Firefox 9 - The development continues

Again Mozilla anticipated dates of their browser availability and put in their FTP servers the latest version a few hours before the scheduled date. Most likely, as a user of Firefox, you probably be using Firefox version 8. Know then that you can now download and install Firefox version 9 available on Mozilla's servers. This version, scheduled for tomorrow, December 20 (actually today... it's 00H04 in Lisbon) , is already in the final version and various new features, this time associated with the integration with Mac OS X and the improvement of overall performance.

The development of Firefox is following the direction of what was drawn and new versions are being made ​​available to the rhythm set. The developers are focusing on improving the overall functioning of this browser and this new version was no different.

The new features improve the overall performance and therefore the Type Inference has been integrated, allowing a substantial improvement in JavaScript and processes associated with it. Expected to load times of pages with improvements in the order of 30%. Naturally, this improvement is associated with the presence of JavaScript on these pages.

Because this is a cross-platform browser, the team sought to integrate the Firefox developers more fully in the Mac OS. To this were improved integration of the themes of Firefox this operating system. It was also added the ability to use the swipe two fingers to control navigation in the browser (next or previous page).

Other improvements allow us to keep access to security functions, such as call via JavaScript to the state's Do Not Track. There was also the introduction of some new features of CSS3 such with the font-stretch and other improvements, such as text-overflow.

Overall improvements still covered some of the new Internet languages ​​such with HTML5, CSS3 and MathML, which will put the Firefox browser among the most modern and the latest features.

Of course, in addition to new features that were listed above, this version of Firefox tried to fix problems and bugs that previous versions had.

With this constant work to improve this browser continues to have a strong presence among netizens.

These and other important new features are already available for use and can not wait to do it, be the first to ensure the evolution of one of the best browsers available today.

Licence: Freeware
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac
Download: Firefox 9 Final Windows EN [14.6MB]
Download: Firefox 9 Final Linux EN 32Bits [17.8MB]
Download: Firefox 9 Final Linux EN 64Bits [16.1MB]
Download: Firefox 9 Final Mac EN [30.8MB]
Homepage: Firefox

Paulo Seichinha

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