History of Firefox updates automatically update Firefox to the latest version without notifying the user, a feature that the web browsers Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 and above have already implemented, although the user is able to disable that function. Mozilla improved regular startup time for Windows users. Firefox 16 was released on October 9, 2012. Plans for this version called for fixing of bugs still outstanding involving support of new features in Mac OS X Lion, improvements to startup speed when a user wants to restore a previous session, and support for viewing PDF files inline without a plugin. Opus audio
SPDY following the recent final ratification of the HTTP/2 standard, support for SPDY would be deprecated, and that support for SPDY would be withdrawn. Google removed SPDY support in Google Chrome 51. Mozilla removed it in Firefox 50. , the group developing SPDY stated publicly that it was working toward standardisation (available as an Internet Draft). The first draft of HTTP/2 used SPDY as the working base for its specification draft and editing. Implementations of SPDY exist in Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Amazon Silk, Internet Explorer, and Safari, with the implementations for Chromium and Firefox being open source software. In February