Firefox 40 for developers

Highlights:

• Improvements to the Animations view
• Get help from MDN for CSS property syntax
• Edit filters in the Page Inspector
• Web Console now shows messages from workers
• Filter requests by URL in the Network Monitor
• Many new context menu options in the Network Monitor
• Show when network resources are fetched from the browser cache
• Filter rules in the Page Inspector

More:

• Break at debugger; statements in unnamed eval sources
• Copy URL/Open in New Tab context menu items for Debugger source list pane
• console.dirxml support in the Web Console
• Style Editor: "Open Link In New Tab" item added to stylesheet list
• Inspector selector search now includes class/id results even without css prefix
• Tooltips in box-model view saying which CSS rule caused the value
• Switch between color unit format in the Inspector using Shift+click
• Implement "Scroll Into View" menu item for the Inspector
• Linkify url/id/resource attributes in the Inspector
• IP address tooltip in the Network Monitor

Everything: all devtools bugs fixed between Firefox 39 and Firefox 40.

• Prefixed rules (-moz-) for text-decoration-color, text-decoration-line, and text-decoration-style have been removed (Firefox bug 1097922).
• The property text-align now supports the match-parent value (Firefox bug 645642).
• In Quirks Mode, empty-cells now defaults to show, like in standard mode (Firefox bug 1020400).
• The -moz-orient non-standard property, used to style <meter> and <progress> element has been adapted for vertical writing-modes: the value auto has been dropped and the values inline and block added, with inline being the new default value (Firefox bug 1028716).
• The property font-size-adjust has been fixed so that 0 is treated as a multiplier (leading to a 0 height for the font, hence hiding it) instead of the none value (leading to no adjustment, or a 1.0 value) (Firefox bug 1144885).
• Fix text-overflow doesn't work in vertical writing mode (Firefox bug 1117227).

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• Unreachable code after return statement (including unreachable expression after semicolon-less return statements) will now show a warning in the console (Firefox bug 1005110, Firefox bug 1151931).
• Symbol.match has been added (Firefox bug 1054755).
• Passing an object which has a property named Symbol.match with a truthy value to String.prototype.startsWith, String.prototype.endsWith, and String.prototype.contains now throws a TypeError (Firefox bug 1054755).
• RegExp function returns pattern itself if called without new and pattern object has a property named Symbol.match with a truthy value, and the pattern object's constructor property equals to RegExp function. (Firefox bug 1147817).
• Support for the non-standard JS1.7 destructuring for-in has been dropped (Firefox bug 1083498).
• Non-standard initializer expressions in for...in loops are now ignored and will present a warning in the console. (Firefox bug 748550 and Firefox bug 1164741).
• \u{xxxxxx} Unicode code point escapes have been added (Firefox bug 320500).
• String.prototype.contains has been replaced with String.prototype.includes, String.prototype.contains is kept as an alias (Firefox bug 1102219).
• If the DataView constructor is called as a function without the new operator, a TypeError is now thrown as per the ES2015 specification.
• An issue regressed in Firefox 21, where proxified arrays without the get trap were not working properly, has been fixed. If the get trap in a Proxy was not defined, Array.length returned 0 and the set trap didn't get called. A workaround was to add the get trap even if was not necessary in your code. This issue has been fixed now (Firefox bug 895223).
• WeakMap.prototype and WeakSet.prototype have been updated to be just ordinary objects, per ES2015 specification (Firefox bug 1055473).

New APIs

• The Push API has been experimentally implemented (Firefox bug 1038811). Controlled by the services.push.enabled pref, it is disabled by default.

Web Animations API

Improvement in our experimental Web Animations implementation, mostly to match latest spec changes:

• AnimationPlayer.currentTime now can also be set (Firefox bug 1072037).
• Animatable.getAnimationPlayers(), available on Element has been renamed to Element.getAnimations() (Firefox bug 1145246).
• Animation and AnimationEffect have been merged into the newly created KeyframeEffectReadOnly (Firefox bug 1153734).
• AnimationPlayer has been renamed to Animation (Firefox bug 1154615).
• AnimationTimeline is now an abstract class, with DocumentTimeline its only implementation (Firefox bug 1152171).

CSSOM

• The CSS Font Loading API is now enabled by default in Nightly and Developer Edition releases (Firefox bug 1088437). It is still deactivated by default in Beta and Release browsers.
• The CSSCharsetRule interface has been removed and such objects are no longer available in CSSOM (Firefox bug 1148694). This matches the spec (recently adapted) and Chrome behavior.

WebRTC

• WebRTC: the negotiationneeded event is now also sent for initial negotiations, not only for re-negotiations (Firefox bug 1149838).

DOM & HTML DOM

• When unable to parse the srcset, the HTMLImageElement.currentSrc method doesn't return null anymore but "", as requested by the latest specification (Firefox bug 1139560).
• Like for images, Firefox now throttles Window.requestAnimationFrame() for non-visible <iframe> (Firefox bug 1145439).
• Navigator.taintEnabled is no longer available for Web workers (Firefox bug 1154878).

Web Audio API

New extensions to the Web Audio API:

• The AudioContext.state and AudioContext.onstatechange properties as well as the methods AudioContext.suspend(), AudioContext.resume(), and AudioContext.close() have been added (Firefox bug 1094764).
• AudioBufferSourceNode now implements the AudioBufferSourceNode.detune k-rate attribute (Firefox bug 1153783).

Web Workers

• Slight improvement in our Service Worker API: the update() method has been moved from ServiceWorkerGlobalScope to ServiceWorkerRegistration (Firefox bug 1131350).
• ServiceWorkerRegistration is now available in Web workers (Firefox bug 1131327).
• DataStore is now available in Web workers (Firefox bug 916196).

IndexedDB

• IDBTransaction are now non-durable by default (Firefox bug 1112702). This favors performance over reliability and matches what other browsers are doing. For more information, read our durability definition.

Dev Tools

• The property console.timeStamp() has been added (Firefox bug 922221).

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• Using an asterisk (*) in a CSP does not include the schemes data:, blob: or :filesystem anymore when matching source expressions. So those schemes now need to be explicitly defined within the related header to match the CSP (Firefox bug 1086999).

• It is no longer possible to create transparent top-level windows Firefox bug 1162649.

• Dict.jsm has been removed Firefox bug 1123309. Use Map instead.

• The nsIClassInfo.implementationLanguage attribute has been removed, along with the nsClassInfo::GetImplementationLanguage() function.

• The following XPCOM interfaces have been removed; you should use the standard HTML interfaces instead:

  • nsIDOMHTMLBRElement
  • nsIDOMDivElement
  • nsIDOMHTMLHeadingElement
  • nsIDOMHTMLTableCaptionElement
  • nsIDOMHTMLTableElement
  • nsIDOMHTMLTitleElement

• Places Keywords API has been deprecated and will be removed soon (Firefox bug 1140395).
• The automated testing system now supports skipping individual test functions. See running conditional tests in XPCShell testing.