Firefox, the browser that has taken the crown from Microsoft’s IE has recently released a full blown release of Firefox4.0 (which had been in beta since June last year) promising faster and safer browsing for everyone. It has been a long year of patches and update for most browsers mainly because holes to get discovered every time a version does come out.

The browser war may be dominated by Firefox but with Chrome, IE and some other players it continues to be anyone’s game. With more and more people using the internet for their everyday computing, browsers have become an integral part of computing in the internet age. Social media, an arena being focused on by Google is still blooming and may be the target of Mozilla for their release of the newer version. Truly, it has been streamlined, having more space for pages and allowing better control over what the user needs and wants.