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| Firefox 26 Aurora for Windows 8 Tablets |
Mozilla's metro release of Firefox 26 optimized for the new modern UI of Windows 8 is ready for Aurora use. The touch friendly version of Firefox features a streamlined and beautiful interface. It has a tile-based Firefox Start experience along with support for Windows 8 touch and swipe gestures, Firefox Sync, Windows Share integration and Snapped and Fill views. There is also support for WebGL, asm.js and hardware accelerated full HTML5 video. Firefox 26 Aurora brings another new feature - click to play. This feature puts the user in control of which plugin will play on a website. The user will have to click on the plugins which he/she want to play. By default Firefox has set all plugins to 'click to play' except Flash Plugins. According to Mozilla, this will significantly increase Firefox performance and stability. Also in Firefox 26, users will be able to run more than one service at a time with Firefox SocialAPI. There has been a number of other feature additions in Firefox 26 Aurora. Here's the official release notes for the complete list of changes.
- NEW: Windows 8 optimized Aurora is ready for use (seeblog post)
- NEW: All plug-ins in Firefox, with the exception of Flash plug-ins, are defaulted to 'click to play'
- NEW: You can now run more than one service at a time with Firefox SocialAPI, allowing you to receive notifications, chat and more from multiple integrated services
- NEW: Firefox's password manager now supports script-generated password fields
- NEW: Updates can now be performed by Windows users without write permissions to Firefox install directory (requires Mozilla Maintenance Service)
- NEW: Firefox now supports H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed
- CHANGED: Firefox now supports MP3 decoding on Windows XP, completing MP3 support across Windows OS versions
- CHANGED: CSP implementation now supports multiple policies, including the case of both an enforced and Report-Only policy, per the spec
- DEVELOPER: Firefox's Social API now supports Social Bookmarking for multiple providers through its SocialMarks functionality (see MDN docs)
- DEVELOPER: Experimental support for CSS sticky positioning (Aurora only - demo)
- DEVELOPER: Firefox no longer prompts when websites use appcache
- DEVELOPER: Firefox now supports the CSS image orientation property
- DEVELOPER: New App Manager allows you to deploy and debug HTML5 webapps on Firefox OS phones and the Firefox OS Simulator
- DEVELOPER: IndexedDB can now be used as a "optimistic" storage area so it doesn't require any prompts and data is stored in a pool with LRU eviction policy, in short temporary storage
- FIXED: When displaying a standalone image, Firefox matches the EXIF orientation information contained within the JPEG image (see 298619)
- FIXED: Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (see 847223)
- FIXED: AudioToolbox MP3 backend for OSX (see 914479)
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