Mozilla Firefox 19 Beta lands


Mozilla Firefox 19 Beta lands

Mozilla has released a new beta edition of their Firefox web browser for both desktops and Android devices.

Changelog:

Desktop

NEW
Built-in PDF viewer
NEW
Firefox will offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config
CHANGED
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
CHANGED
Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313)
DEVELOPER
Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties
DEVELOPER
Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
DEVELOPER
There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
DEVELOPER
Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor
HTML5
CSS @page is now supported
HTML5
CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
HTML5
CSS text-transform now supports full-width
FIXED
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode

Android

NEW
Added theme support
NEW
Support for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese localizations
CHANGED
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
CHANGED
Lowered minimum CPU requirement to 600MHz
HTML5
CSS @page is now supported
HTML5
CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
HTML5
CSS text-transform now supports full-width
FIXED
Holding backspace may delete text both in front of and behind the cursor