Firefox 16 the latest web browser from the Mozilla has now been
announced for the public also. This version of the open source web
browser is light on its new features, which will get notice easily by
the users, at the same time there are few features that is missing in it
that was most expected by its users. However, some of the added
features in this version will make this as a great platform for apps
development for mobile web as well as desktop browser.
The main focus of the Firefox 16 is on pushing the support of browser for the improved Cascading Style Sheets features as well as HTML5 programming interface and the pair of the web APIs, which is best, suited to the mobile device and tablets. There are also some of the new features that the Firefox 16 is consist of, is very much appealing to the power users as well as developers.
There is also a performance tweak to garbage collection in the
JavaScript engine of the Firefox 16, which is the major performance
improvement in it. Initially the JavaScript engine of the Firefox used
to gathered memory from the script, which was no longer working in long,
big running blocks. However, now it collects the script in smaller
segments for avoiding hit on the performance. At the same time, there
are some new security features that have been added in the new version
of web browser, Firefox 16 that is referred as “opt-in activation”,
which will help Mozilla to reach and configure the user’s browsers for
prompting them about the older or the known weak browser plug-ins from
the current one.
However, still the Mozilla Firefox 16 miss out the built-in PDF and due to this it the browser add-in supports the PDFs while reading. Above to all, the Mac users the support for the Mac Mountain Lion and OS X lion is also missing in this release and at the same time Mozilla has not given any indication that when they will be introduced.
The main focus of the Firefox 16 is on pushing the support of browser for the improved Cascading Style Sheets features as well as HTML5 programming interface and the pair of the web APIs, which is best, suited to the mobile device and tablets. There are also some of the new features that the Firefox 16 is consist of, is very much appealing to the power users as well as developers.
However, still the Mozilla Firefox 16 miss out the built-in PDF and due to this it the browser add-in supports the PDFs while reading. Above to all, the Mac users the support for the Mac Mountain Lion and OS X lion is also missing in this release and at the same time Mozilla has not given any indication that when they will be introduced.
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