The latest version of Firefox is available for download, bringing some speed increases, better integration with OS X for Mac users, and lots of stability improvements.
You won’t see it on the official Mozilla page yet, but the download is up and ready to go ahead of tomorrow’s official release. This new version includes:
- Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
- 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
ExtremeTech is reporting 20 to 30 per cent increases in speed compared to Firefox 8, due to the new type interference feature in its JavaScript engine. For the full list of changes, check out Mozilla’s full changelog. Hit the links below to download the new version.
Firefox 9 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux [Mozilla via ExtremeTech
Drew
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 1:13 PMYawn, who cares. Chrome destroys Firefox for speed.
Stuzz
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 2:03 PMYou should try Opera
little-vince
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 1:28 PMOpera is the worst. Took about 10x longer than Internet Explorer and IE sucks balls. Chrome ftw.
Matt
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 6:48 PMI would switch to chrome, but it is missing a few minor UI things – no live bookmarks (I find them much better than a feed reader) and the lack of a dropdown for the location bar (those quick shortcuts with the mouse save me a lot of effort).
warcroft
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 5:51 PMWhat? Didnt we just get 8.0 a week ago?
Nicholas
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 5:58 PMWith 6 and 7 a week before that…
warcroft
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 6:08 PMSo its not just me then. . .
steven
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 8:14 PMHaha, a new version per week, fast enough,uh?
All the browser update themselves frequently.
That’s why I rather stay with my Avant browser and sit there to see each update of other browsers.