Firefox 19.0 Final Now Available for Download

Firefox 19.0 Final is now available for download from Mozilla download center. Firefox 19.0 features a built-in PDF viewer that safer, more seamless cross-platform experience for viewing PDF documents. Firefox 19.0 also offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config.

Firefox 19.0 warns users if programs to replace the awesomebar search provider with of theirs and allows the user to restore default search provider from the warning dialog shown on the screen.

Awesomebar search provider

Download Firefox 19.0 Final:
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Firefox 19.0 Final (Running on Windows 8)

New features in Firefox 19.0 Final
Firefox 19.0 Final has the following changes:
New:
  • Built-in PDF viewer.
  • Firefox will offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config.

Changed:
  • Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
  • Startup performance improvements (bugs 715402 and 756313)

Developer:
  • Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties.
  • Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
  • There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
  • Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor.

HTML5:
  • CSS @ page is now supported.
  • CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
  • CSS text-transform now supports full-width.

Fixed:
  • Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (802274)

Security fixed:
  • MFSA 2013-28 Use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2013-27 Phishing on HTTPS connection through malicious proxy. [High]
  • MFSA 2013-26 Use-after-free in nsImageLoadingContent. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2013-25 Privacy leak in JavaScript Workers. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2013-24 Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers. [High]
  • MFSA 2013-23 Wrapped WebIDL objects can be wrapped again. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2013-22 Out-of-bounds read in image rendering. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2013-21 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards. (rv:19.0 / rv:17.0.3) [Critical]

References:
Firefox 19.0 Release Notes.
Mozilla Firefox: Future Releases

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