Firefox 32 for developers

Highlights:

• Web Audio Editor
• Code completion and inline documentation in Scratchpad]
• User agent styles in the Inspector's Rules view
• Element picker button has moved
• Node dimensions added to the Inspector's infobar
• Full page screenshot button added
• HiDPI images added to the tools
• Nodes that have display:none are shown differently in the Inspector

All devtools bugs fixed between Firefox 31 and Firefox 32.

• Enabled mix-blend-mode by default (Firefox bug 952643).
• Enabled position:sticky by default in release builds (only enabled on Nightly and Aurora before) (Firefox bug 916315).
• Implemented box-decoration-break and removed the non-standard -moz-background-inline-policy (Firefox bug 613659).
• Allowed flex-grow and flex-shrink to transition between zero and nonzero values, like 'flex-grow: 0.6'(Firefox bug 996945).

• Experimentally implemented, behind a pref, <img> srcset property, To activate it set dom.image.srcset.enable to true (Firefox bug 870021).
• id and class are now true global attributes and also apply to XML elements, in a namespace or not (Firefox bug 741295).

• The following new ECMAScript 2015 built-in methods got implemented:

  • Array.from() (Firefox bug 904723),
  • Array.prototype.copyWithin() (Firefox bug 934423),
  • Number.isSafeInteger() (Firefox bug 1003764).

• The Navigator.languages property and languagechange event have been implemented (Firefox bug 889335).
• The Navigator.vibrate() method behavior has been adapted to the latest specification: too long vibrations are now truncated (Firefox bug 1014581).
• The KeyboardEvent.getModifierState() and MouseEvent.getModifierState() methods have been extended to support the Accel virtual modifier (Firefox bug 1009388).
• The KeyboardEvent.code property have been experimentally implemented: it is disabled on release build (Firefox bug 865649).
• Scoped selectors for Document.querySelector() and Document.querySelectorAll(), for example querySelector(":scope > li") have been implemented (Firefox bug 528456).
• The experimental implementation of the Document.timeline interface, related to the Web Animation API, has been added (Firefox bug 998246). It is controlled by layout.web-animations.api.enabled preference, enabled only on Nightly and Aurora for the moment.
• The Data Store API has been made available to Web Workers (Firefox bug 949325). It still is only activated for certified applications.
• The ServiceWorker InstallPhaseEvent and InstallEvent interfaces have been implemented (Firefox bug 967264).
• The MSISDN Verification API, only activated for privileged apps, has been added (Firefox bug 988469).
• The Gamepad API is now supported on Firefox for Android (Firefox bug 852935).
• To match the spec and the evolution of the CSS syntax, minor changes have been done to CSS.escape(). The identifier now can begins with '--' and the second dash must not be escaped. Also vendor identifier are no more escaped. (Firefox bug 1008719)
• To complete our Hit Regions implementation, MouseEvent.region has been implemented (Firefox bug 979692).
• The CanvasRenderingContext2D.drawFocusIfNeeded() method is now enabled by default (Firefox bug 1004579).
• The Navigator.doNotTrack properties now returns '1' or '0', reflecting the HTTP value, instead of 'yes' or 'no' (Firefox bug 887703).
• XMLHttpRequest.responseURL was implemented (Firefox bug 998076)..

• Add support for the <menclose> notation phasorangle.

No change.

• New constraints for WebRTC's getUserMedia(), width, height, and framerate, have been added, to limit stream dimensions and frame rate (Firefox bug 907352):

  js

  {
    mandatory: {
      width: { min: 640 },
      height: { min: 480 },
    },
    optional: [
      { width: 650 },
      { width: { min: 650 }},
      { frameRate: 60 },
      { width: { max: 800 }},
    ]
  }
  

• WebRTC methods which previously used callback functions as input parameters are now also available using JavaScript promises.

No change.

• Privileged code now gets Xray vision for JavaScript Object and Array instances.

Xray vision is now applied to JavaScript objects that are not themselves DOM objects: Xrays for JavaScript objects.

A getDataDirectory() method has been added to Addon instances. This method returns the preferred location, within the current profile, for add-ons to store data.

Highlights

• Added exclude option to PageMod.
• Added anonymous option to Request.
• Add-on Debugger now includes a Console and a Scratchpad.

Details

GitHub commits made between Firefox 31 and Firefox 32. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

Bugs fixed between Firefox 31 and Firefox 32. This will not include any uplifts made after this release entered Aurora.

• The nsIUDPSocket interface now provides multicast support through the addition of the new nsIUDPSocket.multicastLoopback, nsIUDPSocket.multicastInterface, and nsIUDPSocket.multicastInterfaceAddr attributes, as well as the nsIUDPSocket.joinMulticast() and nsIUDPSocket.leaveMulticast() methods.