Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 5, 2012 @06:15AM from the lucky-thirteen dept.

MrSeb writes "Mozilla has officially released Firefox 13. Unlike Firefox 12 (or 11, or 10, or indeed many of the recent Firefox versions), Firefox 13 is an important release with a handful of much-needed features that are long overdue. There's a new New Tab Page launcher, with your favorite and most-used websites, and a new default home page with one-click access to Bookmarks, Settings, Add-ons, etc. SPDY is on by default, too, which should help ameliorate the perceived speed difference between Chrome and Firefox. Finally, the developer tools (Page Inspector, Style Inspector, etc.) have been tweaked and updated!"

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Just leave me out of it by JDG1980 · 2012-06-05 06:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't use browser tabs at all. Never have, never will. The OS already has a perfectly fine task-switching mechanism. I don't care what they do with tabs as long as my existing style keeps working and I can continue using the FF3/IE6 look and feel with classic full-size buttons and menus. And a real home page, none of this "new tab" garbage.