Firefox 5.0 Final is Here

Firefox 5.0 Final is now available for download
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online. Firefox 5.0 Final contains a number of new features, stability improvements and security fixes over the previous release.

What's new in Firefox 5.0
Firefox 5.0 contains a number of new features, stability improvements and security fixes including:
  • Added support for CSS animations.
  • Added support for switching Firefox development channels.
  • 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.
  • Fixed several stability issues.

Security fixes;
  • MFSA 2011-28 Non-whitelisted site can trigger xpinstall. [Low]
  • MFSA 2011-27 XSS encoding hazard with inline SVG. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2011-26 Multiple WebGL crashes. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-25 Stealing of cross-domain images using WebGL textures. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2011-22 Integer overflow and arbitrary code execution in Array.reduceRight(). [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-21 Memory corruption due to multipart/x-mixed-replace images. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-20 Use-after-free vulnerability when viewing XUL document with script disabled. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-19 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:3.0/1.9.2.18). [Critical]

Download Mozilla Firefox 5.0 Final:
Download links are available below:

System requirements
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit)
Hardware
  • Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
  • 512MB of RAM
  • 200MB of hard drive space

Source: Mozilla Firefox 5.0 Final Release Notes

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