Download Mozilla Firefox 5 Final for Windows, Linux and Mac

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Those of you who have been waiting to download the final version of Mozilla’s latest version 5.0 of its Firefox browser will be happy to know that it is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP servers. I have downloaded and installed the latest Firefox v5 final.

UPDATE: Firefox 5 has been officially released on 21st June.

The latest version of Firefox has the following changes, although the final change log will be made public on 21st June, when it is officially launched:

Added support for CSS animations
The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
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.

After downloading Firefox 5, make sure all your plugins are up-to-date here. Adobe Flash has recently released a critical security update. Do ensure that you are running the latest version.

Support and help for Firefox 5 is available here.

Download Links:

Firefox 5 for Windows | Mac | Linux.

UPDATE: Firefox 5 has been officially released and you can download it now from its home page.

Check out the download links for the latest Firefox Final and Firefox Beta in over 70 languages, including English.

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Tangmeister

Curious… Firefox is in that state between the traditional, “AHHHH I CANT BELIEVE THE NEXT VERSION’S OUT! GIMME!” state of software, and the Chrome “Heads up guys, now non-developers have the next version.”

I wonder when FF will have the same status in terms of importance of new version numbers…
http://www.gizmocrazed.com/ liaqat

for an ordinary user, both the versions feels the same!
i feel no differences whatsoever :/
hackerman1

Thanks Andy !

interesting, however take a look at:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0/win32/en-US/index.html

“Thanks for your interest in Firefox 5

We aren’t quite finished qualifying Firefox 5 yet. You should check out the latest Beta.

When we’re all done with Firefox 5 it will show up on Firefox.com. ”

it might be a VERY good idea to wait until it´s OFFICIALY released….
hackerman1

i just installed FF downloaded from the URL given above:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/5.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%205.0.exe

when FF started it showed: “You are now running Firefox Beta”

it´s a BETA-version…

as i said above: “it might be a VERY good idea to wait until it´s OFFICIALLY released….”
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I was able to download and install it and I am clearly running the final version 5. I guess, Mozilla took the downloads off. Will update the post. Thanks!
TheBigOldDog

FF should focus on reducing its memory foot print and plugging all its leaks. It needs vastly improved memory management above all else. A browser gobbling up gigabytes of memory with a handful of pages is just unacceptable.
David.bruce

Please don’t update my firefox automatically to the beta version ok? I can’t afford the various bugs in beta versions. It’s the second time you did this to me since half a year ago I began to use firefox. At least you should give me a choice whether update or not. I have uninstalled firefox and will stay with the small Avant browser for some time. it’s a small browser, not famous but I have the right to stay.
Jim Boyd

@David.bruce If you do not want FF updating automatically, just turn off the automatic updates Tools>options>Advanced>Updates.

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