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Firefox 51.0 (Open Source) Released
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/51...easenotes/   
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Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.

51.0
Firefox Release

January 24, 2017
Version 51.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 24, 2017

We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

New

    Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback

    Improved reliability of browser data sync

    An even faster E10s! Tab Switching is better!

    Added Georgian (ka) and Kabyle (kab) locales

    A warning is displayed when a login page does not have a secure connection

    Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language

    Firefox will save passwords even in forms that do not have “submit” events

    Improved video performance for users without GPU acceleration for less CPU usage and a better full screen experience

    Added a zoom button in the URL bar:
        Displays percent above or below 100 percent when a user has changed the page zoom setting from the default
        Lets users return to the default setting by clicking on the button

    Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them

    Remove Belarusian (be) locale

Fixed

    Various security fixes

Changed

    Updated to NSS 3.28.1

    Re-enabled E10s support for Russian (ru) locale

    Use 2D graphics library (Skia) for content rendering on Linux

    Download Firefox

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b939c.../analysis/  SHA256:     b939c6eee04e099232da76f21b1f333d895825fb5e6d81ebb2b28f407ceee28a
File name:     Firefox Setup Stub 51.0.exe
Detection ratio:     0 / 56
Analysis date:     2017-01-24 17:40:50 UTC ( 1 hour, 4 minutes ago )
Signature verification Signed file, verified signature
Signing date 11:21 PM 1/18/2017
Signers     
[+] Mozilla Corporation
[+] DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA
[+] DigiCert
Counter signers     
[+] Symantec Time Stamping Services Signer - G4
[+] Symantec Time Stamping Services CA - G2
[+] Thawte Timestamping CA
Packers identified
F-PROT NSIS, 7Z, UPX
PEiD UPX 2.90 [LZMA] -> Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser
 VirusTotal metadata
First submission 2017-01-24 15:20:29 UTC ( 3 hours, 24 minutes ago )
Last submission 2017-01-24 17:40:50 UTC ( 1 hour, 4 minutes ago )
File names     Firefox Setup Stub 51.0.exe
Firefox Setup Stub 51.0.exe
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