Firefox 50 for developers

To test the latest developer features of Firefox, install Firefox Developer EditionFirefox 50 was released on November 15, 2016. This article lists key changes that are useful not only for web developers, but also Firefox and Gecko developers as well as add-on developers.

Changes for Web developers

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Developer Tools

All devtools bugs fixed between Firefox 49 and Firefox 50.

HTTP

Security

Networking

DOM

SVG

  • The allowReorder attribute has been dropped and the behavior it was setting is now the default for SVG <switch> elements (bug 1279690).
  • The defer keyword for the preserveAspectRatio attribute on SVG <image> elements has been removed to follow the latest SVG2 specification (bug 1280425).

Drag and Drop API

Pointer Lock API

  • The Pointer Lock API is now unprefixed (bug 991899).
  • Before Firefox 50, requestPointerLock() asked for permission using a doorhanger, and pointer lock would not be enabled until the user granted permission. From Firefox 50, pointer lock is like the fullscreen API: it's granted immediately, but a notification is displayed explaining to the user how to exit (bug 1273351).

IndexedDB

Service Workers

  • The WindowClient.navigate() method has been implemented. This method lets you open a specified URL into a client window which is being controlled by the service worker (bug 1218148).

WebGL

WebRTC

Web Audio API

Audio/Video

  • The AlignSetting enum (representing possible values for VTTCue.align) incorrectly previously included the value "middle" instead of "center". This has been corrected (bug 1276130).
  • The non-standard and experimental method HTMLMediaElement.seekToNextFrame() now seeks to the next frame in the media asynchronously, rather than synchronously, and returns a Promise which resolves once the seek is complete.
  • The implementation of HTMLTrackElement has been corrected to allow <track> elements to load resources even if not in a document (bug 871747).

Battery API

Files and directories

Older versions