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With Mozilla’s Firefox as your web browser of choice, you can surf Internet easily with a simple user interface that has powerful features and... Get Firefox 31.0 Now!

With Mozilla’s Firefox as your web browser of choice, you can surf Internet easily with a simple user interface that has powerful features and is yet easy to manage.  If you couple that with great browsing speed and strong security capabilities then you will see why Firefox has consistently been in the top 3 most popular browsers across the globe.

In the newest stable version of Firefox (31.0) there have been a couple of changes, some fixes, some new features and a handful of dev tweaks.

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New Features Include:

– Add the search field to the new tab page.
– Support of Prefer:Safe http header for parental control.
– mozilla::pkix as default certificate verifier.
– Block malware from downloaded files.
– Partial implementation of the OpenType MATH table.
– audio/video .ogg and .pdf files handled by Firefox if no application specified. (Windows only)
– Upper Sorbian [hsb] locale added.

Changed:

– Removal of the CAPS infrastructure for specifying site-specific permissions (via capability.policy.* preferences). Most notably, attempts to use this functionality to grant access to the clipboard will no longer work. The sole exception is the checkloaduri permission, which may still be used as before to allow sites to load file:// URIs.

HTML5:

– WebVTT implemented and enabled.
– CSS3 variables implemented.

Developer:

– Developer Tools: Add-on Debugger.
– Developer Tools: Canvas Debugger.
– New Array built-in: Array.prototype.fill().
– New Object built-in: Object.setPrototypeOf().
– CSP 1.1 nonce-source and hash-source enabled by default.
– Developer Tools: Eyedropper tool added to the color picker (learn more).
– Developer Tools: Editable Box Model.
– Developer Tools: Code Editor improvements.
– Developer Tools: Console stack traces.
– Developer Tools: Copy as cURL.
– Developer Tools: Styled console logs.
– navigator.sendBeacon enabled by default.
– Dialogs spawned from the onbeforeunload event no longer block access to the rest of the browser.

Fixed:

– Search for partially selected link text from context menu.

So, if you want easy browsing, speed and security, and be able make your browser totally personal, then what are you waiting for?  The stable edition of Firefox 31.0 is now available to download from FileHippo.com today.

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