Firefox available in Aurora 14

Firefox Aurora is at number 14. Small point on the improvements expected...

The final version of Firefox 12 is available recently, and version 13 is of course in beta, but the Mozilla Foundation continues on a paced and informs us that Firefox 14 which will arrive in 12 weeks is available in Aurora.

Finally, Firefox 14 rajoutera support for full screen for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Also, it will mark a support for the HTTPS protocol for the Internet search in the address bar, on the home or menu page shortcut if Google is chosen as the default search engine. It is also question of the support of the Mouse Lock API that allows to know the position in real time of the mouse in the browser to to trigger animations his movement or position, which can be interesting for the game online for example.

The CSS will be also better managed with the support of the States based on the mouse. For example, the visited page may display correctly the selected CSS style when the mouse is moved over a link, click on it, or if it has already been visited. Now in the configuration panel of the browser, it will be possible by default block loading all plugins installed with a click System on each zone enabling shipment as required.

Optimizations are also part with a better support the WebGL and SVG animations. The fonts are also better managed and their use will have less impact on memory consumption. There is still a lot of things to correct or to develop for the Mozilla Foundation, but this new version will bring these outlets a few interesting developments, such as the new manager of downloads or the new GStreamer framework.

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