Firefox 44, Added support for push notifications: The news of the release
In the past few hours, Mozilla has released a new release of Firefox, adding push notification’s expectations coming directly from the sites.
Mozilla has launched in recent hours the latest release of its popular web browser. Firefox comes then to version 44 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, with the main news that is related to the addition of push notifications also closed tab. Sites can then send notifications on your desktop, in a very similar manner to what has been possible with other competitive applications such as Chrome or Safari.
Firefox 44 can be downloaded traditionally on official channels, with the upgrade for existing users should install itself automatically. Slightly different is the situation of Android, with the distribution package on Google Play that will happen gradually as usual. According to notes from Mozilla about ” half a billion people around the world ” using Firefox, with its innovations are regularly followed by several developers.
As we recently saw on Chrome 48, Firefox also abandons support RC4 encryption over HTTPS connections, now considered insecure. It is an algorithm created in 1987 and which has been used by several browsers. In February of 2015, the IETF has prohibited the use TLS, a decision that prompted all the major names in the field of web browsing to abandon technology support on the respective software (missing only now Microsoft appeal).
The main new feature of the release is still support for push notifications coming directly from websites. This is a feature that Google has implemented in Chrome 42 in April 2015 and that now we can also find on the Mozilla browser. The user will have to give explicit permission to the various sites so that they can send their notifications, should be avoided and the functionality could be more annoying than convenient and extremely intrusive.
There are also new even within the developer tools, as some tools for visual editing and memory management. A complete list of changes on the desktop version can be found on this page in English the official website of Mozilla, while for the new Firefox 44 on Android, you can direct your browser to this page. Mozilla typically releases a new version of its Firefox every six weeks, and we can expect the new release in mid-March.
