Firefox 4

Everybody is expecting the new revision of the popular browser a Firefox,

which would be 3.7 version, Mozilla Foundation took a wise decision and released Firefox, whose Beta version is already available. To everybody’s surprise, or at least to the users’ surprise, this version doesn’t seem to be very original at first glance but it is expected to be radically changed before its definite release.

With this new release, Firefox looks forward to stay in the competition against other browsers like Internet Explorer, whose 9 version also promises to be unbeatable. That’s why, Firefox Beta shows, among other new characteristics, a new interface with a sensitive, Chrome-like design but keeping to its original style.

The new arrangement of the elements displays the navigation toolbar underneath, or rather, inside each of the tabs. In this way, Firefox offers a tidier, more fluent navigation experience and makes each tab independent from the rest, as Mozilla explains.

Together with this interesting arrangement of the tabs and the navigation toolbar, Firefox offers a timely possibility of creating ‘app tabs’ for websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc., which will be seen permanently in the browser’s main window. Although this will surely make things easier for thousands of users, there’s a drawback that will hopefully be considered before releasing the definite 4 version: this tabs don’t show the status updates as ‘traditional tabs’ did, so we can’t find out if there were new tweets or new messages in Facebook at first glance.

It must be said that Firefox’s new design can be customized as the traditional view mode, in which the navigation toolbar was above the tabs. In addition to these new characteristics, Firefox is compatible with HTML5 and WebM video standards.

Firefox is getting ready to enter the browsers’ “boxing ring” to flaunt its latest improvements and new characteristics, as well as the ones in the recent 3.6 version. But the interesting features that Firefox has presented so far are not enough to fight this battle, so some of them, such as the app tabs, are expected to be reconsidered before the release of its latest version.

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