Firefox 9.0 Final officially available

Firefox 9.0 Final is now officially available for download and update. Firefox 9.0 introduces support for Type Inference to Javascript engine which improving performance by 30%, along with other new features and improvements. The full details of changes are available in this version of Firefox are listed in the "What's new in Firefox 9.0" section.

Overview
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.

Download Firefox 9.0 Final:
Firefox 9.0 Final are available for download at website listed below:

What's new in Firefox 9.0
Firefox 9.0 has the following changes:
  • Added Type Inference to Firefox's Jägermonkey Javascript engine, improving performance by 30%
  • 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.
Security fixes:
  • MFSA 2011-58 Crash scaling [video] to extreme sizes. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-57 Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X. [High]
  • MFSA 2011-56 Key detection without JavaScript via SVG animation. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2011-55 nsSVGValue out-of-bounds access. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-54 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-53 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards. (rv:9.0) [Critical]

The full list of changes that are in Firefox 9.0 Final is available in the Firefox 9.0 Final Bug Fixes.

Source: Firefox 9.0 Final Release Notes.
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