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<title><![CDATA[Firefox 4 available now, a day before official release]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good  news for the Mozilla faithful: The final version of Firefox 4 is now  available for download, a full day ahead of its official March 22  release.The  Firefox update couldna4a4t come soon enough, as the browser has been  getting trounced by Google Chrome for the past two years, both in terms  of speed and features. Chrome is notorious for kick-starting the current  speed obsession among browser makers. And as web applications have  become more complex and increasingly reliant on JavaScript, theya4a4ve also  become increasingly dependent on faster browsers. Now Mozilla finally  has a blazing fast browser to fight back against Chrome.You can download the final Firefox 4 build on Mozillaa4a4s FTP site, or directly for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.Firefox 4 brings with it a completely new interface that, like Chrome and the recently released Internet Explorer 9,  aims for minimalism. Gone are the clunky menus and toolbars of past  Firefox versions, and in their place therea4a4s a Firefox drop-down menu,  tab bar, as well as location and search bars. Firefox 4 is certainly  sleeker than what came before, but ita4a4s surprising that it still looks  less elegant than IE9 or Chrome. Part of that may be due to Mozilla  keeping separate search and location bars &amp;8212' a curious decision since  Chrome has proven you can easily use one bar for both functions.The  browser has also gotten much faster thanks to JaegerMonkey, an  improvement to Firefoxa4a4s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. That means  Firefox 4 will be able to better tackle sites that rely heavily on  Javascript like Facebook and Gmail. In benchmarks of the Firefox 4  Release Candidate (a not-quite final version), Mozillaa4a4s browser still lagged behind the latest version of Chrome, which dovetails with what Ia4a4ve seen of the browser in everyday usage.Mozilla  also added hardware acceleration into Firefox 4, which will use your  computera4a4s video card to speed up webpage rendering. Ita4a4s fully enabled  on the Windows version of Firefox 4, while the Mac version will only get  a few elements accelerated. Hardware acceleration is a feature  Microsoft made sure to add into IE9, and Google is still testing it in  Chrome 10 (although ita4a4s very easy to enable).Another useful addition to Firefox 4 is Tab Groups (a  feature that was originally called Panorama). It gives you a graphical  overview of all of your tabs, similar to Expos in Mac OS X, which you  can then use to gather together tabs in specific groups. You can use Tab  Groups to keep your collection of work tabs separate from your social  media browsing, for example. Ultimately, ita4a4s meant to help you avoid  crowding your tab bar, and it may also remove the need to keep multiple  Firefox windows open (a purpose that tabs were originally meant to  serve).Also, just like Google Chrome, Firefox 4 sports a sync feature that lets you synchronize bookmarks, settings, passwords, open tabs and more.Mozilla is definitely playing catchup here. Firefox 4&amp;'s faster JavaScript engine has been a long time coming, and synchronization is something that Google has been building up for years now in Chrome. But new features like Tab Groups prove that the open source browser maker still has some fight left in it.Via Download SquadNext Story: Andreessen-Horowitz brings enterprise pro Peter Levine on board Previous Story: Intel&amp;'s Atom chip and mobility chief resignsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: browsers, chrome, Firefox, Firefox 4, Internet Explorer, web browsersPeople: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla          Tags: browsers, chrome, Firefox, Firefox 4, Internet Explorer, web browsersPeople: Google, Microsoft, MozillaDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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