Mozilla firefox 24 released

Mozilla firefox 24 stable is now available for download.

What’s new in this firefox 24?

Support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.
Implemented Close tabs to the right.
Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out.
Accessibility related improvements on using pinned tabs.
Removed support for Revocation Lists feature.
Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads.
Major SVG rendering improvements around Image tiling and scaling.
Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console.
Removed support for sherlock files that are loaded from application or profile directory.
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Mozilla firefox 23 released

Mozilla firefox 23 stable is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage.

What’s new in this firefox 23?

Mixed content blocking enabled to protects users from man-in-the-middle attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages.
Options panel created for Web Developer Toolbox.
“Enable JavaScript” preference checkbox has been removed and user-set values will be reset to the default
Updated Firefox Logo.
Improved about:memory’s functional UI.
Simplified interface for notifications of plugin installation.
Enabled DXVA2 on Windows Vista+ to accelerate H.264 video decoding.
Users can now switch to a new search provider across the entire browser.
CSP policies using the standard syntax and semantics will now be enforced.
input type=’file’ rendering improvements.

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Mozilla firefox 22 released

Mozilla firefox 22 stable is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage.

What’s new in this firefox 22?

Windows: Firefox now follows display scaling options to render text larger on high-res displays
WebRTC is now enabled by default!
Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon
HTML5 audio/video playback rate can now be changed
Social services management implemented in Add-ons Manager
asm.js optimizations (OdinMonkey) enabled for major performance improvements
Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates
Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap
For user security, the |Components| object is no longer accessible from web content
Improved memory usage and display time when rendering images
Pointer Lock API can now be used outside of fullscreen
CSS3 Flexbox implemented and enabled by default
New Web Notifications API implemented
Added clipboardData API for JavaScript access to a user’s clipboard
New built-in font inspector
New HTML5 data and time elements
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Mozilla firefox 21 released

Mozilla firefox 21 stable is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage but expected to be available in May 14.

What’s new in this firefox 21?

Enhanced three-state UI for Do Not Track (DNT)
Firefox will suggest how to improve your application startup time if needed
Preliminary implementation of Firefox Health Report
Ability to Restore removed thumbnails on New tab Page
Add-ons History API removals in Places
CSS -moz-user-select:none selection changed to improve compatibility with -webkit-user-select:none
Graphics related performance improvements
Removed E4X support from SpiderMonkey
Implemented Remote Profiling
Integrated, Add-on SDK loader and API libraries into Firefox
Added support for < main > element
Implemented scoped stylesheets
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Mozilla firefox 20 released

Mozilla firefox 20 stable is now available for download.

What’s new in this firefox 20?

Per-window Private Browsing. Learn more.
New download experience. Learn more.
Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging
Continued performance improvements around common browser tasks (page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.)
Continued implementation of draft ECMAScript 6 – clear and Math.imul
New JavaScript Profiler tool
getUserMedia implemented for web access to the user’s camera and microphone (with user permission)
canvas now supports blend modes
Various audio and video improvements
Fixes:
Details button on Crash Reporter
Unity plugin doesn’t display in HiDPI mode

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