Waterfox 38.0 is now available to download for Windows & Mac and brings important security update and new features.

What’s New in 38.0 (Waterfox)?

No changes users will notice. Back-end system has been updated. Code changes don’t require any build hacks to get Waterfox to compile. Everything is handled automatically. Just set ICL as your compiler and build away!

What’s New in 38.0 (Firefox)?

New tab-based preferences

Ruby annotation support

autocomplete=off is no longer supported for username/password fields

URL parser avoids doing percent encoding when setting the Fragment part of the URL, and percent decoding when getting the Fragment in line with the URL spec

RegExp.prototype.source now returns “(?:)” instead of the empty string for empty regular expressions

Improved page load times via speculative connection warmup

WebSocket now available in Web Workers

BroadcastChannel API implemented

Implemented srcset attribute and element for responsive images

Implemented DOM3 Events KeyboardEvent.code

Mac OS X: Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube

Implemented Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video/audio playback

Automatically download Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module (CDM) for DRM playback through EME

Optimized-out variables are now visible in Debugger UI

XMLHttpRequest logs in the web console are now visually labelled and can be filtered separately from regular network requests

WebRTC now has multistream and renegotiation support

copy command added to console

Various [url:security fixes https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/#firefox38]

Known Issue

Any users on Waterfox 35.0 and 35.0.1 will not be receiving automatic updates. Please update manually. Any Mac users on 36.0.4 or later will receive Windows update notification. Please ignore and update manually.