{"id":201864,"date":"2017-03-08T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T09:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201864"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T09:20:59","slug":"new-firefox-supports-webassembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/201864-new-firefox-supports-webassembly.html","title":{"rendered":"New Firefox supports WebAssembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/lots-new-in-firefox-game-changing-webassembly-support\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The latest release of Firefox<\/strong><\/a> is the first browser to support WebAssembly, which allows apps to run faster in a web browser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that WebAssembly will enable applications that have historically been too complex to run fast in browsers, like video games, computer-aided design, and video and image editing,\u201d said Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of Firefox also makes it easier to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots with captive portal detection.<\/p>\n<p>After Firefox detects a captive portal, it replaces certificate error pages with a message encouraging you to log in.<\/p>\n<p>The new Firefox also warns users about unsecure logins by showing an in-context alert if you click into a username or password field on a page that isn\u2019t encrypted with HTTPS.<\/p>\n<p>All plugins that use the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI), besides Flash, have been disabled in the browser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater this year, we\u2019ll further improve Firefox so that Flash content is only activated with user consent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">WebAssembly: A game changer for the Web<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaJCfdmr9Wg\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/197479-firefox-52-to-drop-support-for-npapi-plugins.html\">Firefox 52 to drop support for NPAPI plugins<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of Firefox introduces new features, making the browser more powerful, convenient, and secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[981,975,41818],"class_list":["post-201864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-webassembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202014,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201864\/revisions\/202014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}