17020 (bmo#1597645)
Content Security Policy not applied to XSL stylesheets applied
to XML documents
* CVE-2019-17022 (bmo#1602843)
CSS sanitization does not escape HTML tags
* CVE-2019-17023 (bmo#1590001) (fixed in NSS FIXME)
NSS may negotiate TLS 1.2 or below after a TLS 1.3
HelloRetryRequest had been sent
* CVE-2019-17024 (bmo#1507180,bmo#1595470,bmo#1598605,bmo#1601826)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72 and Firefox ESR 68.4
* CVE-2019-17025 (bmo#1328295,bmo#1328300,bmo#1590447,bmo#1590965
bmo#1595692,bmo#1597321,bmo#1597481)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 72
- update create-tar.sh to skip compare-locales
- requires NSPR 4.24 and NSS 3.48
- removed usage of browser-plugins convention for NPAPI plugins
from start wrapper and changed the RPM macro to the
/usr/$LIB/mozilla/plugins location (boo#1160302)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=793
* Fix an issue with addons when using a path containing non-ascii
characters (bmo#1389160)
* Fix file uploads to some websites, including YouTube (bmo#1383518)
- fix Google API key build integration
- add mozilla-ucontext.patch to fix Tumbleweed build
- do not enable XINPUT2 for now (boo#1053959)
- update to Firefox 55.0.1
* Fix a regression the tab restoration process (bmo#1388160)
* Fix a problem causing What's new pages not to be displayed (bmo#1386224)
* Fix a rendering issue with some PKCS#11 libraries (bmo#1388370)
* Disable the predictor prefetch (bmo#1388160)
- update to Firefox 55.0 (boo#1052829)
* Browsing sessions with a high number of tabs are now restored
in an instant
* Sidebar (bookmarks, history, synced tabs) can now be moved to
the right edge of the window
* Fine-tune your browser performance from the Preferences/Options page.
* Make screenshots of webpages, and save them locally or upload
them to the cloud. This feature will undergo A/B testing and
will not be visible for some users.
* Added Belarusian (be) locale
* Simplify print jobs from within print preview
* Use virtual reality devices with the web with the introduction
of WebVR
* Search suggestions are now enabled by default for users who
haven't explicitly opted-out
* Search with any installed search engine directly from the
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=601
- license change from tri license to MPL-2.0
- fix crashreporter restart option (bmo#762780)
- reenabled mozilla-yarr-pcre.patch to fix build for PPC
- require NSS 3.13.5
- remove mozjs pacrunner obsoletes again for now
- adopted mozilla-prefer_plugin_pref.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/mozilla:Factory/MozillaFirefox?expand=0&rev=284
