Mozilla announced its final release candidate was available for download yesterday and is planning on releasing version 5 next week.
The new FF5 comes with:
- Added 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; and
- The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removed.
Mozilla has adapted a new rapid-release schedule similar to Chrome, introducing small updates in each new version. Firefox 4 was released just three months ago, and versions 6 and 7 are expected to be released later this year too.
I hope they start forcing auto-updates like Chrome as well, its getting tedious to constantly have to test in several versions of the same browser to ensure backwards compatibility!
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