Mozilla released Firefox 14

The emergence of new versions of Firefox is becoming a constant. Faithful to their development cycles, the Mozilla team dealing with the news and their maintenance is followed to the letter the dates announced, and even some early versions.

This rate of release has brought new versions, always associated with news. The latest release was version 14, which was yesterday placed to download or update.




The big news that the 14 version of Firefox brings to its users is related to the security of our research in the search engine Google.

From this version, all searches made ​​on Google will use the HTTPS protocol, natively, without the user having to worry about choosing this method.

For now this is the only search engine that supports this feature, but Mozilla hopes to extend to others who will make available.

The novelty is added to this one that will be useful for users of Mac OS X. The 14th version of Firefox now supports full screen mode. It is thus optimized the use of the Mac screen for navigation, viewing videos or other content that make better use this way.

To increase the security of the uses of this browser, Mozilla has changed the way identifies the methods of access to sites, improving the visual information given to users.

The access via HTTP now have a simple world, those who implement HTTPS and SSL encryption padlock and https in the address text and certificates that use Extended Validation (EV) are green and display a padlock name of the owner of the site.


The plugins for Firefox also suffered a minor change in this version 14 and can now be released only when they click on them. This feature requires a minimal change in about: config.

To finish the changes visible only to note that lack the Awesome Bar, the address bar of Firefox, performs the auto-complete addresses written.

The developers of Firefox extensions are now able to use the new API's. The mouse that lets you use more accurately and interact with the browser based on their movements, called Pointer Lock is available as well as another that allows the monitor to lock Hibernate.

Were resolved other bugs affecting the previous version of Firefox, not just security, but also related to problems based on different operating systems where Firefox can be used.

This update, 14.0.1, is now available for update through Firefox itself or through the page in Firefox.
Download: Firefox 14.0.1
Homepage: Firefox

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