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Firefox 5 Now Available For Download

While the official announcement of Mozilla Firefox 5 Final release is still not made, as happened in the past the Firefox 5 Final release build is already available on official Mozilla FTP servers, open to public access. The official scheduled date for Firefox 5 launch is after two days on 21st June, but the download is now online so nobody is stopping us to enjoy it before release date.

Mozilla Firefox 5

Direct download links for Firefox 5 Windows, Linux and Mac versions, change-log and a memory usage comparison to Firefox 4 posted after the jump.

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
  • Added support for CSS animations
  • The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
  • Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
  • Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
  • Improved spell checking for some locales
  • Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
  • WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
  • Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
  • The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removed

As there were talks of improved memory handling in Firefox 5 and the announcement of Mozilla's mission MemShrink, I was hoping for some measurable affects here but this does not seems to be the case with this release. Below is a comparison of Firefox 4 and Firefox 5 in real-life scenario both having same numbers of tabs loaded on same computer configuration.

Firefox 4 Vs Firefox 5 Memory Usage Comparison

Firefox 4
Firefox 4 Memory Usage

Firefox 5
Firefox 5 Memory Usage

Firefox 5 Direct Download Links :

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Sweet. Thanks you for post.

What username and password for download firefox 5??

I think I will stay with the latest version of 3.0

LOL! v3.0 .. haha

version 3 aint the lastest version version 4 is the lastest version and version 5 is the beta lol

version 4 is sucks
will see how v5 is otherwise will stick to v3

I got "permission denied"

6:25 pm CST

Thanx for your post I appreciated
Best regards to all;

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