
Social API and support for the Facebook Messenger are the big ticket items for Firefox 17 along with click-to-play block-listing for preventing vulnerable plug-ins from executing without the user's consent. There's also an updated Awesome Bar, SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint have been implemented, Maps and Sets improvements in JavaScript, developer improvements, a SandBox attribute for iframes, over twenty performance improvements, and many fixes.
More details on Firefox 17.0 for all major platforms can be found out from the open-source web browser's release notes.
Meanwhile the Norwegians released today Opera 12.11 to provide security and stability improvements to their multi-platform web-browser.
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