Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Mozilla launches Firefox 13

Since Mozilla has adopted a cycle of quick updates in Firefox, it was difficult to find news on updates visible. Previously, the launch of a new version was much anticipated and celebrated with cake from Microsoft, but the latest versions have passed unnoticed by the media.


Fortunately, Firefox 13 broke this tradition and brings new features to the end user.The most visible change is certainly the new home page in Firefox. In addition to the traditional search box, there's a new bottom bar with icons that lead to the download manager, bookmarks, history of visited websites, themes and extensions manager, assistant synchronization and window browser options. We also have a giant button that loads the tabs open in the previous session. New home page in Firefox 13.

By clicking the button to restore the previous session, all the tabs appear at the top of the window, but they were not actually charged. That's because Firefox comes with a feature enabled by default, called Tabs on Demand. So even if you open multiple tabs at the same time, the content will only be charged when you click on the tab. This saves memory and also speeds up the startup speed of the browser.When opening a new tab, another novelty: thumbnails of most visited sites.

The proceedings began with Opera, Google Chrome arrived and is now also present in the red panda. Firefox automatically fills the rectangles with the most visited sites, but you can fix them permanently, or remove unwanted pages - either way, it is always better to access prohibited sites by private mode.

A novelty that appeared in about: support and should save the hair is the Restore button Firefox. If your browser is unusually slow or you just want to start all over again, just one click to reset all the settings and load only data such as passwords and favorites stored. No need to reinstall the browser, or create another profile.Crashed? Restores it solves.

Other minor changes were made: 13 Firefox now officially supports the protocol SPDY and should load more quickly the sites that make use of this technology (especially Google services like Gmail and Google Drive). Mozilla also included the smooth scrolling of pages, which makes navigation a little more enjoyable.Mozilla Firefox is expected to announce officially 13 until tomorrow, but the download in Portuguese of Brazil is now available for Windows, Linux 32-bit, 64 bit Linux and Mac OS X. If you do not have such a hurry, wait until the browser is automatically updated in a few hours.