Firefox Launches New 3.5 Release Candidate (3.5rc3)
June 25th, 2009 at 5:03 PM - Product News by Bryan Chaffin
Firefox launched a new release candidate for the next major update to the browser, version 3.5. Firefox 3.5rc3 includes several new features and other changes from prior releases, including:
- This release candidate is now available in more than 70 languages.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Please note that a release candidate is not a fully supported release -- Firefox calls it a "sneak peak." Stick with the current version (3.0.11 for Mac OS X as of this writing) if you have an aversion to bugs and other beta-software oriented issues.
The new released is based on Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The Mac OS X version is a 17.6MB download.
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