Firefox 4 Review
It’s getting hot in here, and I’m not talking about the weather! Mozilla released the newest version of the Firefox web browser on March 22nd. Here are four of the most popular features that Mozilla brings to the desk. After introducing the features, we’ll take a look at Firefox’s competition.
1. Interface
The app tab and panorama are newly added to Firefox 4′s interface. Right click on any open tab and choose to pin it to the browser. This gives that tab a compact, permanent home in your browser to easily access at any time. I would recommend only having 1 or 2 of these app tabs because otherwise it will slow the start-up time of the browser, and that gets really annoying.
Panorama is a way to group tabs and organize your web life. Some people have complained that previous versions of Firefox can look untidy and be painful for your eyes. Now here’s an easy solution for the mess.
2. Customization
Add-ons are famously known to be in relation with Firefox. This is a great concept for the post-modern generation. YOU choose what you want YOUR browser to do for you. It really makes it your own and identifiably matching who you are. And everyone is different! Add persona skins to your browser, and now you can have pink flowers and kitty cats bordering your webmail, news, and social networking sites. Whatever floats your sailboat — with this web browser you’ll have smooth sailing into the sunset.
3. Privacy
Mozilla makes privacy a high priority for Firefox. The “Do Not Track” feature sends a message to sites that you want to opt-out of online behavioral tracking. This feature can be toggled on and off. The one issue with this for now is that it only works with sites that are compatible with the “Do Not Track” feature. We have yet to see what sites will be in league with this idea. For the time being, I like the effort that Mozilla puts out to standardize the privacy of consumer data and web users.
4. Extras for Web Developers
The JägerMonkey Javascript engine makes for faster and higher performance of page loads and web apps/games. There are also some fun things to play with involving HTML5, CSS3, Canvas and SVG.

