Craciun Dan | June 21, 2011

After changing its stable release policy to a more accelerated pace, Mozilla released Firefox 5 pretty quick after the latest major Firefox version was put out. Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011 and this version follows only three months later. Here’s an announcement on the Mozilla Blog website.



According to the official announcement, Firefox 5 includes:

more than 1000 improvements and performance enhancements

adds support for more modern web technologies

now supports CSS animation standards

Do Not Track privacy feature now available on Android too

the new Add-on SDK allows local development of add-ons

To install it immediately in Ubuntu rather than waiting for the PPAs to update, you can follow this tutorial I wrote a few days ago. It shows how to install Firefox manually and Flash too.

Download Firefox 5