Firefox позволит вам серфить быстрее, безопаснее и гораздо более эффективно. Уже более 40 миллионов юзеров выбрали его своим постоянным браузером. У Firefox есть функция импорта избранного и установок из IE и Opera, так что вам не надо будет всё заново настраивать, а просто скачайте, и вы уже можете ощутить всю прелесть данного браузера. Распространяется этот замечательный web-браузер абсолютно бесплатно.

Основные особенности браузера:

• Блокировка всплывающих окон
• Поддержка вкладок (несколько страниц в одном окне)
• Встроенная панель поиска в поисковых машинах и словарях
• Живые закладки - механизм интеграции RSS-потоков
• Широкие возможности по настройке поведения и внешнего вида
• Поддержка множества расширений
• Встроенные инструменты для веб-разработчика
• Автоматическое обновление как самого браузера, так и его расширений (с версии 1.5)
• Отображение контента сразу
• Безопасное хранение паролей для сайтов благодаря возможности задать «мастер-пароль», который шифрует все остальные
• Добавление закладки одним щелчком
• Менеджер паролей
• Улучшенная производительность
• Мгновенная идентификация веб-сайта
• Полноценное масштабирование
• Внешний вид и интеграция с родной платформой
• Умная панель адреса
• И множество других возможностей

What's New in This Release:
Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous version, new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely revised user interface. Please read below for more detailed information about what's new in this version of the release, as well as the known issues.

• Firefox 4 is available in over 80 languages
• Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine that is up to six times faster than Firefox 3.6
• Support for the Do Not Track ("DNT") header that allows users to opt-out of behavioural advertising
• Firefox Sync is included by default, allowing you to securely synchronize between multiple computers and mobile devices
• Certain graphics rendering operations are now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 on Windows XP, Direct3D 10 on Windows Vista and 7, and OpenGL on Mac OS (OpenGL on Linux will be supported in the future)
• Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users
• WebGL is enabled on all platforms that have a capable graphics card with updated drivers
• Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format, hardware accelerated where available
• Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users
• Tabs are now on top by default on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
• The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like)
• Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins
• You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu
• The default homepage design has been refreshed
• Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
• Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
• Additional polish for the Firefox Add-ons Manager
• Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants
• Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions
• Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system
• HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate
• Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
• Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over SSL
• A new feature called Panorama gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped
• An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations
• Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property
• Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation
• New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
• Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions
• CSS Transitions are partially supported
• Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently
• Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs
• More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction
• Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload
• CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history
• New HTML5 parser
• Support for more HTML5 form controls
• Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines
• A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code (used for things like graphics and animations) more efficiently

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