Not sure if this is some kind of a hoax but several Articles and Nes published over the last few days mention of Firefox 5 in Beta stage. Didn't seem to find anything on Mozilla's Site.

What is the real story here? This would be too soon just when Firefox 4 is getting warmed up.

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Right now mozilla has moved over to something similar to three channel system chrome uses . Firefox 4 is stable, beta is a newer version, and aurora is a nightly build - you can equate them to chrome stable, dev and canary builds.

They'll be moving over to a faster major version system as well, i think - firefox 5 is due out for final release on june 21, which is in about a month.

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Yes, there is a Firefox 5 Beta. Check out: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

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Yes Firefox released its new Beta version firefox 5 beta Fix many bugs and The Firefox 5 beta also boasts of performance and stability enhancements and support for the new CSS animation standards

  • Added support for CSS animations
  • Added support for switching Firefox development channels
  • The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
  • 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
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