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Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 now available

It looks like Mozilla has released a new beta of Firefox 3.5 (formerly 3.1):

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta.

Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) Beta 4 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.5.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

This beta is now available in 70 languages - get your local version.

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.

Thanks to Brett H. for the tip.

Published Apr 28 2009, 10:21 PM by pthurrott

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla

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	darkmax said: Got it and running. It seems a bit faster than before. April 28, 2009 8:35 PM
	LandonAB said: As of this morning x-marks wasn't supporting it. Need x-marks to keep my bookmarks synced. April 28, 2009 9:56 PM
	techfan said: I don't know if it's my computer (it's about 5 years old) or Firefox (I think it might be Firefox) but even with a clean install (no addons) if I run the browser, my computer completely freezes and the only way to have access to it is by going a hard boot. IE8 is still my default browser. I think it'll be Chrome that takes the backup browser spot. Firefox is good but I like Chrome better (though Chrome is way too limited feature-wise to be used as an everyday browser, IMO). I might give Firefox another try after I get Windows 7 (on a my computer). April 28, 2009 10:05 PM
	Saucy said: Thanks, but no thanks. April 28, 2009 10:13 PM
	darkmax said: I installed it without any problem. All I can confirm is that Adblock Plus, IE Tab and Download Ststus Bar are all working. This version is definitely faster than IE8. April 28, 2009 11:01 PM
	bettieblu said: Firefox 3.1/3.5 does blow away IE, big time. It blew away Safari as well, until 4.0 came out. Both are faster than IE. That said I have finally come to the conclusion that FF is always broken in some way. FF is the only app to ever crash on my Macbook that I have had since Oct 2007. It does this at least once a day. I have gone back to IE7 on Windows and Safari 4.0 on OS X, they just work. April 28, 2009 11:54 PM
	robertsjoe said: Chrome and Safari are the best browsers out there. Then FF then IE in last place. It's that simple. April 29, 2009 1:42 AM
	simongoldring said: After being a firefox user for about 4 years, I switched to IE8 on Windows 7, mainly for the per-tab process isolation (accidently opening a pdf in firefox wasn't fun) and for the Windows 7 integration features. However, I do wish that if you clicked on the taskbar button while running IE8, your most recently viewed tab came up. April 29, 2009 1:58 AM
	sttevo said: I use Firefox still, but only for the extensions. As soon as there are good replacements for Chrome I'll switch to that. IE8 has been good so far, but I like the simplicity and speed of Chrome. April 29, 2009 6:40 AM
	Dude1313 said: Ad Block Plus= enough said April 29, 2009 7:34 AM
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