On June 21, 2010 Mozilla released theconcluding version of Firefox 5 that it started off at the beginningof the year.
Besides, the company also fixed up 10bugs which had cropped up in Firefox 5. It included the one that wasrelated to the browser's handling of the WebGL 3-D. It waspointed out by the Mozilla’s core enemy Microsoft who had pointedit to be hazardous. Mozilla had imposed the deadline for upgradingthe Firefox on June 21, and thus the company has finally released itas per the announced date.

Firefox 4 was launched in March andafter that the company decided to faster its release schedule.Besides, it decided to put the browser on a six-week refreshcycle which would give the programmer requisite time to develop appsaround it. Moreover, as soon as the features would be developed thecompany would add them into its browser. In fact, six-week stime was also enough for the company to find out the problematicareas in the system and amend them as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Mozilla has alsoabjured any allegations of copying Google Chrome. Accusations wereput on Mozilla that it depicted Google’s strategy of fast release.As Mozilla has reduced the time of its development cycle considerablyit has released less new features in Firefox 5.
However, Mozilla has stated that it hasdone a lot of improvements in its system. According to the company,more than 1000 improvements were done in Firefox yet experts believethat most of them were minor bugs and tweaks. One of the majorimprovements done in the browser was the increased support to HTML 5as well as cascading style sheet which is used for animation.Interestingly, Firefox 5’s UI is pretty similar to that of Firefox4.

On the other hand, an important toolthat allowed the users to make changes in the development channelshas been removed from Firefox 5. Besides, it was one of those toolswhich Mozilla had bragged off. According to the firm, the feature wasnot getting considerable audience therefore it was not smart enoughto devote their time and energy to it.

Additionally, no major marketingcampaign has been organized for Firefox 5 by Mozilla. Besides,Firefox 5 is way ahead of Firefox 4 in terms of features and this isthe reason why it is growing in popularity. In addition, to make thebrowser fully secured, the company has corrected numerous flaws inFirefox 3.6 and Firefox 5.

As a matter of fact, the bugs correctedby Mozilla in Firefox 3.6 were of serious nature. Out of 11 bugs, 10were rated critical which means they could have most seriousimplications on the system. On the other hand, 1 of the bug wasclassified as moderate by the company.