Firefox 20 Released with Per-window Private Browsing Feature! Install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Today Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 20.0 for all platforms including Linux, Windows and Mac OS. In this release Mozilla aims to increase User privacy and Security. Lets Look at the new features added to Firefox 20

New in Firefox 20

• Per-window Private Browsing: This is same as Chrome's Incognito window, all you need to do is select "New Private Window" and new window will open without saving any search history, cookies, downloads or temp file.
  
  
  
  
• New look of Download Manager which looks nicer than previous one.
  
  
  
  
• Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging
• New JavaScript Profiler tool
• Continued performance improvements around common browser tasks (page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.)

You can check complete change log HERE.

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Firefox 19 Released with Built-in PDF support! Install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. On Feb 19, 2013 Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 19 for all platforms. Biggest addition in this release is the addition of Built-in PDF support that means users can avoid to use plugins with proprietary closed source code “that could potentially expose users to security vulnerabilities,” according to Mozilla.

New in Firefox 19

• Built-in PDF viewer
• Startup performance improvements
• CSS text-transform now supports full-width
• Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor

You can check complete change log HERE.

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Mozilla Firefox 18 Released with IonMonkey JavaScript Compiler! Install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. On Jan 7, 2013 Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 18 for all platforms. Firefox 18 comes with many improvement over its predecessor like IonMonkey JavaScript Compiler for faster performance, Better HTML scaling Algorithm for Better image etc.

New in Firefox 18

• Faster JavaScript Compiler(IonMonkey)
• New HTML scaling algorithm for better image quality.
• Improved tab Switching performance
• Improved Startup time

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Firefox 17 Released with new Social Feature : Install it in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and Mint 13/14

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. As of July 2012, Firefox has approximately 24% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the third most widely used web browser.

New in Firefox 17

• Improve display of location bar results
• Firefox Social Integration (Only facebook)
• Click-to-Play Part

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Install Firefox 16.0.2 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10 from tar.bz2

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. As of July 2012, Firefox has approximately 24% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, making it the third most widely used web browser.

New in Firefox 16.0.2

• 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

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