Firefox 33 is out for Both Desktop and Android with Some New Additions

Firefox 33 is out now and you will see the option to upgrade it the next time you open it. The new features will benefit both developers and End users. For developers, in the style editor there is a media sidebar added and paint flashing tool also added. The search function and session restore has also improved, increasing End user overall experience. For Firefox Android, paint flash tool is added for developers and option to delete data while closing the app and the ability to stream videos for Roku and chromecast is added for End users.

Firefox 33 for Desktop

Search experience Improved

Firefox has done two things to speed up the process of search. Now it will provide search suggestions on both home page and new tab page. Additionally, now when you will enter a single word or numeric it will provide suggestions faster because in prior version it looked for the search term in locally hosted sites, now it will search online first and local search will be done in the background.

Session Restore more responsive

Session restore failure had been quite an issue with previous versions and also very annoying. With Firefox 33 update session restore is more responsive now and you will see quite less messages about its failure.

Media Sidebar in Style editor

A new bar has been added in Style editor. If any media rules are used, it will show links and rules of line numbers of CSS sheet.

Firefox 33 for Android

While closing Firefox clear all the data

Whenever you close Firefox you can now delete all the data associated with it. You can go to Settings>Privacy and choose which data you want to be deleted when Firefox is closed. Once customized, it will delete all the data which you have selected.

Paint Flashing Tool

Paint flashing tool is created for developers and is available for both Android and Desktop. In desktop you can open developer tool bar and enter ‘Paintflashing on’ to turn it on. For activation of this feature in Android, go to settings>Developer Tools and choose the Paint Flashing option. Paint flashing function is to highlight parts of pages which are repainted for example by scrolling or hovering cursor over a page element. This helps in spotting if the browser is painting more than it needs.