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17 Feb 2012
Although it ships with few new features, Firefox 10 is here and it's faster, ships with a better extension manager and more.
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Type: Full commercial application
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64-bit
Manufacturer: Mozilla
Size: 13MB
Price: Free
Firefox puts you in control of your Web experience. With a streamlined user interface, fun new features, enhanced performance and the newest open web technologies, Firefox delivers the future of the web, today.
Firefox 4 presented a fresh new look and features like App Tabs and Panorama, Firefox makes it easier and more efficient to navigate the Web. Firefox Sync is integrated into Firefox, giving you access to your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs and passwords across computers and mobile devices. Firefox respects your privacy and safeguards your security with new features, like Do Not Track and Content Security Policy. Firefox also includes performance enhancements to make everything faster, from start-up time to page-load speed, and the performance of Web applications and games. Depending on the benchmark you choose, Firefox is anywhere between two and six times faster. Vroom!
New HTML5 capabilities in Firefox enable developers to create fun Web apps and websites. Firefox HTML5 support includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces, the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more. Firefox brings all this to the Web to allow developers to build the next generation of amazing, unpredictable, world-changing Web applications.
Only a few weeks ago, Firefox 5 was released as a major upgrade to the web browser, albeit with fewer new features. The main improvements are performance and "under the hood" tweaks.
Firefox 6 offered small number of new features (there are only 6 weeks between each release). One new addition is the Permissions Manager which, by typing about:permissions in to your address bar, you can set permissions for pop-up windows, cookies, passwords and more. Performance is improved and additional support for HTML5 is included. Firefox 7 offered a number of improvements to memory management, a smaller memory footprint, awesome bar changes and more under-the-hood improvements.
The brand new Firefox 10 offers much improved extension management, silent updates, improved location bar and more.
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Firefox 10 UGH!
This download has prevented me from accessing some websites even those in Bookmarks. Have recently gone over to W. 7 so very disapponted. Now hope for a correction from Mozilla. Not pleased.
Posted by: dorothy cook 08 Feb 2012
This page is horribly out of date, pls fix it
As of now, the download is v8 but the spiel talks about v 6/7 and the comments go from v 6 back to v 4 This is plain silly - pls FIX IT Sir Jim is nor longer about - you'll have to DIY !!!!
Posted by: ches whistler 09 Nov 2011
Breaking News
When are we going to see a version that does NOT disable its own arbitrary selection of add-ons? This is very bad practrice. We have add-ons because we need them, and disabling them in newer versions is just plain wrong. Why not offfer a version that ensures that all add-ons remain fully finctional ?
Posted by: nenemesis 01 Oct 2011
Roboform support?
Does it support Roboform prroperly? Version 6 broke my paid for Roboform and the only way to fix it is to pay for the latest version. Happily my Roboform still works with IE8 so I'm statrting to use that again - more and more.
Posted by: Bob Fearnley 30 Sep 2011
I don't think I'll try it yet.
I'm still happy with version 3.6.21 thank you and after the disasters of the dreadful Firefox 4, I'll wait until Firefox 8 comes out, when hopefully Mozilla will have got their act together. I won't hold my breath though!
Posted by: Don Phillips 06 Sep 2011
It's not the beta
Thanks for the comment. However, I can assure you that Firefox 6 wasn't the beta version. Mozilla sign-off and put the final build on their servers approximately 48 hours before it's released on their website. The reason is that they have to synchronise the file(s) across all their worldwide mirrors and, of course, update the content on their website. Download sites around the world link to this final build early. It is the final build. However, the release notes you see when you first open the browser still say it's the beta release. These are simply the release notes that haven't yet been updated on the Mozilla server. You can choose to ignore these. These notes will change and will be updated when Mozilla put Firefox 6 on their website (which is now live). In future we've decided not to follow other "downloads" sites and won't put these final builds live before they are released by Mozilla as it can lead to confusion. Hope this helps. Chris.
Posted by: Chris Wiles 16 Aug 2011
Incompatibility with Norton & Google toolbars
It doesn't support Norton Identity Safe: same problem as with Firefox 5.0. Can't Mozilla and Norton get their acts together? Same problem with Google Toolbar; never resolved for 5.0 and still there in 6.0
Posted by: Rog 16 Aug 2011
Beta...
Its not nice to put BETA version of programs...(w/o tagging it as BETA)
Posted by: Chris 16 Aug 2011
mozilla 5 bugs?
Comes up with 3 error messages on startup and looks are not that good
Posted by: Mick2a 12 Jul 2011
google
updated to F5 on my windows 7 but i get a message that it does not support my google toolbar.
Posted by: stef 24 Jun 2011
glitches
it messed up my configurations, performances, and add-ins. Unhappy....
Posted by: africapeace.org 26 Mar 2011
message
i like mozzila fire fox4.it's very good
Posted by: udien 22 Mar 2011
Waw
Mozila is the best
Posted by: Kiki sanjaya 21 Mar 2011
nice!!!
woowwww very nice
Posted by: pankpangk 21 Mar 2011