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With Mozilla Firefox as your web browser of choice, you can surf the web easily with a simple User Interface that is easy to... Download Firefox 29 Beta

With Mozilla Firefox as your web browser of choice, you can surf the web easily with a simple User Interface that is easy to manage.  If you couple that with great browsing speed and strong security capabilities then you will see why Mozilla Firefox has consistently featured in the top 3 most popular browsers globally.  

In the newest version of Firefox (29.0 Beta 8) There have been a couple of changes, some new features and a handful of developer tweaks:

New features include; Malay [ma] locale added, Gamepad API finalized and enabled (learn more), The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account (learn more), A redesigned and improved customization mode, An interactive onboarding tour to guide users through new interface changes, A set of new improvements to the Firefox user interface (learn more)

Changes include; Navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable, for user privacy. Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab

Developer features include; Enabled ECMAScript Internationalization API. ‘box-sizing’ (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented.  SharedWorker enabled by default. Console object available in Web Workers.  Promises enabled by default.  Add-on bar has been removed, content moved to navigation bar.  <input type=”number”> implemented and enabled.  <input type=”color”> implemented and enabled.

Firefox 29.0 Beta 8 is available to download now from FileHippo.

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