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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Officially Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 22 March 2011 at 12:56 PM EDT. 33 Comments

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 has been officially released.

This major update to Firefox doesn't need much of an introduction, but the 4.0 milestone delivers on major performance improvements (up to 6x faster), a new stream-lined interface, Firefox Sync for accessing settings from multiple computers in a secure fashion, a new add-ons manager, HSTS support, greater HTML5 and SVG support, and many other enhancements.

Read more on the Mozilla Blog.

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