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Firefox 5 (Aurora 5.0a2) First Look

2011-05-17
hey guys sixteen he was the first look at Firefox five know what Mozilla aims to do was Firefox five and indeed all future versions of Firefox is getting on a much speedier release cycle so stead of waiting six months a year for a major update to Firefox it's going to be very similar to Google Chrome where you get a somewhat moderate update every month two months something like that and the first thing that you will see with this is the new version called Aurora now Aurora is for all intents and purposes like the dev channel on Google Chrome you know it's going to be you're going to get features before everyone else does but on the other hand it's certainly going to be bug year and glitcher so what I do of course this is version 5.0 this is currently the alpha - I want to give you guys a little overview and kind of tell you guys a little bit about what it what it's all about the first thing of course there will be a download I will have a link in the description you can download the Aurora version and they'll also have a beta once they kind of start getting everything in the pipeline of course this is just really starting to come out so this there's no beta just yet but eventually there will be the Aurora which will be like the Deb and you'll be able to do the beta and of course just download the standard Firefox the releases that you always do so what I want to do is give you guys a little overview about the browser now as you probably knows from here it's very similar to Firefox 4 this is the this is the dev build they're not done by any means but there are some key improvements especially in performance I noticed so I was able to run a few tests now keep in mind this is not my full range of tests I didn't have that much time to do everything but I mean my quick testing I didn't notice that Firefox 5 had some pretty significant performance improvements I was when the SunSpider benchmark it actually was a pretty nice jump from Firefox 4 it actually bested Google Chrome the current version 10 they non beta or non-deaf or anything like that so just the standard version of Chrome is actually able to be down the SunSpider benchmark that's pretty impressive and if you take a look at the difference between firefox 4 and 5 and keeping in mind Firefox 5 is not done by any means it will most likely be even faster once it finally comes out it's pretty impressive then moving on to the Peacekeeper benchmark Google Chrome pretty much still stomps firefox but again Firefox 5 does show some pretty nice improvements over Firefox 4 so that's most of the I know there are a couple of smaller things like I'd like to show you guys let me take a look a one little P that I always get annoyed with other browser since I always use Chrome is that when you have like a lot of tabs open and you start to close them well they always resize so like let's say I want to close all these while I just start smashing the close button it just closes but well as soon as I pull my mouse off they will resize so that's just a really small things I noticed with this new and Firefox 5 certainly not a big deal but as you can see they're working on little improvements little you know speed bug fixes all that kind of good stuff so anyway guys that's about it for my first look at Firefox 5 I definitely stay tuned in to the channel once it gets a little bit farther along I will do a new browser test compare it to all the major browsers and all that kind of stuff and if you guys are interested you can go ahead hit the link in the description and download it for yourself
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