Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 17 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition in this release is click-to-play plugins, announced back in October. In short, the addition means Mozilla will now prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight (more will be added eventually)."
The release notes are available, as is a list of changes for devs. Firefox for Android got a new release as well (notes).
exponential version numbers (Score:5, Funny)
I've ran the numbers through our compute cluster here at JPL and have determined that Firefox version numbers are on an exponential climb and will reach critical mass and achieve self awareness around the 20th or 21st of December THIS YEAR with the creation of a singularity on the entire planet's web browser population.
The Mayans knew... the Mayans knew...
Re:exponential version numbers (Score:3, Funny)
So did the programmers. I mean, just look at what is happening in that icon?
Re:Still no Retina support for OS X (Score:5, Funny)
Thank goodness Chrome is not updated like Firefox or anything. Then we would have a problem.