Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Firefox is not dead, an insight into Firefox 5 !!!

The best web browser around(according to me) is trying to revamp and change its release strategy, Firefox will be now available on a Rapid Release Cycle, ie you can expect upto three or four new major releases every year.


Arguably this is in response to the alarmingly growing market share of the Chrome browser from Google. Firefox, in response to Chrome's dev, beta and stable releases, is offering aurora, beta and release versions.


The Rapid Release Cycle will be Kicked off with Firefox 5,  the sixth and seventh version of FF will also come out this year. The stable release version of Firefox 5 is slated to him the web at around 21st of the next month (21 June).
Mozilla has rectified some major bugs, and has added support for HTML 5 animations. Also the change version button near the about aurora, button in FF lets you switch between the aurora, beta and release versions smoothly without re-downloading and re-installing stuff.

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