Hello all! As you are probably aware, Firefox 37 will be made publicly available tonight, with updates starting tomorrow morning. This release contains some features that are quite exciting. Let's jump in! Desktop Heartbeat. This new feature is going to be the most groundbreaking thing in a long time when it comes to better understanding our users. You can read more about it here, but basically this will allow us to be in constant contact with our real users, learning of their perception of Firefox, and at the same time helping those who need help find it, and those who love Firefox learn more about how they can share it with their friends and get more out of Firefox.

We are changing a bunch of things with TLS and SSL Support, which means that sites that use outdated or insecure versions of these protocols will break. Sites should be updating anyway, and users who are upset should contact the site admins.

Youtube now fully supports HTML5 playback, the first major step towards killing the Flash plugin.

Various performance improvements should improve the reliability and performance of this release.

Various changes for devs

Yandex is now the default search provider in Turkey, replacing Google. Google does not have a dominate position in Turkey and studies show that most Turkish users prefer Yandex to Google. Mobile We are duplicating the crypto changes on desktop, so expect similar breakages on Android.

Yandex is also the default on all Turkish installs of Firefox for Android

We are adding several new locales: Albanian [sq], Burmese [my], Lower Sorbian [dsb], Songhai [son], Upper Sorbian [hsb], Uzbek [uz]

Downloads should be much faster due to download backend rewrite.

Hello all! As you are probably aware, Firefox 37 will be made publicly available tonight, with updates starting tomorrow morning. This release contains some features that are quite exciting. Let's jump in! '''Desktop''' * Heartbeat. This new feature is going to be the most groundbreaking thing in a long time when it comes to better understanding our users. You can read more about it [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Advocacy/heartbeat here], but basically this will allow us to be in constant contact with our real users, learning of their perception of Firefox, and at the same time helping those who need help find it, and those who love Firefox learn more about how they can share it with their friends and get more out of Firefox. * We are changing a bunch of things with TLS and SSL Support, which means that sites that use outdated or insecure versions of these protocols will break. Sites should be updating anyway, and users who are upset should contact the site admins. * Youtube now fully supports HTML5 playback, the first major step towards killing the Flash plugin. * Various performance improvements should improve the reliability and performance of this release. * Various changes for devs * Yandex is now the default search provider in Turkey, replacing Google. Google does not have a dominate position in Turkey and studies show that most Turkish users prefer Yandex to Google. '''Mobile''' * We are duplicating the crypto changes on desktop, so expect similar breakages on Android. * Yandex is also the default on all Turkish installs of Firefox for Android * We are adding several new locales: Albanian [sq], Burmese [my], Lower Sorbian [dsb], Songhai [son], Upper Sorbian [hsb], Uzbek [uz] * Downloads should be much faster due to download backend rewrite.