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Notes (First offered to release channel users on January 18, 2013)
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think, or file a bug in Bugzilla.
If interested, please see the complete list of changes in this release.What’s New
Known Issues
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If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)
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For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual (see 579260)
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Animated Personas or Themes now require a workaround. See this support page
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Windows: The use of Microsoft's System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox may prevent future updates (see 730285)
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Mootools 1.2.x incompatible with Firefox 18 and newer.Fixed in Mootools 1.3 and newer (see 789036)
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Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (see 802274)
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Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages (see 825205)
Unresolved on v18 Resolved in v19 -
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Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (see 825734)
Unresolved on v18 Resolved in v19
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