Download Firefox 16 Final

Firefox 16 contains a number of performance improvements and many new features. Firefox 16 makes developing for the Web faster and easier with a new Developer Command Line. This new tool provides easy keyboard control over Firefox Developer Tools and is intuitive, completing commands and parameters for you.

In addition, Firefox 16 unprefixes a number of stable features including: CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms, Image Values, IndexedDB and Values and Units. Firefox 16 also unprefixes Battery API and Vibration API, two Web APIs that Mozilla helped create.

Download Firefox 16 Final:
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you:

• Download Firefox 16 Final (All Systems & Languages)
• Download Firefox 16 Final for Windows (32-bit)

What's new in Firefox 16 Final
Firefox 16 Final has the following changes:

New:

• Firefox on Mac OS X now has preliminary VoiceOver support turned on by default.
• Initial web app support (Windows/Mac/Linux).
• Acholi and Kazakh localization added.

Changed:

• Improvements around JavaScript responsiveness through incremental garbage collection.

Developer:

• New Developer Toolbar with buttons for quick access to tools, error count for the Web Console, and a new command line for quick keyboard access.
• CSS3 Animations, Transitions, Transforms and Gradients unprefixed in Firefox 16.
• Recently opened files list in Scratchpad implemented.

Fixed:

• Debugger breakpoints do not catch on page reload (783393).
• No longer supporting MD5 as a hash algorithm in digital signatures (650355).
• Opus support by default (772341).
• Reverse animation direction has been implemented (655920).
• Per tab reporting in about:memory (687724).
• User Agent strings for pre-release Firefox versions now show only major version (728831).

Security fixed:

• MFSA 2012-87 Use-after-free in the IME State Manager. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-86 Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-85 Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-84 Spoofing and script injection through location.hash. [High]
• MFSA 2012-83 Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) does not disallow acces to privileged functions or properties. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-82 top object and location property accessible by plugins. [High]
• MFSA 2012-81 GetProperty function can bypass security checks. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-80 Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-79 DOS and crash with full screen and history navigation. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-78 Reader Mode pages have chrome privileges. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-77 Some DOMWindowUtils methods bypass security checks. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-76 Continued access to initial origin after setting document.domain. [High]
• MFSA 2012-75 select element persistance allows for attacks. [Critical]
• MFSA 2012-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards. (rv:16.0/ rv:10.0.8) [Critical]

Sources:
Firefox 16 Final Release Notes.
Wikipedia