Finally Mozilla Firefox 4 has been released and is ready to use worldwide. It took around 6 months from the Firefox Beta release. I’m quite impressed with Firefox 4 — it is faster and much more secure. And most importantly it is ready for HTML 5. The new era of HTML 5 is now here.
Here are some major new features in Firefox 4:
- Performance: it is 6 times faster than its predecessor.
- Natively supports HTML 5.
- Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords, and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.
- HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop “man in the middle” attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the login process.
- Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.
See more in this explanation video from Jonathan Nightingale of Mozilla:
So now Firefox 4 has better performance, is more secure, more flexible, and supports HTML 5. This makes Firefox 4 my top choice for a web browser.
Download Firefox 4 for Windows (12 MB)
Download Firefox 4 for Mac (27 MB)
Download Firefox 4 for Linux (15 MB)