Firefox 5 rushed out

Not long after the release of Firefox 4 in late March, Mozilla has made Firefox 5 a release version. Noticeable new features include Do-Not-Track header preference and new CSS animation support. Apart from those, nothing much seems to be worth a huge version bump.

Firefox 5 can be downloaded from here.

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Release Notes for Firefox 5.0 is available here.

What's new in Firefox 5:

e latest version of Firefox has the following changes:

Added support for CSS animations
The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
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
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues
Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox 6 in late September, making it a 3-month cycle.

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Posted by Antony Shen on June 22, 2011 4:40 AM

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