If you’re a Firefox user, you can now download the updated Firefox 15 today. The update includes some optimization enhancements and bug fixes. In addition, it comes with some new features for users and developers. To get the update, you can go to Firefox > About Firefox on Mac, or Help > About Firefox on Windows and the download will initiate automatically. Alternatively, you can download the update manually from the links provided below.
For users, Firefox 15 now includes silent background updates, support for SPDY networking protocol v3, performance enhancements for WebGL with compressed textures for gaming that use much less memory, and localizations in Maithili. Firefox 15 also introduces memory enhancements that reduce the amount of memory used for Firefox add-ons that the user downloads themselves to improve the browser's functionality.
Web developers will now be able to enjoy a JavaScript debugger built right into the developer tools, a new inspector layout view, a precise event timer, inclusion of the CSS word-break property, and a new feature that allows developers to quickly switch between desktop and mobile versions of Web sites right from their computer. Firefox 15 also adds new support for a couple of HTML 5 elements.
The full list of changes and known issues can be viewed from Mozilla’s Firefox 15 change log at this link.
The new Firefox release does not appear to break any of the necessary plug-ins or popular add-ons, so go ahead and grab it! Firefox 15 is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Download links are provided below:
Sources: Mozilla
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