firefox 18 released

[hclarkjr]

http://dm-download02.mozilla.org/pu...eases/18.0/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 18.0.exe

What’s New

• NEW Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler
• NEW Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
• NEW Preliminary support for WebRTC
• CHANGED Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
• CHANGED Performance improvements around tab switching
• DEVELOPER Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
• DEVELOPER Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
• HTML5 Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
• FIXED Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages (62178)
• FIXED Improved responsiveness for users on proxies (769764)

Known Issues

• Unresolved Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages (see 825205)
• Unresolved If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)
• Unresolved For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual (see 579260)
• Unresolved Windows: The use of Microsoft's System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox may prevent future updates (see 730285)
• Unresolved Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (see 802274)
  
  Unresolved on v18 Resolved in v19
• Unresolved Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (see 825734)

 

[hclarkjr]

upgrade went smoothly, nothing new noticed yet.

 

[Engineer]

Thanks!

 

[Pardus]

VWC Cocoon Plug-in doesn't work for Firefox 18.0. You'll need to remove this plug-in to make firefox work after the update.

 

[MontyAC]

thanks for the heads up. I've installed the update and it's running fine so far.

 

[minixjt]

I'm sure I'm asking this out of ignorance. But wasn't they suppose to have a windows ui version with Firefox 18?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Don't know about the UI question.

But, fyi v. 18 is now posted on the main firefox site.

 

[bruceb]

Just did the update, so far all is fine.

 

[nemesismk2]

It just updated so tried out a few websites and i have no problems to report

 

[ginfest]

Thanks for the heads up, working as expected

 

[Iron Woode]

it disabled my java plug-in.

I have the latest one, too.

hmm...

 

[pcslookout]

Does Firefox now update to the next version automatically ? What if I used a limited user account will it still do it?

 

[Berryracer]

Does Firefox now update to the next version automatically ? What if I used a limited user account will it still do it?

it does update automatically only when you go to the ABOUT screen.

If you have a non admin / limited user account you're screwed it won't update

 

[Mem]

Updated mine got a hard Firefox lockup when installing flash from their homepage so did a hard reset.

I used Chiefcrowe link to update flash,went smooth then.


So far all good,early days however . .

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Unfortunately, it still does not update automatically if you are using a limited user account.
You can make it work if you install the program in your user profile folder but that is also less secure.

Does Firefox now update to the next version automatically ? What if I used a limited user account will it still do it?