5 reasons to upgrade to Firefox 4

Today, after a long and wearisome development of Mozilla team released finally... the twenty-fifth anniversary of Firefox 4 beta !!!

But seriously, they have their betas little tired, honestly. At that time, such as Google like pies bake tirelessly new versions of Chrome, or Microsoft is about his calves "fundamentally new» IE9, Firefox delay becomes catastrophic. However, believing in the promise that "... just about, has recently released the final release", we have installed the latest beta of Firefox 4, and to test it thoroughly. About what we hasten to share with you impressions.

new interface

The first thing that catches your eye - this is a new ofrmlenie. The tabs are now located at the top and can be secured; there was a big orange button, which hides in itself the main menu; links display in the address bar, and many other improvements. The truth every time when describing the design of new products I want to say - "... as a tab on Chrome, the button in Opera ...», and so the list goes on. Yes, Firefox interface largely been secondary, but that does not make it worse. In general, a new kind of browser turned out beautiful, comfortable and quite in keeping with modern trends of simplicity and minimalism. Passed.

expansion

Firefox has always been strong with its many and varied extensions, allows you to configure the browser to suit all tastes. After installing the new version, you'll see a brand new Extension Manager page that is now displayed in a separate tab. Despite the fact that the most popular add-ons are already adapted to the new version of Firefox, you may face the incompatibility of certain elements. However, no doubt that this is temporary. But with the announced possibility of installing add-ons without restarting the browser's something not quite work out - such extensions can literally be counted on the fingers.

Speed

We all understand that the speed of the browser in a real situation depends on many very different factors - from the operating system version and computer configuration and to your speed channel. So clearly and objectively evaluate this parameter is difficult. However, the developers with the release of each new version convince us that speed has increased several times and draw beautiful graphics. Well, believe their word, the more that really the browser as though became more bright. It seems to be ...

Synchronization

Firefox 4 now supports the "cloud" synchronization of bookmarks, passwords, settings, history and tabs. This can be a very useful feature if you're using Firefox on multiple computers or devices based on Android and IOS. It would be great to add to this synchronization of installed extensions and settings, but it is already not bad.

Support for new technologies

Here we come to the most important point, because of which it is possible and necessary to move to a new version of the browser. Modern Internet develops tremendous pace and a modern browser needs to keep up with all the latest trends in this area. And here the developers have tried a hundred percent. First of all is the full support for HTML5, WebM and HD Video, 3D based on WebGL, CSS3 new features full hardware acceleration and more. Despite the fact that these changes are under the hood of the browser and are not as noticeable as the new buttons and accelerate to 3 millisecond processing pages, namely the introduction of advanced technologies brings Firefox forward to a great battle browsers.

Output

As a result of testing the latest beta Firefox, we came to the conclusion that this is a comfortable, stable and beautiful browser. The developers of the Mozilla met our expectations and provided a product which fully complies with the most stringent requirements in terms of security and support of modern technologies and advanced system extensions allows you to configure the program to the needs of virtually any user. So if you use Firefox 3.6, is updated without hesitation, and IE users should see this information and draw the right conclusions.