Firefox 62 for developers

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 62 that will affect developers. Firefox 62 is the current Beta version of Firefox, and will ship on September 5, 2018.

Changes for web developers

Developer tools

  • You now have four options for the location of the Developer Tools. In addition to the default location on the bottom of the window, you can choose to locate the tools on either the left or right sides of the main window or in a separate window.
  • You can now split the Rules view out into its own pane, separate from the other tabs on the CSS pane. See Page inspector 3-pane mode (en-US) for more details.
  • The Grid inspector has updated features, and all new documentation — see CSS Grid Inspector: Examine grid layouts (en-US).
  • The Accessibility inspector has had a couple of minor updates:
    • It no longer exposes the help property, which isn't properly implemented in Gecko (Firefox bug 1467643).
    • The keyboardShortcut property now correctly exposes any keyboard shortcut available to activate the currently inspected node (Firefox bug 1467381).

HTML

没有变化。

CSS

SVG

No changes.

JavaScript

APIs

New APIs

DOM

DOM events

No changes.

Service workers

No changes.

Media, Web Audio, and WebRTC

  • The "media.autoplay.enabled" preference now controls automatic playback of both audio and video media, instead of just video media (Firefox bug 1413098).
  • The ChannelSplitterNode (en-US) has been fixed to correctly default to having 6 channels with the channelInterpretation set to "discrete" and the channelCountMode set to "explicit" per the specification (Firefox bug 1456265).

Canvas and WebGL

No changes.

CSSOM

HTTP

Security

No changes.

Plugins

No changes.

Other

No changes.

Removals from the web platform

HTML

No changes.

CSS

No changes.

APIs

No changes.

SVG

No changes.

Other

No changes.

Changes for add-on and Mozilla developers

WebExtensions

API changes

Manifest changes

Theme changes

  • New tab_background_separator property of the theme (en-US) manifest key enables extensions to change the color of the tab separator.

Other changes

See also

  • Site compatibility for Firefox 62

Older versions