Post: Firefox 4 Officially Ready to Download
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03-22-2011, 11:00 PM
#1
So what's new in Firefox 4?
Originally posted by another user
Fastest Firefox Ever
Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.
Streamlined Interface
App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.
Private and Secure Synchronization
Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.
Most Customizable
New Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.
Private and Secure
Do Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for behavioral advertising.
Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop “man in the middle” attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the log-in process.
Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.
Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:
The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games.
HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.
Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.
Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Simply reload the page to restart the plugin.
Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.
Streamlined Interface
App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.
Private and Secure Synchronization
Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.
Most Customizable
New Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.
Private and Secure
Do Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for behavioral advertising.
Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop “man in the middle” attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the log-in process.
Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.
Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:
The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games.
HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.
Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.
Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Simply reload the page to restart the plugin.
At the time of writing this story, I came across this on the the Mozilla site
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Download Firefox 4 at this link:
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What are your thoughts on Firefox 4. Are you using the beta already or are you going to upgrade?
Wow! I'm surprised
The total downloads has gone up heaps in a few hours!
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Thanks for reading!
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03-23-2011, 02:22 AM
#15
Originally posted by Troll
Nice one :y:
Hope it really is as good as it sounds
Hope it really is as good as it sounds
Yeah well, I've been using Firefox in the early 4.0 Beta stages and it had its problems back then. Most of them seem to be fixed which I'm happy about. Seems faster as well.
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Originally posted by Durk
i just got it, i like it and think it looks pretty nice... im a firefox fanboy though so probably biased
I'm a bit of a fanboy of Firefox as well :derp:
03-23-2011, 07:54 AM
#16
Kombust
At least I can fight
Originally posted by storm
Yeah well, I've been using Firefox in the early 4.0 Beta stages and it had its problems back then. Most of them seem to be fixed which I'm happy about. Seems faster as well.
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I'm a bit of a fanboy of Firefox as well
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I'm a bit of a fanboy of Firefox as well
Would you recommend this over chrome?
03-23-2011, 09:34 AM
#17
Originally posted by Troll
Would you recommend this over chrome?
Yeah I would. Chrome is great for it's simplicity but Forefox has so many themes and add-ons and themes to customize your experience.
As for issues of speed, Chrome has a very quick startup time but Firefox 4 comes pretty close to competiting with it.
Firefox 3 < Chrome
Firefox 4 > Chrome
(IMO)
Happy browsing!
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