Firefox 3.5 release today

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-30-2009, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Notes

What’s New in Firefox 3.5

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. Some of the notable features are:

* Available in more than 70 languages.
* Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
* Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
* Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
* The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
* 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: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

Firefox web browser | Features: Faster, more secure & customizable

**Nick R** · 06-30-2009, 11:23 AM

Hehe, I downloaded the RC last night after Wayne Luke recommended it. I was eyeing it for a while and took the plunge last night. And now it's released stable today.

I like it!

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-30-2009, 08:02 PM

I'm still using 2.x

**veenuisthebest** · 06-30-2009, 09:19 PM

I am loving the new 3.5 Firefox. It has fixed almost all the performance issues for me, infact I can experience a significant performance gain as well.

**KevinL** · 07-01-2009, 05:33 AM

I love it. Everything loads faster but it takes sometime to start up.

07-13-2009, 04:15 PM

I just want one thing from this new release and that is the instant page load when you hit the BACK button as in Opera browser. The pages get saved as you move ahead in opera...and anytime you want to hit back, you get it instantly and it doesn't require reloading. I hope this version has that functionality.