Firefox 4 Released: Brings Windows XP GPU Rendering Support

Posted by newbie Wednesday, March 23, 2011 0 comments

Mozilla has released Firefox 4. The final build comes less than two weeks after Release Candidate 1. The company originally found no major problems in the RC1 build, and decided to release RC1 as the final version, but then changed its mind. An RC2 build was quietly pushed out on March 18, 2011 with a few fixes, and today the final bits appeared on Mozilla's servers. If you're already running a previous build of Firefox 4 you should see an automatic update starting tomorrow. Alternatively, you can download the final build directly for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux 32-bit/64-bit. The final version supports 83 languages.

New features in Firefox 4:

* New Tab Location
* Tabs for applications
* Easy switch to tab
* Synchronizing Settings
* Managing Add-ons made easy
* Panorama
* HTML 5 support
* Full Hardware Acceleration
* Organizing tabs made easy
* Firefox button for easy access and reduced clutter.