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This software was checked for viruses Last month and was found to contain no viruses.
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Video tutorial for Firefox 4.0
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Review
This review applies to version 5.0
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Mozilla Firefox is one of the four leading web-browsers, the other three being MS Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Opera. The battle between them has been raging for years and seems to have no end. Firefox's weapons have always been its security and the huge number of various add-ons written by the users community. Since Firefox is open-source software, everybody who feels they have a streak of web design in them can try and create their own add-on or app customizing their browsing experience.
The release of Firefox 5 seems to be Mozilla's another attempt to score off its rivals by introducing some new features into the browser.
At a glimpse, there are not that many changes in Version 5.0.1 as compared to previous Firefox releases. However, if you take a look at the changelog on the developer's website, you may see that there are quite a lot of them, but they are mostly internal and affect the browser's machinery rather than interface. So, the log shows Mozilla patched some serious vulnerabilities, five of which were rated as critical by Mozilla, and fixed about a thousand bugs.
The major tangible new feature is the “Do not track” option made more accessible. Now it can be found under the “Privacy” option. Just tick the checkbox and you won't be tracked by websites any longer. This feature makes Firefox 5 the browser of choice for security-conscious users or the people who are tired of the annoying lack of privacy on the Internet. The “Do Not Track” option is also available on Android (Google's operating system for mobiles and tablets), which makes Firefox the first browser to support this feature on multiple platforms.
Other important changes in Firefox 5 include: support for CSS animation, improved support of HTML5 standards, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and the better support for JavaScript and canvas. In effect, it all means that your Web is going to be faster and more dynamic than in the previous versions. If you have ever used Firefox 4, you must know how frustrating its habit to slow down and fall over may be; version 5 is way more stable. But your nerves are not the only thing spared by Firefox 5: its memory use has also decreased, although it is still relatively high as compared to other popular browsers.
In short, Firefox 5 is a nice web-browser, focusing on the secure browsing experience. Even if you are a dedicated Chrome or IE user, Firefox 5 is worth giving it a chance. |
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- Relatively high memory use.
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Reviewed by: Keath Wyszynski Reviewer rating: Reviewed: 5 months ago
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What's new in version 4.0 beta
It supports the WebM format so you can watch open HD quality videos.
It fixes flaws in some web standards that allow bad guys to snoop around and expose your browser history.
New JS values
Multi-touch Support
Retained layers
Firefox starts up even faster thanks to XPCOM module improvements that pave the way to a better extensions framework.
Stylin’ Pages with CSS3
HTML5 Support
Web Console
JetPack SDK (Making Add-on Development Easier)
new Direct2D Hardware Graphics Acceleration (Windows only)
Crash Protection
new HSTS What's new in version 3.5
MFSA 2009-51 Chrome privilege escalation with FeedWriter
MFSA 2009-50 Location bar spoofing via tall line-height Unicode characters
MFSA 2009-49 TreeColumns dangling pointer vulnerability
MFSA 2009-47 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.3/1.9.0.14)
Fixed in Firefox 3.5.2
MFSA 2009-46 Chrome privilege escalation due to incorrectly cached wrapper
MFSA 2009-45 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.2/1.9.0.13)
MFSA 2009-44 Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via window.open() on invalid URL
MFSA 2009-38 Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters
Fixed in Firefox 3.5.1
MFSA 2009-41 Corrupt JIT state after deep return from native function
MFSA 2009-35 Crash and remote code execution during Flash player unloading
Fixed in Firefox 3.5
MFSA 2009-43 Heap overflow in certificate regexp parsing
MFSA 2009-42 Compromise of SSL-protected communication
MFSA 2009-40 Multiple cross origin wrapper bypasses
MFSA 2009-39 setTimeout loses XPCNativeWrappers
MFSA 2009-37 Crash and remote code execution using watch and __defineSetter__ on SVG element
MFSA 2009-36 Heap/integer overflows in font glyph rendering libraries
MFSA 2009-34 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1/1.9.0.12)
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