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During this past week, there were a lot of comments and articles about Firefox 4, the latest release of this god like browser and everyone from housewives to web developers were basically on their toes about the whole thing.
As a little cub, it was introduce as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. Originally named Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project, finally on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox.
On February 2011, Firefox was second most widely used browser with 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers. It has had particular success in Germany with a 60% and Poland with 47% where it is the most popular browser.
Firefox 4 include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localization. It is based on the Gecko 2.0 engine, which adds/improves support for HTML5, CSS3, WebM, and WebGL. Also, it includes a new JavaScript engine and better XPCOM APIs.
Right now you can only work with Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4. With this update, a lot of extensions have become obsolete, so you have three options:
1) Look for another add-on who works the same
2) Change the configuration of the program.
3) Install "Add-on compatibility reporter"- which allows us to install any extension and report it to Mozilla if is working or not on Firefox 4.
With 4 millions downloads on the first day, it completely dethroned Internet Explorer 9 downloads (never the less remember our mission to get IE6 to 1%) and as good friends they send a cake in congratulations (check our main picture :D )
Here are some reasons you should get your update:
You should always be updated because in no time you won't even know how things work.
It has a fast download and fast installation process.
It has a new organization tag named Panorama.
More organized, less bottoms and the tags are on the title.
HTML5 and standards support
Awesome Bar, an evolution of the smart bar of Firefox 3.
Android and Maemo can run it in more than 10 languages from the Android Market and for download on your Maemo device. This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox. It brings the performance and customization of Firefox to mobile devices with features like Firefox Sync, Awesome Screen, tabbed browsing and Firefox Add-ons, to create a personalized and effortless mobile browsing experience.
Mozilla has improved Javascript performance with a new JgerMonkey Javascript engine that works alongside the existing one; it achieved an average score of 433, compared with 389 for IE9 on the same system.
Say good bye to unwanted spams, Mozilla Firefox 4 now supports the 'Do Not Track' feature, which flags up the user's request not to be tracked for advertising purposes.
