Furthermore, it’ll reduce chances of Firefox crashes in case of bad or malfunctioning plugins as certain vulnerable plugins will not be loaded by default on webpages unless user clicks on that plugin element to enable it. This feature would remarkably strengthen security of your browser giving due respect to your privacy. Well, now this is implemented and live in current version i.e. We’ve previously reported in one of our posts about click-to-play block-listing feature for plugins to be implemented in upcoming firefox version.Other websites could also utilize Social API of Mozilla Firefox to provide richer and native social experience, but this is, for now, noticeable in Facebook Messenger. This is like getting a messenger client within your browser.

Social API is rolled out in its first revision form along with support for Facebook Messenger so that users could get a permanent Facebook messenger in browser’s sidebar so that they could keep in touch with their buddies without opening.Mozilla Firefox 17.0.1 Download for Windows from here, for Mac from here, for linux from here, for Android from here.Under certain conditions, scrolling and text input may be jerkyįirefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1. This version of Firefox will not work on Macintosh hardware with Power PC CPUs If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash Some synaptic touch pads are unable to vertical scrollįor some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks (681795) We’ve added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector

New bdi element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties (see bugs 613188) The forward button is now hidden until you navigate backĪnti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented (see bug 615976)įull Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen (see the feature page)ĬSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported (see bug 505115) All in all, for a 10.0 release it’s kind of boring, but you can make it more attractive by giving it a Google Chrome style Omnibar with this add-on for Firefox that merges the search and URL bars into one.

Unfortunately, the browser is still lacking the now standardized OS X Lion full-screen button, and the 10.0 release didn’t include any new Mac-specific features.

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