Late Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 5.0 of its Firefox web browser. The new version stands as an 27.8 megabyte download offered the following fixes and 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.
Firefox 5.0 requires an Intel-based Mac and Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run.
If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback, let us know.
One reply on “Mozilla releases Firefox 5.0 update”
Your headline stinks. There is no update for FF 5.0 but rather FF updated their browser to 5.0 from 4.01. Get it straight. You headline is misleading.