Mozilla has recently released the final build of Firefox web browser, Firefox 19. Though this isn’t a revolutionary version there are few important changes implemented in this version. A built-in PDF viewer is the most important one, for which users were waiting since long. Which means you no longer need to use third-party plugins for opening PDF files within your browser window. See the list below to know other important changes.
What’s New (From the release notes)
- NEW : Built-in PDF viewer
- CHANGED : Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob().
- CHANGED :Startup performance improvements.
- DEVELOPER
ebugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties. - DEVELOPER : Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true).
- DEVELOPER :There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true).
- DEVELOPER : Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor.
- HTML5 : CSS @page is now supported.
- HTML5 : CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax).
- HTML5 : CSS text-transform now supports full-width.
- FIXED : Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages.
- FIXED : Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode.
- FIXED : Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode.
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