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2Firefox 23 Recently Updated on Windows
The most recent stable update for Firefox is version 23, first released Aug. 6. An incremental Firefox 23.0.1 update issued Aug. 16 fixed a trio of bugs in spell-checking, video and audio features.
3Firefox 23 Runs Well on Mac OS X
4Firefox 23 Is the Default Browser for Many Linux Distributions
5Firefox 24 Beta Closes Tabs to the Right
Mozilla currently has Firefox 24 available as a preview in its Beta channel. The new release includes the ability for users to “Close Tabs to the Right.” Jared Wein, senior software engineer at Mozilla, wrote in a blog post: “When we open new tabs, they appear on the end, and so naturally tabs that have a longer lifetime end up being promoted to the start-side of the bar. This leads us towards the situation where closing tabs ‘to the right’ is a simple way of closing the ephemeral tabs.”
6Firefox 24 Beta Introduces the Browser Console
7Firefox 25 Alpha Now in Aurora
8Firefox 25 Will Fix 3-Year-Old Flaw
It’s still early in the Firefox 25 development process, but at this point, at least one key flaw is set to finally be fixed. Bugzilla bug #483446 details a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) flaw that was first reported in March 2011 and is now set to be fixed with the Firefox 25 release.
9Firefox Nightly Release Shows a Possible Firefox 26
10Firefox 26 Nightly UX Shows Off New Interface
In order to see some of the possible interface components that the Australis strategy promises, you need to go to the Firefox Nightly UX branch. The new interface includes rounded tabs and a new menu layout.
11Firefox’s Possible New Menu System
The Firefox Nightly UX channel release is a place for Mozilla developers to test Australis User Interface ideas. As a Nightly test branch, interface elements shown here won’t necessarily be part of an upcoming browser release. One possibility currently in the mix is a new menu system at the right edge of the navigation bar.