Sit back, grab a refreshing drink and watch the Firefox version numbers soar…
On Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 22.0 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, a 42.6 megabyte download via MacUpdate, adds the following fixes and changes:
New:
– Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon.
– HTML5 audio/video playback rate can now be changed.
– Social services management implemented in Add-ons Manager.
– asm.js optimizations (OdinMonkey) enabled for major performance improvements.
Changed:
– Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates.
– Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap.
– For user security, the |Components| object is no longer accessible from web content.
– Improved memory usage and display time when rendering images.
– Pointer Lock API can now be used outside of fullscreen.
Developer:
– CSS3 Flexbox implemented and enabled by default.
– New Web Notifications API implemented.
– Added clipboardData API for JavaScript access to a user’s clipboard.
– New built-in font inspector.
HTML5:
– New HTML5 data and time elements.
Fixed:
– Scrolling using some high-resolution-scroll aware touchpads feels slow (829952).
Firefox 22.0 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later to install and run.
If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.