[vip_students] Firefox 4 beta
- From: "Scanlon, Tony" <tony.scanlon@xxxxxx>
- To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:56:04 +0100
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor The Telegraph
Published: 3:59PM BST 07 Jul 2010
Firefox has released the first public beta of version 4 of its popular
web browser Browser maker Mozilla has released the first public beta
version of Firefox 4. The major upgrade includes support for a range of
new web technologies, imporoved performance and a new interface.
The new version is available for Mac, Linux and Windows, but only
Windows users are offered the new interface automatically. In other
versions, however, it can be switched on manually.
The most significant change in the new interface is a move towards
Google Chrome-style tabs placed above the address bar, which Mozilla is
calling "tabs on top". Writing on the organisation's blog, director Mike
Beltzner wrote that "We moved the tabs to the top to make it easier to
focus on the web content and easier to control the tools in your Web
browser. Also, if you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista the Menu bar was
replaced with a single Firefox button so you can get to the most used
options with just one click."
Also in common with Chrome, Firefox 4 now has improved crash protection,
so that if one tab crashes the entire browser is not also affected.
The browser also now supports the HTML5 web language and Google's WebM
video standard.
Firefox currently accounts for approximately a quarter of all web
browsers; Beltzner said updates to version 4's beta would be issued
every two to three weeks, and that a final build would be available by
the end of November
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