Mozilla has released Firefox 19 which follows the Firefox 18 release in January. The new version which is available to Windows, Mac OS and Linux computers, brings a few new features, improvements and bug fixes. The biggest addition for the new platform is the inclusion of a built-in PDF viewer, a feature found on other browsers that has been sorely missing for Firefox users.Mozilla has also released Firefox 19 for Android which you can download through the Google Play Store.
You can download the update on your Windows, Mac OS or Linux computers by heading over to Help > About on your Firebox browser or by pointing your browser to Firefox.com. You can also download the latest version and install the update manually using the links which follow:
Firefox 19 is available as a free update to users and its always a good idea to download the latest version to ensure you have the best perfoming and most secure version of the browser before you get online.
Firefox 19 is expected to have the following new features and improvements according to Mozilla’s release notes:
- NEW: Built-in PDF viewer.
- CHANGED: Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob().
- CHANGED: Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313).
- DEVELOPER: Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties.
- DEVELOPER: Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true).
- DEVELOPER: There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true).
- DEVELOPER: Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor.
- HTML5: CSS @page is now supported.
- HTML5: CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax).
- HTML5: CSS text-transform now supports full-width.
- FIXED: Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (802274).