Mozilla is actively working on all new builds of its Firefox browser. If in march of this year has been released version of Firefox 4, already today there are held the output of the 8-th version of the popular web browser. In spite of the fact that the final build out at an accelerated pace (Firefox 7 came out only 6 weeks ago), the new version has something to offer.
The most visible change is the new installation process and management of additions. When you first start the browser will show the user a list of installed additions, and those that are not set by the user, and third-party applications, the default will be prompted to turn off. Moreover, if any of the third-party program will attempt to addition to Firefox, the browser will do this only by the permission of the user.
It is also worth noting the changes in the tabs. Their animation improved. For example, when moving the tabs Firefox 8 will show a small semi-transparent window with a thumbnail. Changed and the appearance of the tabs without icons. Finally, a very useful feature was added for those who use immediately weight tabs: in the main browser settings you can select the boot tab only when they are selected by the user. Thanks to this the mass of the background of the tabs from the last session will not be restored automatically in the background and hang in memory, there should seize the responsiveness of the browser. The feature is disabled in the standard.
It is also worth noting that in Firefox 8 appeared possible to search in Twitter in the top search bar, the browser has got support of new technologies HTML5, the updated protocol WebSockets, improved performance and memory management when using HTML5. Firefox supports 8 and the specification of the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which provides control of the boot WebGL-textures from third-party domains and blocking attacks (previously in order to safety loading textures from third-party domains is not allowed). Finally, in the history of the browser (Ctrl+Shift+H) now shows the URLS of visited web sites and downloaded images.
According to Net Applications for October, Firefox currently occupies the second place by popularity in the world (22,5%) , after Internet Explorer (52,6%), but the browser quickly selected the Google Chrome (17,6%), which already may soon displace it in third place.
Exit the next, ninth, version of Firefox promised this year on the eve of catholic Christmas - December 20. It is expected the new simplified graphical interface. in versions for Windows, as well as for other operating systems.
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