Aurora is a developmental channel for new Mozilla Firefox releases. It is designed to showcase the more experimental builds of Firefox. The Aurora channel allows users to experience the newest Firefox innovations in an unstable environment and provide feedback on features and performance to help determine what makes the final release.
What’s New
- When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited page
- The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
- SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites (CHANGED)
- Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup (CHANGED)
- Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default (CHANGED)
- The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more (CHANGED)
- 72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
- Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
- The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to theelement
- The CSS turn <angle> unit is now supported