Mozilla's Firefox 4 to be released next week

Mozilla’s Firefox 4 to be released next week

March 18, 2011 11:27 AM PT

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Mozilla’s Firefox 4, the latest iteration of its popular Web browser, is scheduled to be officially released Tuesday, and developers are already planning to launch three more versions later this year in an ambitious gambit to build on popularity for the open-source browser, according to a road map released by Mozilla.

The goal is to regularly update the browser without disrupting longer term projects, Mozilla said.

In July, Mozilla released a beta version of Firefox 4 and later pushed back its official release date from fall 2010 to this year. The new browser features an improved user interface with tabs on top of the URL bar (Mozilla deems this the ‘Awesome Bar’) and additional features such as Switch to Tab, which makes it easier to locate open tabs when pecking out URLs.

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-- Shan Li

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Shan Li

Shan Li covered the retail and restaurant industries for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported on the California economy and the technology sector. A Texas native, she graduated from the business school at New York University, where she decided journalism was much more interesting than a job on Wall Street. She left The Times in 2017.

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