Mozilla Firefox 9 Unleashed
TechieDan loves the new Mozilla Firefox 9.0.1 that was just unleashed recently as of date of writing. Well, considerably there was significant increase of speed in this new browser. It was only just June when Firefox 5.0 was released to the public and we now finally have version 9.
The browser looks promising as Firefox greeted its users with a new splash screen which is more of their color. What is new?
- Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
- Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
- Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- Added support for font-stretch
- Improved support for text-overflow
- Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
What features TechieDan was more concerned of was the one highlighted in bold. With the surprising new HTML5 garnering more support, it will be great when one day we can make do with all the obsolete HTML code style.
Up till now Firefox has been the most used browser for developers due to its capabilities to incorporate plugins like Firebug (help designers to locate CSS, Javascript problem), Youtube Downloader (plugin to download movies from the web) and many more. It has been a major year as the year 2011 will close in another 2 days time and thank you Mozilla for finally releasing the latest release before the close.
Once again, Happy New Year to all the readers here.
