Mozilla issues Firefox 4 today-Computing

Mozilla publishes a popular open-source Web browser Firefox, version 4.0.

Mozilla also had, however, to update this weekend to fix two problems that Mozilla Director Mike Beltzner said, "have caused us two very small and very isolated patch in order to better protect users of the Firefox 4."

The opening comes a week after the what revealed the arch-rival Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0, and two weeks after Google released its Chrome browser version 10.

Firefox 4.0 supports Linux distributions, Windows (including XP Professional that does not support Internet Explorer 9) and Mac OS X.

It has the graphics hardware acceleration, better JavaScript performance through a new engine, JägerMonkey, based on WebGL 3D graphics and better compliance with Web standards.

Our early tests show the performance of the Web better compliance with the standards, to 97 per cent from 95% to the Web Standards Project's Acid3 test performance and better JavaScript performance, up to 31% on FutureMark's benchmark browser JavaScript guard, since the last version 3.6.15.

Mozilla Firefox 4 Peacekeeper benchmark is still 57 percent slower than Google Chrome 10 Peacekeepers.

The latest statistics from NetMarketShare browser shows a decline in market share for Firefox on one percent during the January to February period, from 22,7% for 21.7 per cent, which Mozilla will certainly hopes that contact with Firefox 4.

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