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Firefox 5 Release



Firefox 5 .Also on-board Firefox 5 The ability to play CSS animations, and the capability to instantly tinker with Firefox add-ons, without slowing down the show or shutting off the browser.
Still, Firefox 5 has generally greeted in the tech blogosphere with a collective shrug. Firefox currently lags behind Internet Explorer but ahead of Google Chrome in terms of market share. By continually updating Firefox, Mozilla is keeping its horse smack dab in the middle of the race.
If you like the browser but would prefer even more speed, though, there is an alternative in Pale Moon 5, which was released today.
The crash reporter has gone as it requires server-side support that isn't available at the Pale Moon site. We compared Firefox 5 and Pale Moon 5 using three popular benchmarks, to help us find out. SunSpider 0.9.1 placed Pale Moon in front for most of its tests. It was a similar story with Dromaeo, which reported that Pale Moon 5 was up to 24 percent faster in trig calculations, and a notable better performer in the important DOM-related tests, but was also 4 percent faster overall (see the full test results on the Dromaeo site). Pale Moon has one available right now.
Mozilla posted the release candidate just three days ago.
Web development tweaks are in unusually short supply, too. There's support for CSS animations, a technology that makes it easy for developers to create simple web animations, even if they don't know JavaScript. But while the 5.0 beta release notes talked about "improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas", how noticeable these will be is still open to question: we ran Firefox 4.01 and 5.0 at HTML5test.com and they both returned identical scores.
What seems much more interesting to us were the promised improvements in memory and networking performance. We ran a few tests on a Windows 7 system, with some encouraging results.
Forget the lack of visible changes, then. Firefox 5 does have several interesting additions under the hood.

Firefox 5 Release

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