Mozilla Firefox 9.0 stable has just released few hours ago. The new release brings Type Inference which significantly improves JavaScript performance.
Firefox 9.0 has the following changes:
- Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
- Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
- Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
- Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
- Added support for font-stretch
- Improved support for text-overflow
- Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
The Firefox Stable PPA has updated for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and 10.10 Maverick, add the ppa and install Firefox 9.0 via:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
For now, it has not yet come in Precise’s repository. Just download from Firefox 9 from:http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
