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
Firefox and sixth-fastest browsers, respectively, on startup, 3.5 was third- and 3.6 was sixth-fastest to load nine tabs at once, 3.5 was sixth- and 3.6 was fifth-fastest on the JavaScript tests. They also concluded that Firefox 3.6 was the most efficient with memory usage followed by Firefox 3.5. In February 2012, "Tom's Hardware" performance tested Chrome 17, Firefox 10, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11.61, and Safari 5.1.2 on Windows 7. "Tom's Hardware" summarized their tests into four categories: Performance, Efficiency, Reliability, and Conformance. In the performance category they tested HTML5, Java, JavaScript, DOM, CSS 3, Flash, Silverlight, and WebGL (WebGL 2