Firefox 17 supports the first time a Social API that allows the user to integrate functions of social networks like Facebook into the web browser.Facebook fans can also integrate the Messenger of the provider in Firefox. For increased safety, the feature click-to-play, that’s some users may already be known by addons like Flashblock: elements of a website that will be played by plugins are initially hidden and can only be played on click.

Further information is available in the release notes. Firefox 17 is available in many languages for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X to download ready.

The Firefox version for Android now supports mobile phones with ARMv6 processors. The developers have implemented Explore by Touch for Android Jellybean and Barreriefreiheit improved.Details are in the release notes , a free download from Google Play .

The updated mail client Thunderbird gives the user more options to customize the menu bar.Simultaneously display the second Thunderbird Extended Support Release (ESR) for companies. It fixes several security issues and bugs and includes all the new features that have been added since January 2012 in the e-mail client.

• a significant reduction in memory consumption, additions to the project MemShrink;
• Added built-in document viewer in PDF format - PDF.js supports zooming and navigation features on Thumbnails for loading TrueType and Type 1, can form graphs and charts, supports compressed objects. (The default is 15 PDF.js version disabled. For those who want to test this feature in about: config, locate the pdfjs.disabled and set to the value false);
• added support audikodeka Opus ;
• support of the third version of the protocol SPDY;
• development tools integrated into a full-fledged debugger JavaScript (Ctrl + Shift + S);
• added tool ”Adaptive Design” (Ctrl + Shift + M) to view Web pages on different types of devices with different screen resolutions;
• in “Inspector» (Ctrl + Shift + I) added a new view layout of elements on the page;
• WebGL is implemented in the use of compressed textures to improve performance;
• support for GStreamer multimedia framework as a backend for playing audio / video elements HTML5;
• elements of audio and video support attribute played, and the element Source - Media;
• support for high-precision event timer that allows to know the time to within a thousandth of a second;
• increased speed run Firefox in Windows.

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• accelerated browser starts and reduced load time;
• significantly speed up the browser;
• added support for Adobe Flash;
• completely redesigned user interface and intelligent screen browser;
• on the revised home page added thumbnails of most visited sites and tabs open at the conclusion of the previous session;
• improved by optimizing the readability of the text font size;
• The default plugins are now loaded only at the touch;
• Google search is now using https;
• to improve the responsiveness of the touch has a new management architecture in scale pages;
• improved availability of stamp sites, bookmarks and history from the address bar;
• implemented Pointer Lock API;
• implemented a new API, preventing sleep the screen;
• improved properties of the text-transform and font-variant CSS for the Turkish and Greek;
• eliminated seven of the known problems.

After Google bought the company and the On2 video codec as WebM was released , Mozilla supported efforts to make WebM also the preferred format for HTML5 video. But with the HTML5 standardization in this respect there was no agreement . How, then, Brendan Eich of Mozilla notes , H.264 has won the Web and in the mobile space combat. In the latter, H.264 is a standard format, and the Web are still a lot more videos in the H.264 format to find than others. Even Google has not even half of the YouTube videos to WebM changed, and calibration doubts that it will be even more. For all the videos, was built in the advertising, H.264. Whether this is due to technical reasons, is not apparent from the blog.

Mozilla will integrate and share any H.264 implementation in Firefox and its other products, because this could result in license fees would be paid for the patents, which Mozilla refuses strictly. On the desktop, the flash player is available as a workaround – and if this will continue no longer be downloaded for Linux is available, so Google Chrome will have an integration of the Flash player, which can be used by Mozilla.

On mobile devices the situation is quite different for Mozilla. The mobile sector measures at Mozilla for the future highest value. There is H.264 but usually decoded by the hardware, so that the H.264 licensing already paid by the hardware manufacturer. The browser must then be controlled only the hardware.

The consequence is that Mozilla will support H.264 in this way. It is possible for Mozilla does not help when you need to provide users with an environment that is capable of playing web videos easily. Without this functionality would be Mozilla not competitive. Mozilla will work but will continue for an open web with no patent barriers. The next battle that is beat, is WebRTC freely available to keep. The same statement makes the Mozilla chairman Mtchell Baker in their announcement of the change in direction .

List of changes:

• Import bookmarks, history, and cookie-files from Google Chrome.
• Support for CSS text-size-adjust.
• In reviewing the source code for syntax parser uses HTML5.
• New tool to edit the CSS.
• 3D-mode structure of the pages in the inspector.
• SPDY support for fast loading pages.
• XMLHttpRequest supports parsing HTML.
• Synchronization between computers additions.
• Storing files in IndexedDB.
• Websockets now does not contain a prefix.
• Adapted management of HTML5-video.
• Fixed problem with notifications and Growl 1.3 +.

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In addition to this, of course important for all events, the latest version boasts the following changes:

• “Next” button has now become optional and only appears when needed, freeing up space so critical to the horizontal;
• adds support for anti-aliasing in the graphics output via component WebGL;
• Support Fullscreen API: YouTube HTML5 now able to expand the window to full screen video output;
• declared support for CSS3-dimensional transformations;
• new element <bdi> to isolate bi-directional text;
• built-in tools for inspection of components with support for highlighting the selected item;
• Improved support for IndexedDB API;
• simplified configuration synchronization history and bookmarks with mobile versions of Firefox.

From the translator: two bonus points in HTML5 Test Suite , 5% acceleration in the SunSpider Benchmark , support caustics WebGL Water Simulation and once again earned the support of accelerometers (in the ninth was broken, probably a glitch assembly).

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The new API allows you to perform tasks such as mixing of audio streams, dynamic overlay audio and video, software generation audio streams. The current version of specifications aimed at working with sound, but in future they will be added to support and work with video, including features such as QR code recognition and augmented reality in web applications.

A distinctive feature of the new standard is its focus on the full compatibility with existing standards.
Most likely, the patches to implement support for MediaStream Processing, first get a “nightly build” Firefox. When the standard is fully tested, it will support and in stable releases of the browser.

PDF.js distributed trehpunktovoy license BSD. The developers hope that they will bring to the community development project. Despite the fact that the project – an initiative of the team Mozilla, it does not tied to Firefox, and, being carried out in conformity with standards, should work with all browsers are compatible with them.

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Project Wiki , where you can see the current status of work.

In this version:

• added highlighting the domain in the address bar
• processed block site identity
• Added support for latest version WebSockets
• added support for EventSource
• added support window.matchMedia
• Added JavaScript Scratchpad
• added new menu features for Web developers
• improved usability of the Web console
• Improved sync Firefox Sync
• reduced the startup time when using a browser Panorama.

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Again and again give the Mozilla developers interested users and developers insight into the future as it could meet the users in the coming versions of Firefox. The now published by Stephen HORLANDE prototype of a possible version of the Firefox browser to show a completely redesigned toolbar, which continues to dispense with menu-like elements, but fades in other control components. Shown to be possible solutions for Mac OS X and Windows. A Linux version should look similar but according to Paul Rouget first it was important to resolve various technical problems.

The new interface of the popular browser is in direct comparison to the current version of a little tidier.


Stephen HORLANDE shall waive for many years involved in the visual design of the user in the draft completely on the forward button. The first is to be displayed when there actually is content that can be controlled. The Reload button to find their place in the command line, which waives a search line and delegates apparently looking like Chrome directly to the input line.

The upper surface area of ​​show window controls and the tabs. Depending on the space sector in the full screen view can also be added to the URL entry line. In addition the range depending on the system also contains the menu and other controls.

When and if the new UI is introduced however is not yet clear. Given the technical problems still exist in Linux and the proposals put forward until now a release in the next or the next version of Firefox is rather unlikely.