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Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 20 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The improvements include per-window private browsing, a new download manager in the Firefox toolbar, and the ability to close hanging plugins without the browser hanging. The new desktop version was available as of yesterday on the organization's FTP servers, but that was just the initial release of the installers. Firefox 20 has now officially been made available over on Firefox.com and all users of old Firefox versions should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on the official Google Play Store. The changelogs are here: desktop and Android."
Every time I upgrade to a newer version of Firefox, there's always some unwelcome surprise lurking in the shadows. From past experience:
- Butt-ugly default skin
- Fucking with the location bar icon
-"Tabs on top" option gone
- Outright refusal to run an outdated plugin on Flash (for various reasons, 11.2 is the last version that will work on portable Firefox)
- Broken extensions, always broken extensions
- Removal of status bar
- Default zaniness with hiding and showing the back/forward button
So what did they take away this time?
I don't understand why they don't natively incorporate download managers like DownThemAll into Firefox. Segmented transfers, speed limiting, link catchers...
I don't understand why Mozilla never just worked with the author of Download Statusbar to integrate it. That extension has been one of the most popular addons since it was released in 2004. In fact, the addons site show it is currently the 7th most-used plugin with 1,930,345 current users.
So Firefox is now at 20, Chrome is now at 26.
Looks like they are finally going to reach their goal of overtaking chrome.
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