Firefox 30 moves into aurora

Firefox 30 aurora is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this version?

Support for GStreamer 1.0
Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text
Disallow calling WebIDL constructors as functions on the web
Fixes to box-shadow and other visual overflow
Mute and volume available per window when using WebAudio
background-blend-mode enabled by default
Use of line-height allowed for input type=”reset|button|submit”
ES6 array and generator comprehensions implemented
Error stack now contains column number
CSS Property ‘line-height’ has no effects on input text fields
Ignore autocomplete=”off” when offering to save passwords via the password manager
TypedArrays don’t support new named properties
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Mozilla Firefox 19 Aurora released

Mozilla Firefox 19 Aurora is now available for download and testing.

What’s new in this release?

Mac OS X 10.8: Support for Notification Center
Built-in PDF viewer
Firefox will offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
Startup performance improvements
Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties
Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor
CSS @page is now supported
CSS text-transform now supports full-width
CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode
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Mozilla Firefox 17 Aurora released

Mozilla Firefox 17 Aurora is now available for download and testing.

What’s new in this release?

Mac OS X 10.8: Support for Notification Center
Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint implemented
Support for @supports added
Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
Page scrolling on sites with fixed headers
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Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora released

Mozilla Firefox 16 Aurora is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this release?

Firefox for the Mac now has VoiceOver support turned on by default
Web App Support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Improved our experimental support for reading pdf files in the browser using PDF.js
CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16
New Developer Toolbar with buttons for quick access to tools, error count for the Web Console, and a new command line for quick keyboard access
Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
FIXED:No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures
FIXED:Opus support by default
FIXED:Reverse animation direction has been implemented
FIXED:Per tab reporting in about:memory
FIXED:User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version
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Mozilla Firefox 15 Aurora released

Mozilla Firefox 15 Aurora is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this aurora?

Preliminary native PDF support
Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
Improvements around memory leaks caused by some add-ons
JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
New layout view added to Inspector
The CSS word-break property has been implemented.
New responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
Native support for the Opus audio codec added
The source element now supports the media attribute
The audio and video elements now support the played attribute
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Mozilla Firefox 14 Aurora 2 released

Firefox 14 Aurora 2 is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this aurora?

Google searches now utilize HTTPS
Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented
Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (requires an about:config change)
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
Improved site identity manager, to prevent spoofing of an SSL connection with favicons
Pointer Lock API implemented
New API to prevent your display from sleeping
New text-transform and font-variant CSS improvements for Turkic languages and Greek
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Mozilla Firefox 13 Aurora 2 released

Firefox 13 Aurora 2 is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this aurora?

When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages
The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites
Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup
Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default
The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more
72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to theelement
The CSS turn angle unit is now supported
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How to install Firefox Aurora on ubuntu

  • Post last modified:February 13, 2012
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Mozilla Firefox Aurora is a new Firefox release channel designed to show the first look of the latest firefox features. It is a pre-Beta build of Firefox.

Firefox channels:

Aurora: Newest innovations in an unstable environment
Beta: Aurora features but with more stability
Release: Tried and tested final release

To install Firefox Aurora on ubuntu

Note:It will overwrite your existing Firefox installation.
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Mozilla Firefox 12 Aurora 2 released

Mozilla Firefox 12 Aurora 2 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this Aurora?

Windows: Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt (User Account Control).
Page Source now has line numbers.
Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute.
Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default.
URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded.
The column-fill CSS property has been implemented.
Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added.
Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented.
FIXED:Improvements to “Find in Page” to center search result.
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Mozilla Firefox 11 Aurora 2 released

Mozilla Firefox 11 Aurora 2 for Windows, Mac and Linux is now available for download and testing.What’s new in this Aurora?

Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome.
The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported.
Windows: An OS security dialog should no longer come up when updating
View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser
The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements
The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers
Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using Tilt
SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable
XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing
Files can now be stored in IndexedDB
Websockets has now been unprefixed
Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video
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