FOLLOW MY BLOG & WRITE IN COMMENTS SO THAT I CAN DO BETTER .. Hey friends please follow TECH2GET on FB
here's the page link:- click

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Firefox 5 Pre Alpha available for Download | Features and Details

When we are busy playing with Firefox 4 Final, Mozilla has already started building foundation for next release Firefox 5. Mozilla officials that roadmap for 2011 is not yet finalized but planed. Firefox 5 Final is expected on June 29th while stable build on April 13.
Reading Conceivably Tech, I found that Firefox 4.2 Pre-Alpha available on Mozilla FTP server for download which is said to be foundation for Firefox 5. May be the time constraints have restricted Mozilla for using version Firefox 4.2 Pre-Alpha instead of Firefox 5.0 Alpha. The date is calculated according to the roadplan of Mozilla.
 Looking inside the Firefox 4.2 alpha, Noticeable change was seen on How Firefox 5 will handle account information on individual websites. The account manager will support multiple accounts through the URL bar and support multiple account sign-ins at the same time.

Firefox 5 is expected to have new interface while the details on the evolution of JavaScript engine will also be announced at a later time.

Firefox 5 Features

  • Simple Sharing
  • animated user interface
  • 50 common tasks flow problem of high priority improvement
  • New asynchronous places
  • Account management
  • Intelligent Bookmarks Manager search function
  • Support for Web applications to install / uninstall
  • Each process with a label, to reduce crash impact.

Firefox 5 Web Platform Technology

  • Hardware acceleration
  • 3D transformation of the CSS
  • Seamless switching full-screen video
  • Increase cameras, video input type
  • Low-power mode
  • Use IndexedDB technology (IndexedDB allows Web applications on your local system for storing large amounts of data quickly retrieve offline)

Gecko Platform Development in Firefox 5

  • To collect performance metrics from the user
  • Document: Information on how to design a common platform for running interactive desktop, mobile or web applications without borders
  • Integrate new user interface for Mac OS X 10.7
  • Integrating new Android 3.0 User Interface
  • Ensure that the JIT compiler compatible with the modern ARM CPU family pack.