The Mozilla folks have been hard at work on the Firefox beta and have released a new version with big enough changes to warrant a new 3.5 version number. The Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 version has the following improvements, according to Mozilla:
- 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 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Please note that this is a beta so it might not be as polished as a full release. Note also that your Firefox add-ons may not be compatible with this new beta. You can download the new version here.
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