Version : 19.0
Operating system: Mac OS X
10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6/10.7/10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel
Mozilla Firefox has undergone an
enormous rebirth over the past two years. Since Firefox 4 debuted in March
2011, the browser has been hell-bent on improvements. These have come in large
part on the rapid-release cycle, which sees a new version of Firefox every six
weeks. Many people like them, but a vocal minority has pooh-poohed the increase
in version numbers. That's hardly a legitimate complaint in a world where
mobile apps also update silently and effectively, but the transition for
Firefox hasn't been an easy one.
As you can see, Firefox is on
version 15 at the time of this review. As a point of comparison, Chrome is
currently on version 21 even though it only launched in 2008. The benefit, of
course, is a browser that is safer and sleeker, with fewer problems because
bugs get fixed on a regular basis.
The Firefox that you can download
now is in the same speed category as its competition; offers many similar
features (stronger in some areas and slightly weaker in others); includes
broad, cross-platform support for hardware acceleration and other "future
Web" tech and standards; and is a must-have for Android users (download
for Android).
Firefox 15's big claim to fame is
locking down memory leaks caused by add-ons, long browsing sessions, and heavy
tab usage. The company released data showing huge gains in recovering memory
with 150 tabs open, so you're likely to see big gains with only 50 tabs.
It's important to point out that
there are four versions of Firefox available at the moment, and this review
only addresses the stable branch, intended for general use. Firefox's other
channels Firefox beta (download for Windows | Mac | Linux); Firefox Aurora,
analogous to Google Chrome's dev channel (download Aurora for Windows | Mac |
Linux); and the bleeding-edge, updated-nightly Firefox Minefield (download for
all versions) are respectively progressively less stable versions of the
browser, and aimed at developers.
MOZILLA FIREFOX 19 FOR MAC
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