Mozilla Firefox 37 released with new URL bar, security features and more

Mozilla Firefox 37 released with new URL bar, security features and more
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Mozilla Firefox 37 released with new URL bar, security features and more.Mozilla Firefox 37, the newest version of one of the most popular browsers in the world has been launched, and it comes equipped with a host of new features meant to improve the user experience.

Mozilla Firefox 37, the newest version of one of the most popular browsers in the world has been launched, and it comes equipped with a host of new features meant to improve the user experience. This update applies to both the Android and desktop (Windows, OS X and Linux) versions of the utility.

Available for download now on all these platforms, the Mozilla Firefox 37 update brings with it changes to the URL bar, new locales and improvements to the download performance on Android. Prime among the new additions on the desktop version of this browser is the Heartbeat user rating system. Mozilla plans to improve security with the new opportunistic encryption technology that has been designed to encrypt potentially sensitive data.

In order to make SSL/TLS certificate revocation more effective, Firefox 37 also integrates Mozilla’s OneCRL (Certificate Revocation List). It also brings in encryption of HTTP traffic. In the last version of the Firefox browser, Mozilla had introduced support for the new HTTP/2 network protocol.

Mozilla has also introduced Heartbeat, which is a complementary feedback mechanism.Firefox 37 for the desktop can be downloaded from Firefox.com, and existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The Android version will be made available on the Google Play store.

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