Mozilla has released the latest stable version of world’s popular browser Firefox 22. You can download Firefox 22 for Windows, Mac, and Linux right now. This update brings a some of the new features to the browser, security fixes and improvements of the old features.
What is New in Firefox 22
Firefox 22 has come with following new features,
WebRTC is now enabled by default
WebRTC means Real-Time Communications, technology that enables audio/video streaming and data sharing between browser clients. WebRTC provides any browser with the ability to share application data and perform teleconferencing peer-to-peer, without the need to install plug-ins or third-party software.
Scaling Options in Windows
Firefox 22 will follow the default display scaling options in Windows OS. If you have the larger display, the text will be rendered larger.
You can also change the Windows Scaling Options (Font size etc.) for Firefox only. To change that,
- visit about:config page in Firefox and confirm the waring message that you ‘ll be careful.
- Type or copy and paster this text layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in search box to filter out the font scaling values
- Double Click and change the value. The changes will take effect immediately. You can also reset the value to default there.
HTML5 audio/video playback
In Firefox 22, you can change the playback speed of HTML Video and Audio. This Option only works, if the video player uses native HTML 5 Player. So It won’t work in YouTube HTML 5 mode, since it uses its own HTML 5 Player.
Security Fixes
Mozilla has fixed the various security vulnerabilities in this latest version of Firefox 22. You can access the full security fixes and known vulnerabilities here.
- The | Components | object is no longer accessible from web content.
- MFSA 2013-62 Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation
- MFSA 2013-61 Homograph domain spoofing in .com, .net and .name
- MFSA 2013-60 getUserMedia permission dialog incorrectly displays location
- MFSA 2013-59 XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context
- MFSA 2013-58 X-Frame-Options ignored when using server push with multi-part responses
- MFSA 2013-57 Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested frame elements
- MFSA 2013-56 PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior
- MFSA 2013-55 SVG filters can lead to information disclosure
- MFSA 2013-54 Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks
- MFSA 2013-53 Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event
- MFSA 2013-52 Arbitrary code execution within Profiler
- MFSA 2013-51 Privileged content access and execution via XBL
- MFSA 2013-50 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
- MFSA 2013-49 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:22.0 / rv:17.0.7)
Other Changes
- New HTML5 and
- Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates
- Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon
Download Firefox 22
Download: Firefox 22.0 for Windows | 20.8 MB (Freeware)
Download: Firefox 22.0 for Linux | 24.1 MB
Download: Firefox 22.0 for MacOS | 40.6 MB
