This is a brand new release!
Built on Gecko 2.0, the browser has the following new features:
- Hardware acceleration of browser windows using Direct3D
- Direct2D rendering on operating systems and hardware that support it
- DirectWrite font rendering on systems that support it
- WebGL 3D graphics, either using native OpenGL (default) or DirectX (via ANGLE)
- HTML5 support
- New Jaegermonkey javascript engine
- Blazingly fast DOM handling
Of course, the well known features from version 3.x are still present, as well:
- Graphical tab previews (on a nice glass pane if you have Windows 7) with search
- Dynamic/downloadable fonts (including WOFF)
- Support for personas and Firefox themes
- Support for Firefox 4 compatible add-ons
- Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plug-ins)
- Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings (either using the migration tool or using Sync)
Since this is a new release, it may be a little less stable than the tried-and-tested 3.x releases, but no major issues have been found thus far.
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