Firefox 5 beta Available

Mozilla released the beta version of Firefox 5 under rapid release development cycle and is available for download for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. It seems Firefox is following Google chrome by releasing new versions more rapidly but with less differences compared to the previous versions.

For Now Mozilla development cycle includes 3 main versions of Firefox :

1. Stable version for normal web-surfing.
2. Beta Channel : new features under testing.
3. Aurora channel : Introduces new features.

Also there is a nightly channel which shows the latest Firefox build that are released in the last 24 hours, but these are most likely un-stable.

What’s New in Firefox 5 Beta ?

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

Added support for CSS animations
Added support for switching Firefox development channels
Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
Improved spell checking for some locales
Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users

Firefox 5 is scheduled for a final release on June 21 and Firefox 6 is currently  moved to Aurora channel

Firefox 5 beta- Windows (English)
Firefox 5beta – Linux (English)
Firefox 5 beta- MAC (English)