Firefox 4
Mozilla Firefox 4 is a version of the Firefox web browser, released on March 22, 2011. The first beta was made available on July 6, 2010; Release Candidate 2 (a base for the final version) was released on March 18, 2011. It was codenamed Tumucumaque, and was Firefox's last large release cycle. The Mozilla team planned smaller and quicker releases following other browser vendors. The primary goals for this version included improvements in performance, standards support, and user interface.
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| Original author(s) | Mozilla Corporation |
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| Developer(s) | Mozilla Corporation Mozilla Foundation |
| Initial release | March 22, 2011 |
| Final release | 4.0.1
/ April 28, 2011 |
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| Written in | C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL, XBL |
| Engine | Gecko |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Size | 11.9 MB – Windows 26.8 MB – Mac OS X 13.2 MB – Linux |
| Available in | 81 languages |
| Type | Web browser FTP client |
| License | MPL/GNU GPL/GNU LGPL |
| Website | firefox |
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There was one security update in April 2011 (4.0.1) and version 4 of the browser was made obsolete by the release of Firefox 5 in June 2011.
This marked a transition to giving much less weight to major version numbers, with 5 more major version numbers used by December of that year (5, 6, 7, 8, and 9), compared to 4 in nearly a decade of Firefox development (1, 2, 3, 4).