Mozilla releases Firefox 18 with Retina display support
Open source software company Mozilla has released Firefox 18 for desktops, as well as updating its
Android mobile client to warn users before they visit potentially malicious websites.
Android mobile client to warn users before they visit potentially malicious websites.
The update for the desktop client, announced on Tuesday, brings few in the way of new features — with a short six-week release cycle, updates often bring a drip-feed of new options rather than a barrage — but it does include Firefox's new JavaScript compiler ionMonkey.
As a result, web apps and games perform up to 25-percent faster, the organisation said. It added that Firefox 18 also adds support for Retina displays for Mac users on OS X 10.7 or higher. There have also been a number of bug fixes and tweaks, such as disabling insecure content loading on secure (HTTPS) pages.
The list of updates for Firefox for Android is similarly short but does bring the an opt-in search suggestions feature as users type in the 'Awesome Bar'. For extra privacy, search suggestions are conducted over a secure connection.
Rounding off the most notable new features of the Android app is the warning system now in place to inform users that they are about to visit malicious websites that may be used for malware or phishing.
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