Tuesday, December 20th 2011
Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 9.0, Signs New Search Deal with Google
Open source software supporter Mozilla has today announced two things, the launch of the 9.0 version of Firefox, and the signing of a new search deal with Google. Firefox 9.0 features the Type Inference which boosts JavaScript performance, it brings better theme integration on Mac OS X Lion, and also includes goodies like:
- two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- support for font-stretch
- improved support for text-overflow
- improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- fixes for several stability and security issues
This latest Firefox release is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
As for the updated agreement with Google (which should represent the bulk of Mozilla's revenues), it spans three years and ensures that Google Search remains the default search provider for Firefox.
- two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- support for font-stretch
- improved support for text-overflow
- improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- fixes for several stability and security issues
This latest Firefox release is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
As for the updated agreement with Google (which should represent the bulk of Mozilla's revenues), it spans three years and ensures that Google Search remains the default search provider for Firefox.
18 Comments on Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 9.0, Signs New Search Deal with Google
What the heck are they thinking? (i know the answer already, dont tell me :p ) Its messing with all my plugins every time, so now its 50/50 of which plugins will work and how many that works at the same time. Not to mention many hobby plugin programmers throwing the towel in the ring because they cant keep up, again making more plugins obsolete.
Get a grip mozilla!
With Firefox 8.000xxx, after a BF3 ctd or a rage reset/power off, When I loaded up Firefox, my gfx drivers would crash and my whole computer would freeze up. the only way to fix the problem was to uninstall Firefox...
.....I am now using Firefox 3.6...cos I cant stand IE or Opera.
it is just to gain popularity to the market coz every one says the latest is better
I'm waiting for version 10 next week. :laugh:
EDIT: Just checked again and it detected and installed v9 this time. :)
Although I love Chrome and is my default browser, they're to blame for this.
but it works great.
Ok, so I had this annoying problem with firefox 8 and upgrading to vers. 9 still didn't solve anything...I haven't asked about this till now because I'm usually quite patient about this kinda stuff, but now I would really like this matter to be done with! :mad:
Before you start typing about "about:config" and browser.tabs.warnOnClose, browser.warnOnQuit, browser.showQuitWarning (also browser.warnOnRestart)...I'd like you to know these preferences are already set to true as you can see for yourselfs:
i.imgur.com/AurSV.jpg
i.imgur.com/NSmcy.jpg
What am I missing here? :confused: thanks.