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Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 27 for Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows (download). One of the big changes is enabling support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 by default. Firefox 27 also supports the SPDY 3.1 protocol. Developers got some new toys: support was added for ES6 generators in SpiderMonkey, the debugger will de-obfuscate JavaScript, and style sheets can be reset by using all:unset. Mozilla also announced some new social integration options. In addition to all these changes, the Android version got some UI improvements and font readability upgrades. For a future release, Mozilla is currently testing a new approach for Firefox Sync in Nightly builds. They recognized the headaches involved with how it works, and they're now opting to use a simple e-mail and password combination like Google Chrome does. In the old system, users were forced to store an auto-generated authorization code, which, if lost, would render their bookmarks, passwords and browsing history inaccessible. "

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  1. Do not want ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mozilla also announced some new social integration options

    I sincerely hope these are optional and not going to get rammed down our throats so Mozilla can collect more ad revenue.

    Because, quite frankly, I have no interest in having my web browser trying to integrate with social media.

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    1. Re:Do not want ... by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Informative

      I don't use social media so could care less about bloatware.

      I just want FF's memory leak to be fixed instead of the devs ignoring it version after version, year after year.

      Chrome's "Task Manager" that shows per tab it's Name, Memory, CPU Usage, Network Traffic and FPS still lacks any counter part in FF.

      Chrome uses more ram than any other browser according to benchmarks. FF the least. A lot has changed since 2011.

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  2. Re:Too late, switched to Chrome by chipschap · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used Chrome for quite a while but just switched back to Firefox. Chrome restricts things like downloading media (especially from YouTube) and doesn't work correctly on some ecommerce sites that I use. Firefox isn't (subjectively) that much slower than Chrome any longer and clearly has the widest choice of add-ons.

  3. Re:Too late, switched to Chrome by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chrome uses almost 300% more ram than FF or IE 11 on my system when I have +40 tabs opened.

    Tomshardware.com did some benchmarks that can confirm this. It even hit slashdot that FF 13 used the least amount of ram a year and a half ago.

    FF 4.0 != FF 25 and later and a lot has changed since 2011. I am tempted to switch back to Firefox as it is so light and quick now.

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  4. Re:Too late, switched to Chrome by archen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure a "Classic" version would help much, it's the Internet itself that's bloated. You can have the fastest browser ever, but you're still downloading all that social media crap with Javascript pulled from all corners of the globe. The fastest web browsing experience? Firefox with Adblock and NoScript.