If you just cant wait to get your hands on the new latest Firefox 19 browser, you might be pleased to learn that a Firefox download is now available before tomorrows official launch.
The Firefox download is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and includes a number of new enhancements over previous version of Firefox.
The Firefox download is now available via Mozilla’s FTP servers here. Mozilla has yet to publish a change-log for the new Firefox 19 browser which has been in development, but the beta change-log gives you some idea of the new features and tweaks you can expect in the latest Firefox download.
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: Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode
(802274).
If you dont fancy an early Firefox download you can always wait until it arrives on the Firefox homepage.
Source: TNW
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