Mozilla has just released Firefox 19
for users of the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems, and among a plethora
of new features comes an in-built PDF viewer. Since increasing its release schedule,
Mozilla has stuck almost religiously to its six-week cycles, and although it’s
rare – in software terms – to see a whole number update pertaining to only a
few minor changes, it helps Mozilla keep up with Google’s rampant Chrome
browser.
As well as the PDF viewer, which was perhaps
long overdue given its presence in the majority of other Web-surfing clients,
Firefox 19 brings startup performance improvements at user level. If you’re a
developer, there are several significant alterations: the Remote Web Console is
available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS, for example. The
Firefox OS reflects the mobile iterations of Ubuntu in that a predominantly
desktop-based company is hitting the smartphone scene, and from what we’ve seen
and heard so far, it looks promising indeed, so if you wish to attune yourself
with Firefox OS at this early stage, you’ll want this new Firefox update.
There are a bunch of bug fixes also
included in this release, such as the issue where starting Firefox with
-private flag was wrongly claiming the user was not in Private Browsing mode.
At this point in time, the new version is
live on the official Firefox site. However, if you’re on an older version of
Firefox, 18 for example, then you should get the update over the air, in the
background, and you’ll be up to speed in a matter of minutes.
If you don’t see the update yet, then
don’t panic, Firefox 19 will appear on the official site over at Firefox.com
once it has propagated worldwide, and if you prefer, you’ll be able to update
using the in-app update feature, as mentioned earlier.
After playing around with the final
build for a while, we have to say that Mozilla is definitely making a lot of
improvements as time is progressing. We’re expecting bigger and stronger
features to make their debut in the upcoming versions of Firefox.
Apart from the desktop version of Firefox,
the Android version has also been updated, and now supports themes and the
processor requirement has been lowered from 800 to 600MHz. The update can be
grabbed from the Play Store. [RedmondPie]
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