Since yesterday it can be downloaded from the Mozilla FTP version 19 of Mozilla Firefox. This version does not have anything very relevant to show, except that the integrated PDF viewer is activated by default (in previous versions it could be used by modifying the about: config).
The changes and news in this version are the following:
- Integrated PDF reader thanks to the power of JavaScript and HTML5.
- Improvements in application startup times (bugs 715402 and 756313).
- Elements on canvas can be exported as an image using canvas.toBlob ().
- Debugger now supports pauses in exceptions and hides non-enumerable properties.
- Remote Web Console is available to connect us from Firefox to Android or Firefox OS (experimental, the devtools.debugger.remote-enabled option must be reset to true).
- There is now a browser debugger available for plugin and program developers (experimental, must reset devtools.chrome.enabled option to true).
- Links in the CSS section of the Web Console now open in the Style Editor.
- CSS @page is now supported.
- CSS viewport-percentage length units has been implemented.
- CSS text-transform now supports Full-width.
Did they need any other changes? From my humble opinion DO NOT. Right now I am using the version 21 de Firefox that you can find in the channel Nightly by Mozilla and it cannot be more stable.
Even this version I'm using already has some of the promised changes to the interface, like the Download manager included in the toolbar:
And I think the only thing that would be missing Firefox in terms of user level, it is that they have just implemented Australis, the new interface that is already available for Windows if I'm not mistaken, which is not that I like it very much, but hey.
At the level of options and functions, I don't think it lacks anything .. 😉
If you want to use it in Debian can be guided by this article.
Source: Firefoxmania.
great, hopefully one day pdf will stop being synonymous with adobe, because the free alternative / and the not so free ones are not known or massive at all ...
To all this, the pdf reader, what pdf standard (or version) does it respect?
Good info, but when will a kde version come out? I don't like to mix gtk + and qt. Thanks for the info.
Firefox is one of those applications that I don't mind mixing with KDE. You can always use Rekonq, or Qupzilla, but trust me, it's not the same 😀
I have FF v 19 in Arch + KDE, Modify the appearance with Oxigen KDE and you don't know where FF begins and where KDE ends.
By the way, the boot time not only improved, it almost disappeared! XD
No offense but nothing of that, the boot times are still quite noticeable, especially if you use a low-resource equipment. In that Opera beats him by a landslide.
Point in favor of the integrated pdf viewer although it fails a bit but surely it will improve in the future.
Not at all, no one is offended 😉
I just clarify that the fair comparison should be with the previous version of FF.
I just had a team test from 2007 where it used to start in 4 seconds and now in 1, a 75% improvement! (data taken with pulse watch, so don't expect much XD accuracy)
On the other hand, the capabilities of the hardware and the loading of the system by other applications are not causes of slowness attributable to firefox.
In a comment on a previous post of yours, I asked you for what reasons you were using Mozilla's Nightly Release and what sensations it gave you, but with this data that you give us, I think I'm going to try it for a season to see how it works.
A greeting.
codelab
I would like to ask a somewhat silly question using the phrase: "if you want to install it on Debian".
Is it worth installing Firefox instead of Iceweasel on Debian? Obviously Firefox is version 19 and Iceweasel is version 10. But it's really worth the change. What advantages does it offer over Iceweasel beyond Firefox being more recent?
For the rest, welcome to Firefox 19. I've always used this browser, and I don't change it for anything!
Man, from Firefox / Iceweasel 10 to Firefox 19 there is a good stretch of improvements and changes .. If you don't try it you won't know .. judge for yourself.
To have more recent versions of Firefox / iceweasel on Debian I am more in favor of using Mozilla-Debian repos
http://mozilla.debian.net/
By targeting the right one you can have iceweasel 19, beta or aurora a couple of days after the equivalent version of Firefox is released.
echo 'deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release '| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iceweasel.list
wget http://mozilla.debian.net/pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring_1.1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring_1.1_all.deb
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install iceweasel
And from there it will be updated like any other package
squeeze backports must be enabled in order to use the release. If you are in testing, you have to point to debian experimental and do some apt-pinning. If what you want is to use only the mozilla.debian.net repository with the experimental branch, you can only access the esr, beta and aurora versions
Damn, now that I see the image I put in, the 3 monochrome icons seem to have a 3D effect hahaha .. Interesting
Orita I'm testing version 18.0.2, I'm going to download the nightly version to see what changes even I use the nigthly version in chakra, I don't know if the ccr chakra repos will be a bundle, because it installs gtk 2, I'm still downloading it .
Greetings good post elav.
Question: can I have version 19 and Nigthly installed at the same time ???
By proxy you can, but you have to use separate profiles, otherwise you will be checking each time you start with one and the other the extensions and so on.
perfect, thanks Elav.
Elav I just installed Firefox 19, when executing it, the following message appears: It failed to execute the child process "/ opt / firefox / firefox" (The file or directory does not exist).
For the installation I followed the tutorial suggested by you.
A bit silly question but do you have the Firefox folder inside / opt /? Did you put the required permits and so on?
If the Firefox folder is in / opt, I opened it and tried running the firefox executable found in that folder, but the same message appears. I had used Firefox in testing several times and never had the problem now.
Also I followed the tutorial step by step, I gave the corresponding permission.
Thats weird. Even I have the Firefox folder in ~ / .local / apps / and it works without problems.
Is the download link in the article for 32 0 64 ?, I deleted the file from Firefox and re-downloaded but the version for 64 and installed it again, as you can see it works very well.
Oh my mother!! Hahaha maybe it was that 😛
Australis for windows is not available, what's more, the Australis theme that could be installed before is not compatible with the firefox 19 version, both in windows and in linux, I don't understand those changes that are so easy to implement before, the download manager can be put in the toolbar by going to options, design bar
Well, I follow several Mozilla blogs and I would have sworn that if it was available, I don't know if as an extension.
To have it as a complement in FF 19 you need version 2.4, which in the words of the author the reviewers are taking time to release it, but you can get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/australis/versions/
Does Firefox exist yet? He believed that with his tradition of not innovating and living behind schedule it had already disappeared 😛
When other browsers have the tools / development options that Firefox already tells me 😉
dragonfly: derp
who has died: oops
Haha, it's true, it has good tools, but Chrome / Chromium is not far behind and from what little I saw of Dragonfly it is also very complete - with the advantage that when running on the company's server the tool is continually updated.
Firefox was a revolution when it stopped being Mozilla and became Fenix but since Chromium appeared it is the only thing I use, Chromium is too comfortable, addicted!
Dragonfly has an expiration date.
and Chrome is already stable?
The mozilla developers take less and less time to release the versions, anyway as I suffer from versionitis I want to have the latest ones as soon as they come out haha.
You install the Nightly and believe me, it's Rolling Release hehehe
Haha you're tempting me elav, I've been wanting to try it for a while and they say it's very stable.
Maybe someone knows if there is any way to put Firefox bookmarks in a similar way to Chrome's, I don't like having to add an extra bar.
I don't quite understand what you mean because in chrome it is a bar too xD, in Firefox also if you don't want an extra bar you put them where you want click on customize and you put everything to your liking 🙂
I use the nightly version nor do I care about updates haha