Mozilla Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox Icon Mozilla Firefox wordmark
Firefox 20.0 running on Windows 8
Firefox 20.0 on Windows 8
Developer(s) Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation
Initial release November 9, 2004; 8 years ago (2004-11-09)
Stable release

21.0  (May 14, 2013; 1 day ago (2013-05-14))[1]

[±]
Preview release

20.0beta  (February 22, 2013; 2 months ago (2013-02-22))[2]

[±]
Development status Active
Written in C/C++, JavaScript,[3] CSS,[4][5] XUL, XBL
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
Engine Gecko
Size 15 MB – Windows[6]
31 MB – Mac OS X[6]
17 MB – Linux[6]
75 MB – source code[6]
Available in 86 locales (78 languages)
Type Web browser
License MPL
Website www.mozilla.org/firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free open source web browser for the computer. It uses the Gecko HTML rendering engine. It is made by the Mozilla Foundation. It works on many operating systems. The makers tried to make it very modular, easy to use, and safe.

Contents

History [change]

Version 3.0 [change]

Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter.
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Market Share Overview
According to StatCounter data

November 2012[7]

Browser  % of Fx  % of Total
Firefox 1 0.18% 0.04%
Firefox 2 0.18% 0.04%
Firefox 3 0.63% 0.14%
Firefox 3.5 0.63% 0.14%
Firefox 3.6 3.13% 0.70%
Firefox 4 1.03% 0.23%
Firefox 5 0.67% 0.15%
Firefox 6 0.67% 0.15%
Firefox 7 0.67% 0.15%
Firefox 8 0.94% 0.21%
Firefox 9 1.12% 0.25%
Firefox 10
Firefox 10 ESR
1.92% 0.43%
Firefox 11 1.56% 0.35%
Firefox 12 3.49% 0.78%
Firefox 13 2.01% 0.45%
Firefox 14 3.17% 0.71%
Firefox 15 4.65% 1.04%
Firefox 16 68.35% 15.29%
Firefox 17
Firefox 17 ESR
4.65% 1.04%
Firefox 18 0.22% 0.05%
Firefox 19 0.09% 0.02%
All variants[8] 100% 22.37%

The name for Firefox 3.0 while it was being made was Gran Paradiso.[9] "Gran Paradiso", like other Firefox development names, is an actual place; in this case the second-highest mountain group in the Graian Alps.

In 2006, the development team asked people who use Firefox to submit feature ideas that they wanted to be in Firefox 3.[10]

NetApplications says that the use of Firefox 3 has been going up very fast to a usage share of 23.75% in September 2009. They think that this increase means that Firefox 3 is stable and that users are using it as their main browser.[11]

Guinness World Record [change]

The date for the launch of Firefox 3 was June 17, 2008, named "Download Day 2008." Firefox was aiming to set the record for most Firefox downloads in 24 hours. As of June 18, 2008, more than 6.88 million people have downloaded Firefox 3.[12] [13]

Many people tried going to the Mozilla website on June 17, making it unavailable for at least a few hours. The site was not updated for the download of Firefox 3 until 12:00 PDT.[14][15] "Download Day" ended at 11:16 AM PDT June 18. [16]Firefox 3 has been downloaded 28,340,281 different times.[17]

Features [change]

Add-ons [change]

Extensions [change]

Extensions let a user add new things to the browser or change how it does something. They are created by other users. Because extensions are able to access all parts of the computer that Firefox can, extensions that can harm a computer could be made. However,the extension can only change system settings if you have administrator privileges.

Themes [change]

Firefox also has themes or skinning which change the way the browser looks to the user. Some themes that can make Firefox look like other browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Tabs [change]

Tabbed browsing is a feature used in the browser where many webpages can be opened in one window, with labeled tabs on top to select the webpage. To make a new empty tab, type control-T.

Searching [change]

There is a search box in Firefox that can be seen in the top right corner of the window. When someone using Mozilla Firefox types something in the search box and presses enter, the browser will search the Internet using a search engine like Google or Yahoo!. There are "search suggestions" in Firefox 2. When words are typed in the search box, suggested words will appear. For example, if "wiki" is typed, the browser will suggest "Wikipedia".

Spell checking [change]

Firefox can use spell checking, if a word is typed badly into a text box, like the one where someone changes a Wikipedia page, the program will underline the word that is spelled wrong with a red line. If you scroll over that word and right click, Mozilla Firefox will list words which use the right spelling. For example: the wrong word "chekc" will have "check" as a suggestion.

Release history [change]

Color Meaning
Red Former release; no longer supported
Yellow Former release; still supported
Green Current supported release
Blue Future release
Release history
Version Release date Gecko
version
Release notes
0.1 2002-09-23 1.2
0.2 2002-10-01
  • Web form auto-complete
  • Sidebar is back
    • Downloads Sidebar
    • Bookmarks Sidebar
    • History Sidebar
  • Extension management
  • Toolbar customization
  • Search bar
  • Improved preference defaults
  • Speed improvements
  • Ctrl+Mousewheel to resize fonts
  • Bug fixes[19]
0.3 2002-10-14
  • Image Blocking
  • Pop-up Blocking Whitelist
  • Bookmarks Changes
  • Global Go Menu and Other Menu Changes
  • Tabbed Browsing Improvements
  • Size and Speed Improvements
  • Bug fixes[20]
0.4 2002-10-19 1.3
  • Improvements to pop-up blocking
  • Improvements to toolbar customization
  • Improvements to tabbed browsing and shortcut keys
  • Type ahead find returns
  • Address bar gets smarter
  • Themes
  • Bug fixes[21]
0.5 2002-12-07
  • Multiple homepages
  • Intellimouse 5-button support
  • Sidebar remembers its state across sessions
  • Download fixes
  • History improvements
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Size and memory reduction
  • Performance improvements
  • Stability improvements
  • Better Windows appearance
  • Many more new themes
  • Many bug fixes[22]
0.6 2003-05-17 1.5
  • New default theme
  • Redesigned Preferences window
  • Improved Privacy Options
  • Improved Bookmarks
  • Talkback enabled to tell Mozilla why the browser crashed
  • Automatic Image Resizing
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Access to more preferences through about:config
  • Custom profile save location
  • Mac OS X compatibility
  • Lots of bug fixes[23]
0.7 2003-10-15
  • Advanced preferences panel
  • Download/helper apps preferences panel
  • Cookie whitelisting
  • New password manager (all passwords now stored encrypted[24])
  • Web panels (like Mozilla's sidebar panels)
  • Alternate stylesheet support (through a status bar button)
  • Send Page, Send Link, and Send Image menu items
  • Autoscroll
  • Lots of bug fixes and other small improvements[25]
0.8 2004-02-09 1.6
  • Windows Installer
  • Download Manager
  • New Add Bookmark Dialog
  • Work Offline
  • Better Handling of File Types
  • New XPInstall Frontend
  • New default theme for Mac OS X
  • Lots of bug fixes and improvements [26]
0.9 2004-05-15 1.7
  • New Default Theme
  • Comprehensive Data Migration from Internet Explorer
  • Extension/Theme Manager
  • Smaller Download
  • Online help system
  • Lots of bug fixes and improvements[27]
1.0 2004-11-09
  • Better Tabbed Browsing Controls
  • Horde of bug fixes[28]
1.0.8 2006-04-13
  • Security fixes
  • Bug fixes
  • Stability fixes[29]
1.5 2005-11-29 1.8
1.5.0.12 2007-05-30
  • Bug fixes
  • Stability fixes
  • Security fixes[31]
2.0 2006-10-24 1.8.1
  • Visual Refresh of main theme
  • Built-in phishing protection
  • Enhanced search capabilities
  • Improved tabbed browsing
  • Resuming your browsing session (session restore)
  • Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
  • Inline spell checking
  • Live Web Titles
  • Improved Add-ons manager
  • JavaScript 1.7
  • Extended search plugin format (predictive search)
  • Improved security with extension system
  • Client-side session and persistent storage
  • SVG text support
  • New Windows installer[32]
2.0.0.20 2008-12-18
  • Bug fixes
  • Security fixes
  • Stability fixes[33]
3.0 2008-06-17 1.9
  • One-click site info
  • Malware Protection
  • New Web Forgery Protection page
  • New SSL error pages
  • Add-ons and Plugin version check
  • Secure add-on updates
  • Anti-virus integration with download manager
  • Vista Parental Controls
  • Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
  • Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
  • Easier password management – save passwords after successful login
  • Simplified add-on installation from 3rd party’s
  • New Download Manager
  • Resumable downloading after closing the browser
  • Full page zoom
  • Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools
  • Tab scrolling and quickmenu
  • Save what you were doing - Firefox 3 will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
  • Optimized Open in Tabs behavior
  • Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
  • Text selection improvements (select multiple selections of text)
  • Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
  • Plugin management with the add-on manager
  • Improved integration with Windows
  • Improved integration with the Mac
  • Integration with Linux GTK theme
  • Bookmark star button
  • Bookmark tags
  • Smart Location Bar
  • Library of bookmarks, history, etc.
  • Smart Bookmark Folders
  • Web-based protocol handlers for mail:to
  • Download & Install Add-ons from the Add-on manager
  • Easy to use Download Actions
  • New graphics and font handling in Gecko 1.9 provide rendering improvements in:
  • CSS
  • SVG
  • Display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts
  • Color management of images with capabilities
  • Offline support for web applications
  • Improved speed
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Increased reliability
  • 25000 total code changes
  • Security fixes
  • Stability fixes[34]
3.0.19 2010-03-30
  • Fixed several security problems.
  • Fixed several stability issues.[35]
3.5 2009-06-30 1.9.1
  • Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora video and Vorbis audio
  • Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode
  • Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
  • The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing
  • Support for native JSON, and web worker threads
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering
  • Support for new web technologies such as:
    • Downloadable fonts
    • CSS media queries
    • New transformations and properties
    • JavaScript query selectors
    • HTML5 local storage and offline application storage
    • <canvas> text
    • ICC profiles
    • SVG transforms.[36]
3.5.19 2011-04-28
  • Fixed several security issues
  • Fixed several stability issues[37]
3.6 2010-01-21 1.9.2
  • Support for Persona themes
  • Protection from out-of-date plugins to keep users safer as they browse.
  • Open, native video can now be displayed full screen and supports poster frames.
  • Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time.
  • The ability for web developers to indicate that scripts should run asynchronously to speed up page load times.
  • Continued support for downloadable web fonts using the new WOFF font format.
  • Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
  • Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
  • Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.[38]
3.6.28 2012-03-13
  • Added Out-of-process plugins
  • Fixed several security issues
  • Fixed several stability issues[39][40]
4.0 2011-03-22 2.0
  • Firefox 4 is available in over 80 languages
  • Uses JägerMonkey, a faster JavaScript engine
  • Support for Do Not Track ("DNT") header that allows users to opt-out of behavioral advertising
  • Firefox Sync is included by default
  • Graphic rendering is now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 (Windows XP), Direct3D 10 (Windows Vista & 7), and OpenGL on Mac OS
  • Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users
  • WebGL is enabled on all platforms that have a capable graphics card with updated drivers
  • Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format, hardware accelerated where available
  • Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users
  • Tabs are now on top by default on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
  • The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like)
  • Crash protection when there is a crash in Adobe Flash Player, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins
  • You can turn any tab into an "App Tab"
  • The default homepage design has been refreshed
  • Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
  • Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
  • Additional polish for the Firefox add-on Manager
  • Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants
  • Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions
  • Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system
  • HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate
  • Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
  • Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over SSL
  • A new feature called Panorama gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped
  • An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations
  • Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property
  • Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation
  • New Addons Manager and extension management API
  • Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions
  • CSS Transitions are partially supported
  • Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X
  • Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs
  • More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction
  • Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload
  • CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history
  • New HTML5 parser
  • Support for more HTML5 form controls
  • Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines
  • A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code more efficiently[41]
4.0.1 2011-04-28
  • Fixed several security issues
  • Fixed several stability issues[42]
5.0 2011-06-21 5.0
5.0.1 2011-07-11
  • Fixed an issue in Mac OS X 10.7 that could cause Firefox to crash[49]
  • Fixed an issue caused by Apple's "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 5" where the Java plugin would not be loaded[50]
6.0 2011-08-16 6.0
  • about:permissions, a permissions manager. The user can choose what information can be shared with sites, e.g. location.
  • The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you are visiting.
  • Streamlined the look of the site identity block
  • Added support for the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API
  • Added support for EventSource / server-sent events
  • Added support for window.matchMedia
  • Added Scratchpad, an interactive JavaScript prototyping environment
  • Added a new Web Developer menu item and moved development-related items into it
  • Improved usability of the Web Console
  • Improved the discoverability of Firefox Sync
  • Reduced browser startup time when using Panorama
  • Fixed several stability issues
  • Fixed several security issues[51]
6.0.2 2011-09-06
  • Revoked the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance[52]
  • Removed trust exceptions for certificates issued by Staat der Nederlanden
  • Resolved an issue with gov.uk websites[53]
7.0 2011-09-27 7.0
  • Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
  • Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
  • Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
  • The 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default.
  • Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
  • Added support for the Web Timing specification
  • Enhanced support for MathML
  • The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8.
  • Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
  • Fixed several stability issues
  • Fixed several security issues[54]
7.0.1 2011-09-29
  • Fixed a rare issue where some users could find one or more of their add-ons hidden after a Firefox update[55]
8.0 2011-11-08 8.0
  • Add-ons installed by third-party programs are now disabled by default
  • Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
  • Added Twitter to the search bar
  • Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
  • Improved performance and memory handling when using <audio> and <video> elements
  • Added Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) support for cross-domain textures in WebGL
  • Added support for HTML5 context menus
  • Added support for insertAdjacentHTML()
  • Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
  • Improved WebSocket support
  • Fixed several stability issues[56]
8.0.1 2011-11-21
  • Fixed Mac OS X crash that occurred in certain instances when a Java Applet is loaded with Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_29 installed.
  • Fixed Windows startup crash caused by RoboForm versions older than 7.6.2.[57]
9.0 2011-12-20 9.0
  • Added type inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance.
  • Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion.
  • Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion.
  • Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript.
  • Added support for the font-stretch CSS property.
  • Improved support for the text-overflow CSS property.
  • Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS.
  • Fixed several stability issues.[58]
9.0.1 2011-12-21
  • Fixed crash on Windows, Mac and Linux[59]
10.0 2012-01-31 10.0
  • Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default.
  • Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented.
  • CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported.
  • New element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties.
  • Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen.[60]
10.0.1 2012-02-10
10.0.2 2012-02-16
  • Fixed Java applets that sometimes caused text input to become unresponsive.[62]
10.0.3esr 2012-03-13
  • Security fixes.[63]
  • Fixed web workers running out of memory, affecting some add-ons used by organizations.[64]
10.0.4esr 2012-04-24
  • Fixed an issue in Firefox ESR 10.0.3 that caused the "Whats New" page to open after an update.
  • Fixed extensions.checkCompatibility.* prefs not working in ESR releases.[65]
10.0.5esr 2012-06-05
  • Fixed the 10.0.5 Firefox top crash with signature [@ GLEngine@0x620cf ].[66]
10.0.6esr 2012-07-17
  • Security fixes.
  • Stability fixes.
  • Fixed some text editing inconsistencies.[67]
10.0.7esr 2012-08-28
  • Fixed contenteditable breaks in 10.0.7 that middle-click to open links
  • Addressed a fix that allows specifying wildcard that matches all simple netbiosnames in network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris.[68]
10.0.8esr 2012-10-09
  • Security fixes.[69]
10.0.9esr 2012-10-12
10.0.10esr 2012-10-26
10.0.11esr 2012-11-20
10.0.12esr 2013-01-08
11.0 2012-03-13 11.0
  • Migration of settings from Google Chrome
  • SPDY protocol support (disabled by default)
  • RFC 6455 WebSocket protocol support with a unprefixed API
  • Page Inspector Tilt (3D View)
  • Sync Add-ons
  • Redesigned HTML5 video controls
  • Style Editor (CSS)[74]
12.0 2012-04-24 12.0
  • Windows: Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt (User Account Control)
  • Reintroduced on-demand loading of pinned tabs after restoring a session
  • Page Source now has line numbers
  • Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute
  • Improvements to "Find in Page" to center search result
  • URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded
  • Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added
  • Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
  • Various security fixes
  • Many bug fixes
    • Some TinyMCE-based editors failed to load (739141)
    • OS X: WebGL performance may be degraded on some hardware (713305)[75]
13.0 2012-06-05 13.0
  • When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages
  • The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more
  • 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
  • 72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
  • The column-fill CSS property has been implemented
  • Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
  • Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
  • The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to the element
  • The CSS turn angle unit is now supported[76]
13.0.1 2012-06-15
  • Fixed an issue when Windows Messenger did not load in Hotmail, and the Hotmail inbox did not auto-update
  • Fixed the Hebrew text that was sometimes rendered incorrectly
  • Fixed an issue in Adobe Flash 11.3 that sometimes caused a crash on quit
  • Various security fixes[77]
14.0 2012-06-26 14.0
  • Google searches now utilize HTTPS
  • Full screen support for Mac OS X Lion implemented
  • Plugins can now be configured to only load on click (about:config)
  • 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[78][79]
  • Long URLs now extend the status bar almost to the whole width of the viewport.
  • Gstreamer backend for HTML5 video to allow H.264 playback (needs to be enabled at compile time).
14.0.1 2012-07-17
  • Various security fixes
  • Fixed the GIF animation that can get stuck when src and image size are changed
  • Mac OSX: Fixed the nsCocoaWindow::ConstrainPosition that uses wrong screen in multi-display setup
  • Fixed the CSS :hover regression when an element's class name is set by Javascript[80]
15.0 2012-08-28 15.0
  • Silent update: Background updates
  • Support for SPDY networking protocol v3
  • WebGL enhancements, including compressed textures for better performance
  • Localization in Maithili
  • Optimized memory usage for add-ons
  • JavaScript debugger integrated into developer tools
  • New layout view added to Inspector
  • High precision event timer implemented
  • 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 format added
  • The <audio> and <video> elements now support the played attribute
  • The source element now supports the media attribute
  • Fixed the focus rings that keep growing when repeatedly tabbing through elements[81]
15.0.1 2012-09-06
  • Addressed a fix where sites visited while in Private Browsing mode could be found through manual browser cache inspection[82]
16.0 2012-10-09 16.0
  • Firefox on Mac OS X now has preliminary VoiceOver support turned on by default
  • Initial web app support (Windows/Mac/Linux)
  • Acholi and Kazakh localizations added
  • Improvements around JavaScript responsiveness through incremental garbage collection
  • 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
  • CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed
  • Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented
  • Fixed an issue where debugger breakpoints do not catch on page reload
  • No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures
  • Opus support by default
  • Reverse animation direction has been implemented
  • Per tab reporting in about:memory
  • User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version[83]
16.0.1 2012-10-11
  • Fixed security vulnerabilities[84]
16.0.2 2012-10-26
  • Fixed security vulnerability[85]
17.0 2012-11-20 17.0
  • First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
  • Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user's permission
  • Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
  • Mac OS X 10.5 is no longer supported
  • JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
  • SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint implemented
  • 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
  • Fixed pointer lock that doesn't work in web apps
  • Fixed page scrolling on sites with fixed headers[86]
17.0.1 2012-11-30
  • Reverted user agent change causing some website incompatibilities
  • Fixed font rendering issue[87]
17.0.2esr 2013-01-08
  • Security and stability fixes.
  • Fixed improvements to the Click-to-Play vulnerable plugin blocklisting feature[88]
17.0.3esr 2013-02-19
18.0 2013-01-08 18.0
  • Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler
  • Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
  • Preliminary support for WebRTC
  • Better image quality with Mozilla's new HTML scaling algorithm
  • Performance improvements around tab switching
  • Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
  • Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
  • Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
  • Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages
  • Improved responsiveness for users on proxies[90]
18.0.1 2013-01-18
  • Fixed problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions
  • Fixed unity player crashes on Mac OS X
  • Disabled HIDPI support on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches[91]
18.0.2 2013-02-05
  • Fixed JavaScript related stability issues[92]
19.0 2013-02-19 19.0
  • Built-in PDF Viewer
  • 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 viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
  • CSS text-transform now supports full-width
  • Fixed certain valid WebGL drawing operations that were incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages
  • Fixed an issue that starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode
  • Fixed plugins that stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode[93]
Version Release date Gecko
version
Release notes

Awards [change]

Mozilla Firefox has been given a number of awards by many organizations. These awards include:

  • CNET Editors' Choice, June 2008[94]
  • Webware 100 winner, April 2008[95]
  • Webware 100 winner, June 2007[96]
  • PC World 100 Best Products of 2007, May 2007[97]
  • PC Magazine Editors' Choice, October 2006[98]
  • CNET Editors' Choice, October 2006[99]
  • PC World's 100 Best Products of 2006, July 2006[100]
  • PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award, Software and Development Tools category, January 2006[101]
  • PC Magazine Best of the Year Award, December 27, 2005[102]
  • PC Pro Real World Award (Mozilla Foundation), December 8, 2005[103]
  • CNET Editors' Choice, November 2005[104]
  • UK Usability Professionals' Association Award Best Software Application 2005, November 2005[105]
  • Macworld Editor's Choice with a 4.5 Mice Rating, November 2005[106]
  • Softpedia User’s Choice Award, September 2005[107]
  • TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award, September 2005[108]
  • PC World Product of the Year, June 2005[109]
  • Forbes Best of the Web, May 2005[110]
  • PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award, May 2005[111]

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