Firefox 84 for developers

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 84 that will affect developers. Firefox 84 was released on December 15, 2020.

Note: See also And now for … Firefox 84 on Mozilla Hacks.

Changes for web developers

Developer Tools

HTML

No changes.

CSS

Removals

  • We've removed the proprietary -moz-default-appearance property values scrollbar-small (scrollbar-width: thin is used instead) and scrollbar (macOS only; scrollbar-horizontal and scrollbar-vertical are used instead) (Firefox bug 1673132).

JavaScript

HTTP

No changes.

Security

  • Firefox now ensures that localhost URLs — such as http://localhost/ and http://dev.localhost/ — refer to the local host's loopback interface (e.g. http://127.0.0.1). As a result, resources loaded from localhost are now assumed to have been delivered securely (see Secure contexts), and also will not be treated as mixed content (Firefox bug 1220810, Firefox bug 1488740).

APIs

Media, WebRTC, and Web Audio

Removals

WebAssembly

No changes.

WebDriver conformance (Marionette)

  • Added chrome scope support for WebDriver:PerformActions and WebDriver:ReleaseActions (Firefox bug 1365886).
  • The new Fission-compatible API has been enabled by default now. To revert to the former API the marionette.actors.enabled preference has to be set to false (Firefox bug 1669169).
  • Fixed WebDriver:SwitchToWindow to always switch back to the top-level browsing context (Firefox bug 1305822).
  • Improved browsing context checks for WebDriver:SwitchToParentFrame (Firefox bug 1671622).
  • Fixed a hang for WebDriver:Back encountered when the currently-selected <iframe> gets unloaded (Firefox bug 1672758).

Known bugs

  • After page navigation, accessing a previously-retrieved element might not always raise a "stale element" error, and can also lead to a "no such element" error. To prevent this, set the marionette.actors.enabled preference to false (Firefox bug 1684827).

Changes for add-on developers

Older versions