Mozilla Firefox 15 released, comes with numerous tweaks

In its battle with Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari, Mozilla has up the ante and has started releasing new versions of its popular web browser at break-neck speeds. The latest version, 15, released earlier in the day, comes with a number of goodies relating to security, stability, gaming and performance.
Notably, in this update Mozilla has ramped up the support for WebGL, the open standard for gaming on the web. The new release adds support for compressed textures, which make better use of graphics card memory,  and allows developers to use higher-resolution textures in their games.
Besides this, Firefox 15 adds support for high resolution timing APIs which will give developers the chance to control interactive content down to the thousandth of a millisecond. This update will make Firefox, at least for the time being the definitive web browser for gaming on the web, with its unprecedented support for open web technologies like HTML5, WebGL and JavaScript.
To showoff some of these new found capabilities of the browser, Mozilla showed off a demo of a first person shooter called BananaBread that is based off the Cube 2: Sauerbraten 3D gaming engine. While this game is also compatible on Google Chrome, no other browser supports it and its performance on the new Firefox was remarkably better.
With Firefox 15, Mozilla is also plugging memory leaks and has optimized the auto-update process by enabling background updating. There is even something for coders as Mozilla has added a Javascript debugger in the web browser that allows developers to analyze locally-running applications, apart from also enabling the ability to network to debug JavaScript applications running on Firefox for Android.
Mozilla left no stone un-turned and also updated the tablet version of FireFox for Android. The new tablet browser not only comes with a redesigned UI, but also adds long asked for features like the ability to switch between mobile and desktop websites. One can access information like browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and form data right off the home screen.
For Android Honeycomb tablets, Firefox even adds support for new Flash based apps, videos and HTML5 websites. As it is based off the desktop version of the app, the tablet version of Firefox maintains support for security features like  Do Not Track, Master Password, HTTP Strict Transport Security as well.
The previous version of Firefox for Android was compatible with all Android 2.1 devices and beyond. Things have changed a bit with this release as Mozilla has dropped support for Android 2.1 and Firefox will now only work on devices running Android 2.2 Froyo and beyond.