Mozilla Puts Out Firefox 5.0 Web Browser

Posted by Michael Larabel on June 22, 2011

It was only in late March when Mozilla released Firefox 4.0, but under their new development practices that are similar to that of Google's Chrome web-browser, Firefox 5.0 was released yesterday.

Firefox 5 is delivered under what Mozilla refers to as a "rapid release development cycle" and this release carries over 1,000 improvements in just about three months of development. Among the changes this time around is the Do-Not-Track privacy feature for the Android port of Firefox, improved add-ons, CSS Animations support, and many other new features.

Some of the Mozilla Firefox 5 improvements are talked about in this blog post. As always, Firefox can be downloaded at Firefox.com.

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