Firefox 19 Released!

Elevon

Elevon

Elevon

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What’s New

NEW
Built-in PDF viewer
CHANGED
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
CHANGED
Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313)
DEVELOPER
Debugger 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 (825205)
FIXED
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (802274)
FIXED
Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (825734)
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http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
 
And I just happened to be trying to view a PDF online. Online sites were failing badly. FF19 is allowing exactly as I wanted to do with and in the documents.
 
mo9204 said:
Elevon sold me FF19, tell me what features does this Google has?

so that we can compare the two, and everyone has choice
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Firefox is way more customizable then Chrome,also check out these awesome themes for Firefox,https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/?sort=rating .


Nice weather forecast too,https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/forecastfox-weather/


Only Opera and Firefox give you the option to have tabs at bottom near taskbar too,Chrome does not.


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I also have my bookmarks A to Z,
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Moved from FF to Chrome about 8 months ago, still see no reason to go back. Was a massive FF fan but I don't need the level of customisation which FF offers.
 
i was also a massive FF fan for yonks but started on google chrome and that's about all i think ill ever really need.

basic simple browsing i dont need all this extra fiddlyness, maybe 10 years ago when id spend hours tweaking everything.

edit: my bad :)
 
I feel like I'm on of the lucky few who's never had any real problems with Firefox in the 8 years or so I've been using it. I use Chrome as my secondary 'clean' browser (mostly for TopCashBack purchases etc) and it works well for that, but it doesn't have the same selection of add-ons as Firefox and it isn't quite as customisable either.

If I had to switch I probably could, but I see no reason to.
 
CaptainCrash said:
Looks like the troll post achieved its objective of derailing this thread...
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Chrome trolls are everywhere,they can't help it,getting back on topic I tried the PDF reader in Firefox not bad its basic however, between that and Win8 built-in PDF reader covers my needs.
 
I use three browsers for their own reasons, firefox is great for the customization but the more you add the slower it gets so I have it loaded with my essentials but mainly use it for youtube since the Magic Actions extension is phenomenal.
 
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I used to really like Firefox, but I just cannot see a reason to use it any more, the extensions by and large seem a bit gimmicky. I do appreciate that back in the day it introduced the first tabs, but now it's losing market share daily.
 
I like Firefox as can get access to certain sites that I can't using other browsers.

The only issue I have is that the Flash plug in keeps crashing even after following the guides on it.

May try the new one and see if that makes any difference
 
Chrome is great, I find it comforting to know a multi billion dollar advertising company is receiving every letter i type into the omnibox ;)
 
Firefox for me, for these reasons!

Nexus18 said:
- Firefox is faster for me (especially when loading image/GIF/Flash intensive pages, chrome really sucks in that area), pages are loaded first and then rendered instantly where as with chrome it loads the pages whilst rendering at the same time so it doesn't have that same instant feel as firefox, just appears that it loads faster. However, overall chrome is faster and smoother throughout the UI.

- having the gmail tab pinned and if you receive an email it doesn't change colour, you need to install an addon and have an icon in the nav bar, so more clutter

- pages aren't remembered where you left off after you close chrome, just reloads them and brings you back to the top of the page again, so means you have to scroll all the way through again looking for the last post you read

- userstyles look no where as good on chrome

- no where as smooth when scrolling as firefox even with smooth scroll installed especially for image/flash/GIF intensive pages

- font looks much better, more smooth for firefox. Ever since a certain update for chrome, the font has gotten even worse, very noticeable on this forum

- Better ad-blocking scope

- firefox allows you to tweak the UI to whatever you want
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