📃 June 2014 release notes
New in Firefox
The following features are now available in Firefox:
-
background-blend-mode:
The
background-blend-mode
CSS property blends an element's background image and background color using blend modes likemultiply
,difference
, orcolor
. -
2D canvas opacity:
The optional
alpha
parameter of a 2D canvas'sgetContext()
method sets whether the canvas has an alpha transparency channel. If set tofalse
, then this permits the browser to optimize compositing for an opaque canvas. -
OES_texture_half_float_linear WebGL extension:
The
OES_texture_half_float_linear
extension for WebGL 1.0 contexts adds linear filtering with half floating-point pixel types for textures. -
WEBGL_color_buffer_float WebGL extension:
The
WEBGL_color_buffer_float
extension for WebGL 1.0 contexts adds the 32-bit floating-point typeRGBA32F
as a color-renderable format.
New in Firefox for Android
The following features are now available in Firefox for Android:
-
2D canvas opacity:
The optional
alpha
parameter of a 2D canvas'sgetContext()
method sets whether the canvas has an alpha transparency channel. If set tofalse
, then this permits the browser to optimize compositing for an opaque canvas. -
WEBGL_color_buffer_float WebGL extension:
The
WEBGL_color_buffer_float
extension for WebGL 1.0 contexts adds the 32-bit floating-point typeRGBA32F
as a color-renderable format. -
WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc1 WebGL extension:
The
WEBGL_compressed_texture_etc1
extension for WebGL 1.0 and 2.0 contexts adds the ETC1 compressed texture format tocompressedTexImage2D()
andcompressedTexSubImage2D()
.