Firefox 5 Released !

Firefox has been taking a bruising in the browser wars at the hands of Chrome. Mozilla's watched Google's browser gain hordes of new adopters while its own market share sits dead in the water. Finally sick of watching Google get all the glory, Mozilla's instituted a fast-release schedule to get Firefox floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee again, and the first fruits of their labor are finally hitting the streets. Less than three months after Firefox 4 launched, Firefox 5 is now available for download.
If you're expecting major changes along the lines of Firefox 4's "Tabs On Top," you're going to be disappointed. Enhanced support for HTML5 and CSS animations are two of the biggest changes; Canvas, the 2D graphics application, has also been upgraded and several Android-specific enhancements were made, along with the usual collection of tweaks and bug fixes.
Mozilla plans on releasing a new iteration of Firefox every six weeks as part of its fast-track schedule, so we should be seeing Firefox 6 sometime around the beginning of August. Mozilla hopes that the rapid changes will let new features be added soon after they're completed, rather than forcing developers to wait several months for a new build.

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