Mozilla has uploaded the final Firefox 5 to its FTP servers, ahead of the scheduled date as it was expected to get release on 21 June.
The latest version Firefox looks similar to its previous version. The change that you will notice easily is the tracking feature (options->privacy). User’s information will not be collected if we enable that option. There are some other newly added features which may not be identified by users. Mozilla has done some sort of improvement in JavaScript integration, Networking and Memory usage.
Firefox 5 Update:
- Includes 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
At the moment the official Mozilla web site is still showing Firefox 4 the previous stable version of browser for download but you can grab the final Firefox 5 via links below.
Download Firefox 5 for Windows (32-bit)
Download Firefox 5 for Mac
Download Firefox 5 for Linux
Download Firefox 5 for Android
