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Shiny New Firefox for Christmas
Mozilla has released version 9 of their Firefox browser, introducing new features and tablet device stability.
Keeping in line with their promised quarterly release cycle, Mozilla’s flagship browser brings a new feature called Type Inference which allows JavaScript-heavy sites, including those that deliver games and video, to render much faster. Mac users running Lion will see two-finger swipe gesture support and visual updates to the browser to bring it in line with Lion’s look and feel.
Android tablet users will see a new look for the interface of the browser, with tabs hidden in portrait-mode orientation and some of the navigational controls slightly rearranged on the shell. Mozilla also claims some performance improvements for the tablet version. The layout is likely to change again soon, with the browser getting a native Android-code update in the near future.
(Source: CNet)
Epicentre Says: “Firefox has quite rightly dented Microsoft’s market share in recent years and looks set to continue that trend with their rapid release cycle. New features are generally well received in Firefox and they look set to retain the share they’ve gained over other browsers, having created a faithful Firefox audience. As with any new release of a browser, the updates may introduce unknown compatibility issues – Epicentre advises testing all of your web-based applications for any such issues.”
