Firefox 52 Released With WebAssembly Support, Security Fixes, CSS Grid

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 7 March 2017 at 11:18 AM EST. 44 Comments
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Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 52.0 as the latest version of their open-source, cross-platform web browser.

Perhaps most exciting about Firefox 52 is the WebAssembly support is present. Firefox 52 also warns about non-secure HTTP pages with logins, Strict Secure Cookies support, a number of security fixes, dropped support for NPAPI besides Adobe Flash (a.k.a. no more Silverlight/Java/Acrobat support), download improvements, improved security for screen sharing, CSS Grid Layout support, and more.

Those wishing to learn more about Firefox 52.0 can find the Mozilla release notes as well as more details on WebAssembly and the CSS Grid Layout support via hacks.mozilla.org.
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