Mozilla released the final version of Firefox and Thunderbird 12 12

Mozilla announces the availability of final versions of products Firefox and Thunderbird 12 12, free web-browser, open source and popular e-mail client.


Perhaps the supporters of these products will experience some frustration. Despite the new numbers, the application can not boast a large number of innovations.

In fact, users of Windows-systems is proposed, only one major improvement - a simplified installation procedure for updates. When you upgrade to a newer version of the browser no longer displays a dialog box User Account Control does not require the user to confirm their actions. In Firefox, 12 also presented the updated controls playback of multimedia content HTML5.

Other key innovations in the 12 version of Firefox are listed below:

Tool Page Source, intended for viewing code, learned to display line numbers.
In the Title attribute support for the transfer line.
The improved mechanism Find in Page displays search results in the center of the screen.
Automatic download address URL, inserted into the window manager downloads.
Support for the properties Text-Align-Last and Column-Fill in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Experimental support for a Map and Set in ECMAScript 6.
Fixed problems with decreased performance on some systems WebGL OS X.

The developers promise that more radical changes, including a transformed user interface, you will see in future versions of the browser. As far as this statement is true, we learn in the coming days. With the release of stable version of Firefox 12 previous experimental Firefox build 13 acquires the status of a full-fledged "beta."

Updated Thunderbird 12, as well as his older brother, can not boast a large number of new features. The only new feature that deserves special mention is the mapping of message fragments that match the query, the results of global search. Users are also offered improved mechanisms for processing subscriptions to the RSS-mailing and better quality treatment.

Another innovation presented in Thunderbird 12, is to support add-ons that allow use of alternative formats for storing e-mail. Instead of the default format customers will be able to use the Mbox MailDir or Sqlite. The proposed features are more focused on developers, but also able to motivate and experienced users.

As is the case with Firefox, the developers moved the most interesting announcements at a later date. In the version of Thunderbird, 13 will be implemented the ability to exchange files through the online store, which will eliminate the use of conventional e-mail attachments. In its users also will be tools that allow you to start instant messaging services (including the popular Twitter) directly from the interface Thunderbird. If you want to immediately familiarize yourself with these features, please download an early build Earlybird 13.0a2 or wait for the release of a beta version of Thunderbird 13 Beta.

Both products Firefox and Thunderbird 12 12 FINAL FINAL platforms are available for Windows, Mac and Linux.