Download Firefox 11 Alpha (Aurora)
Now with 3D Web Inspector and data migration.
As noted in our previous post, Mozilla has recently pushed the first branch of Firefox 11 builds to its Aurora channel.
Although there is already a bunch of new features that were implemented, such as: new web standards support and redesigned media controls for HTML5 videos, two of the most notable ones are: 3D Web Inspector (you can read more about it here) and data migration, which allows users to transfer their data from Google Chrome to Firefox profile.
Is that all there is? Not really, Firefox 11 and Firefox 12 will include New Tab Page, Firefox Home Tab and more.
Firefox 11 Alpha (Aurora) Changelog
- Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome
- The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported
- Windows: An OS security dialog should no longer come up when updating
- View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser
- The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements
- The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers
- Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using Tilt
- SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable
- XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing
- Files can now be stored in IndexedDB
- Websockets has now been unprefixed
- Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video
- Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later
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As with every new Firefox release, Firefox 11 will also include a bunch of memory related improvements that fall under the work of the Memshrink Project. These fixes contribute more to the speed and responsiveness of the browser than any of the fixes listed a “new features” but because they aren’t overly visible or easily understood by the average user they never get a mention. They slip under the radar un-noticed but they are the reason that Firefox is getting better and better.
Nicholas Nethercote documents the major Memshrink improvements in his blog for those that want to know more.
More and more useless features from FF devs but of course after they got so much money from Google, they can waste them anyway they want. After 3 years, FF will have the same number of users that are no using FF for Android
Sorry wrong thread….
You guys can use the Firefox Release Tracking page to see what goes on with each version.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking