Firefox 22 release

Firefox for desktops has become available for download. What's new in this version:

• Firefox now uses the text scaling options specified for the display, which allows it to increase the text size on high-resolution displays (available only for Windows).
  To scale to fit your needs in about: config, find the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx parameter and set the value you need;
• In OS X, the file upload indicator now appears on the Firefox icon;
• A new section “Services” has been added to the add-ons manager to manage add-ons for social services;
• Added support for H.264 video and AAC and MP3 audio for Windows Vista;
• Integration of the optimizing OdinMonkey module with the implementation of support for Asm.js;
• CSS3 Flexbox and WebRTC are enabled by default;
• Web Notifications API support;
• The ability to change the playback speed of audio and video content, access to which is organized through the means of HTML5;
• Improved WebGL rendering performance - for this , the technique of asynchronous update of layers specified via canvas is used;
• Reduced memory consumption and time spent on rendering images (bugs 1 and 2 ). Support for multi-stream image decoding is also provided ;
• Text files are now displayed with word wrap;
• To ensure the safety of users, the object | Components | now not available to access from web content;
• HTML5 support for time and data ;
• The Pointer Lock API can now be used in windowed mode;
• An implementation of the clipboardData API for performing typical clipboard operations from a JavaScript web application, such as cut, copy, and paste;
• Two new tools have been added to the Inspector (Ctrl + Shift + I): Font Inspector and Paint Flashing ;
• The about: plugins now shows the full path to the installed plugin. Before that, to find out the path to the folder with the plugin, you had to switch the plugin.expose_full_path
• High resolution faviconok support in HiDPI mode (if such mode is present in the operating system);
• Fixed problem with slow scrolling on some high-resolution touchpads.

Important: the new Firefox policy in relation to third-party cookies (“third-party cookies”) in this version is disabled due to the elimination of situations that led to false blockings.

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