Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox 10, their 6th ‘major update’ in the course of nine months. The new version brings extension management improvements, APIs for full-screen web apps, and anti-aliasing for WebGL.
- The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
- Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default
- Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented (see bug 615976)
- CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported (see bug 505115)
- New <bdi> element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties (see bugs613149 and 662288)
- Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen (see the feature page)
- We’ve added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
- Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
- FIXED – Mac OS X only – after installing the latest Java release from Apple, Firefox may crash when closing a tab with a Java applet installed (700835)
- FIXED – Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks (681795)
Firefox 10 is available now, and will silently and automatically update for existing users. The update is also available as a direct download for PC, Mac and Linux.
