Versions of browsers changes from time to time. When there are new versions released, there are some users who might not even see the major difference or even the improvements made. But with Firefox 20, for sure, online users will get to have better and more stable browsing experience.
Mozilla’s browser, Firefox may have undergone several versions but with its latest version, the new Firefox 20, they have set a new milestone. Six weeks after version 19 was launched, the newest version was also released. Firefox 20 was released last April 2, 2013. Along with its release includes new and surprising set of features.
For one, there are significant changes for developers. When it comes to HTML, there is now an added support for the download attributed on the
and element along with the value auto for global attribute dir. For JavaScript, Firefox 20 offers the use web apps with Kinetic 3.x even if they are using Cairo canvas backend. CSS Flexbox is also already available by default. CSS and JavaScript now can give user better response times.getUserMedia Support
One of the newest features of this browser is the getUserMedia HTML5 API which is already available in Opera and Chrome. This enables you to capture video and even audio from a camera or microphone. With the user’s permission, audio and sounds can easily be recorded.
canvas Blend Modes
With the browser’s newglobalCompositeOperation, you can have Photoshop-like effects (i.e. lighten, color-burn, screen darken, multiply and difference)
Improved Private Browsing Experience
Many online users want to have private browsing. With Firexfox 20, they get to have a more improved private browsing experience since it now prevents Firefox from updating your history, saving passwords, caching pages and storing cookies. Before, you had to close your current window in order to start private browsing. But with the newest version, you can now private or even non-private windows without having to start a new session again.
Plugin Stability
When you use a particular browser, there are often cases where you encounter problems with the plugins. Once a plugin starts to have problems, you have to restart the browser. Firefox 20 resolves this issues since you get to have better browser stability. It easily detects if there are hanging plugins. If there are hanging plugins, you can just close them without having to restart the browser.