Firefox 27 Released

#1

Post by joshmoz » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 2:37 PM UTC

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#2

Post by valarauca1 » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 2:51 PM UTC

The second bullet is important, having up to date TLS is a big deal in today's security/spy conscience world. Its possible to currently get (if you monkey around in about:config), but default settings are powerful since the average user won't bother. And I mean average-user type average user, not average hackernews reader/poster.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#3

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

Windows support appears to be a bit broken it seems.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#4

Post by josteink » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:24 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #3

Windows support appears to be a bit broken it seems.

Yeah. Multiple known issues is listed, which is unfortunate despite having known workarounds.

Most users will never get around to finding them and trying them out.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#5

Post by arunc » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

Awesome, my nightly got updated to 30! FF FTW!

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#6

Post by arunc » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC

Awesome, my nightly got updated to 30! FF FTW!

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#7

Post by bloodorange » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

2013 was such a good hear for Mozilla that I now looked at this release and was thinking - "blah! just another FF release". I then realised what had happened. They have developed so much momentum and such a good track record that I have taken their best product's release for granted...

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by terabytest » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

bloodorange wrote: post #7

2013 was such a good hear for Mozilla that I now looked at this release and was thinking - "blah! just another FF release". I then realised what had happened. They have developed so much momentum and such a good track record that I have taken their best product's release for granted...

Is that sarcasm?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#9

Post by pixl97 » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:38 PM UTC

valarauca1 wrote: post #2

The second bullet is important, having up to date TLS is a big deal in today's security/spy conscience world. Its possible to currently get (if you monkey around in about:config), but default settings are powerful since the average user won't bother. And I mean average-user type average user, not average hackernews reader/poster.

It is good, now all the latest major browsers support TLS1.2 with forward secrecy. It is unfortunate that IE doesn't put FS suits first though.

For you Windows server operators out there, I suggest IISCrypto to order your cipher selection (this works on desktop versions of Windows too).

https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#10

Post by izietto » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 3:39 PM UTC

> Added support for SPDY 3.1 protocol

Just in time to use it with nginx 1.5.10 :P