Mozilla Firefox 15 was officially launched, and the latest version of browser is now available for download. Biggest improvement in Firefox 15 is improved by memory installed add-ons. Which were in the past for most memory leaks are responsible, but Mozilla is the cause of these problems solved. The new version offers improved performance and close dozens of weak spots in the security.
The previous upgrade of Firefox was done in mid July. Since last year, Mozilla introduces approximately every 6 weeks a new version of the Web browser. The new version also offers a renewed awesome screen for your web history, bookmarks, passwords and form data. Firefox 15 offers Flash support for Honeycomb tablets and switch between desktop and mobile versions of a website with the push of a button.
One of the major improvements is the prevention of "memory leak", both by bugs in the browser itself and poorly written extensions (add-ons) of others. The developers have since June last year as part of the project MemShrink busy the memory usage of Firefox reduction.
Among the new features in the browser should support SPDY v3, a protocol developed by Google that the page load faster and safer to make. Furthermore install the browser now all updates automatically in the background without the user noticing. The new version is first installed in a separate folder, next to the folder with the previous version. The next time the user start Firefox, the new folder is active.
Firefox 15 has a strong security component. In total, the new version 31 vulnerabilities, 23 of which are critical. It is noteworthy that almost half of the vulnerabilities were reported by Abhishek Arya, a security guard from Google. One of the leaks suggested attackers are able to control the PC to get after installing a new version of Firefox. Another condition was that starting a special file in the root directory of Windows was installed.
The browser is also embedded PDF support. Furthermore the click to play support improved, although users who themselves still have to turn. This measure is an extra click required to example videos on YouTube. This would users against drive-by downloads to protect. How many and which vulnerabilities are corrected exactly is not known.
Flush with the Firefox browser, Mozilla has also Thunderbird in version 15 released. The main visible change is in the corresponding appearance between the browser and email program. New is also a live chat option. For sending large files, the option for Ubuntu One cloud storage added.
Most patches are also stable version Firefox ESR - The lions share of vulnerabilities is also fixed in the extended support release , or Firefox ESR. This version appears parallel to the normal releases at least one year and provides a stable product in terms of features and user interface.
Existing users receive 15 Firefox automatically. It is also possible the new version manually download Mozilla. According to schedule on October 9 Firefox 16 release.
Download Mozilla Firefox 15 for PC
Download Mozilla Firefox 15 for Android
Firefox will now only work on devices running Android 2.2 Froyo and beyond. View Demo of BananaBread, a 3D FPS using WebGL on Youtube:
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