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Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks

Posted by Soulskill on from the primed-with-new-features dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 17 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition in this release is click-to-play plugins, announced back in October. In short, the addition means Mozilla will now prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight (more will be added eventually)." The release notes are available, as is a list of changes for devs. Firefox for Android got a new release as well (notes).

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  1. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X by jopsen · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do realize Chrome has the same release cycle?

  2. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Informative

    ESR is only supported for a year. It allows for 2 months in between versions before one version is dropped.

    IE is going the same route with annual updates. IE 10 is an exception due to the incompetence of the Windows 8 team forcing WDDM 1.2 and DirectX 11.1 onto it which requires significant backporting.

    So this time next year IE 11 will be out or in RC states and the following IE 12 etc. Organizations need to learn to adapt to change more rapidly. It is not like a minor release is anything like the huge rewrite of apps that resulted from IE 6 to IE 7 or even 8. Your browser should always be updated at a regular basis.

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  3. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Informative

    Quite a lot of sites support the full 'retina' resolution. For example, Google Maps or Picassa Web.