Mozilla has released an official public beta of Firefox 5, available now for download. The company introduced the Firefox Aurora development channel in it, allowing users to have instant access to cutting-edge releases.
The new release enables users to quickly switch between development channels to test each stage of Firefox development and choose the one that they are most comfortable using.
The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:
- 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
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