Firefox 27.0 Beta 9 Now Available for Download

Mozilla has released Firefox 27.0 Beta 9 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. This update most likely brings stability improvements and bug fixes over the previous release.

What's new in Firefox 27.0 Beta?
Firefox 27.0 Beta desktop includes an update to the Social API that allows multiple social integration partners to send notifications at the same time. Prior to this update, users could only see notifications from the social provider they had indicated in their Firefox toolbar. Firefox 27.0 Beta also implemented support for TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246), and added support for SPDY 3.1 protocol as well.

Firefox for Android includes support for Lithuanian, Slovenian, South African English and Thai locales. Learn more about Firefox for Android here.

Download Firefox 27.0 Beta:
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.


Note:
  • Firefox 27 Final is scheduled to be released on February 4, 2014.
  • Please do NOT use this Firefox Beta release on production machines. A Firefox Beta release should be considered for evaluation and testing purposes.

What's new features in Firefox 27.0 Beta?
Firefox 27.0 Beta has the following changes:

New:
  • You can now run more than one service at a time with Firefox SocialAPI, allowing you to receive notifications, chat and more from multiple integrated services.
  • Implemented support for TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246).

Changed:
  • Added support for SPDY 3.1 protocol.

Developer:
  • Ability to reset style sheets using 'all:unset'.
  • You can now choose to deobfuscate javascript in the debugger (see 762761).
  • Added support for scrolled fieldsets (see 261037).
  • Implemented allow-popups directive for iframe sandbox, enabling increased security (see 766282).
  • CSS cursor keywords -moz-grab and -moz-grabbing have been unprefixed (see 880672).
  • Added support for ES6 generators in SpiderMonkey (see blog post).
  • Implemented support for mathematical function Math.hypot() in ES6 (see 896264).

HTML5:
  • Dashed line support on Canvas (see 768067).

You can find the full changelog here.

Reference:
Firefox Future Releases

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