Firefox 13 Release Notes

[Bigaldoc]

Firefox Notes - Desktop

I noticed the difference in vertical scrolling right away, smooth or not...

When I opened a new tab I got a shock...

[John Gray]

I'd be interested in disabling this New Tab feature, since "too much information"!

[PaulB]

John, open a new tab then click on the 3x3 graphic in the upper right corner of the new window. No more "too much information"!

[TonyE]

To revert to using a blank tab without the option to show the 9 sites, you can change a preference in the about:config page.

Locate the preference browser.newtab.url and double-click on it and change its value to about:blank

[John Gray]

Thanks, folks - "all gone"!

[Bigaldoc]

I like Paul's method because you can always click it back on if you like without messing with the config settings.

(I'm still trying to "adjust" to the smooth scroll option because it's not bad but will take a little getting used to, visually. So I don't want to turn it off, which can be done in Options/Advanced.)

[Bigaldoc]

Of no matter to anyone probably, but I finally turned OFF both the smooth scrolling and new tab thingies. Both were getting a tad annoying to me.

[TonyE]

For info there is going to be a Firefox 13.0.1 released, probably on Friday. It will contain 3 fixes:

• Fix an issue with Hotmail auto-updates not working
• CSS 'height' property on a multi-column block is not respected
• Some combinations of Hebrew vowels and consonants not displayed in certain fonts with harfbuzz

Separate from the 13.0.1 update, Mozilla blocked the Real Player Browser Record plugin yesterday as it was causing problems with Flash 11.3. The block will be enabled once the new blocklist is downloaded. This process is automatic with Firefox checking for an updated blocklist once a day.