Firefox 5 is already here

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  • — 19 Jun, 2011

Everybody was shocked after seeing Mozilla Firefox’s ambitious Roadmap of releasing Firefox 7 by the end of this year ( 2011 ).  But it seems the Roadmap would be followed and we could see quick releases of next versions soon.

Ahead of time, Mozilla has silently release the Release Candidate of Firefox 5 and the files are up to download on their FTP servers. It hardly been 12 weeks since Firefox 4 release and we already have the final version of the next version of Firefox.

Download links : Mozilla (Linux), (Mac), (Windows)

Firefox 5 Features :

  • Added support for CSS animations
  • The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
  • Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
  • Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
  • Improved spell checking for some locales
  • Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
  • WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
  • Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
  • The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removed
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