Firefox 18 Launches With Faster IonMonkey-Enabled JavaScript, Built-In PDF Viewe

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 18 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include a new JavaScript compiler, a built-in PDF viewer, as well as Retina and touch support. The release notes are available, as is a list of changes for devs."

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Re:Quit whining

[girlintraining]

Honestly, your whining is counterproductive.

And your narrow-mindedness is annoying. Do you know why Microsoft only releases patches once a month for its operating systems? Because corporate environments can become violently ill when something is updated without it being tested first. You call it whining and say your customers are backward, but I see customers that prefer to not jump in head first into a pool they can't see the bottom of. That's why Chrome, Firefox, etc., aren't the most-used browsers.

Hell, even Linux has a stable and development branch. With Firefox, the stable branch might as well be the development branch. Plugins become outdated with every new release because they changed something in the API, or the way this feature works, or what that variable contains.

And for the record, a product that doesn't need to be updated is something some programmers strive for: It means they've made something that does its job so well there's no need to change it. That's not whining: That's damn good engineering.