FireFox 5 launches, Chrome races 'to life'

 Posted on March 26, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  465 words  |  Trudie Dory

Mozilla has quickly released a complete version of the FireFox 5 browser after a series of beta (Beta) introduced in the past few weeks to compete with Chrome 12 which is taking away market share from FireFox bags. Google responded with the release of Chrome 14 testing.

>>>Firefox 5 launches on June 21

"Fire fox" 5: not impressive!

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Mozilla FireFox web browser 5 - Photo: DownloadCrew

After installing FireFox 5, it is not surprising that users do not realize any special improvements outside of the upgrade from FireFox 3 to FireFox 4. However, Mozilla has made some significant improvements. Notice in FireFox 5, including:

  • The anonymous surfing function " Do Not Track " introduced in FireFox 4 is included in the Tools menu - Options - Privacy .
  • FireFox 5 supports CSS dynamic graphic technology, a new option besides dynamic graphics built from JavaScript. In addition, FireFox 5 is more user-friendly with web standards like HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL and Canvas.
  • The level of system resource savings is more economical than FireFox 4. According to BetaNews test, the RAM memory decreased from 125MB when running with FireFox 4 to 93MB with FireFox 5, even when browsing with multiple tabs (tab ). Performance speed is also about 20% faster, exploiting HTTP connection more effectively.

    • Mozilla paid more attention to the data synchronization function (sync), making it more user-friendly for PC and mobile users. Moreover, a new feature "automatic update add-on" will help users not to worry about the dangerous errors that add-on has or are not compatible with the version of FireFox in use.

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    Synchronize data and automatically update add-ons in FireFox 5 - Photos: Internet

    Readers can download FireFox 5 for operating system versions: Windows | Linux | Mac .

    Chrome 14: a new web-based experience

    Google wants to bring all the user experience on the desktop to the web and browser in Chrome 14, which has just been released for the first time. Accordingly, what desktop applications can do, users can also use it as a web-based application.

    Chrome 14 integrates a task management dialog like the Task Manager in Windows (type chrome: // taksmanager in Chrome 14's address box).

    Although not comparable with the Task Manager, the task management section in Chrome 14 also provides enough information for the currently approved tags, extensions and practical applications along with their system resource consumption as CPU, GPU, RAM .

    Users can easily eliminate components that consume a lot of resources to make the system run sluggishly.

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    Task management dialog in Chrome 14 - Photo: Softpedia

    Readers can download the trial version of Chrome 14.0.794.00 dev . FireFox 5 is not a stable version to use. Readers should use the completed Chrome 12 version or Chrome 13 is in the final stage (Chrome 13.0.782.20 dev).

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