Firefox 14 released

Firefox 14 has just been released, marking a release oriented towards user security improvements, connection's visual representations and new developer-specific tools.

The new 14 version introduces a more secure manner of searching via Google, "to protect your data from potentially prying eyes", meaning, searching on Google through the addressbar, right-click menu and/or the search box is now transmitted to Google via a secure connection (HTTPS), consequently, "you won’t notice a difference in how you search, but your Google search suggestions and search results will be presented through a secure web site".

Firefox 14 gained a refined, cleaner approach when dealing with websites' favicon, as such: displaying a gray-ish glob for regular websites, a gray-ish lock icon and https for SSL-enabled sites and a green lock and the site name for websites featuring Extended Validation Certificate.

As related to developers, the 14 release adds new under-the-hood enhancements, useful to optimize games to properly manage mouse controls.

Firefox 14 is to probably land in Ubuntu via the Update Manager in the next hours/days.

As a manual alternative, Firefox 14 is available for download on http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/