Mozilla Corporation has released an improved version of the popular open source Web browser Firefox, offering more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards. Firefox 3.5, the embodiment of Mozilla’s attempt to “upgrade the Web,” is now available for Windows and Mac.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users.
“One of our biggest challenges is helping people to understand that they have a choice about their Web browser, and how big a difference that choice can make,” Firefox director Mike Beltzner said. “Every release is an opportunity for us to bring improvements directly to our growing user base, but also help many users indirectly by putting pressure on Microsoft to improve their product as well.”
Firefox 3.5 has a range of new features, including a new JavaScript engine for faster Web applications such as Google Docs; the ability to show video built into Web pages without plug-ins; a private browsing mode; fancy downloadable fonts; and geolocation technology that can let Web sites knows where you are. Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors.
It is now available in more than 70 languages, includes a Private Browsing mode. Firefox 3.5 also adds HTML 5 storage abilities to help make Web applications work when offline. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.5 is more than two times faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 and also includes a “private browsing” feature, also called “porn mode,” that allows users to hide their tracks when the option is turned on.
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